As Waves Pound Pacifica, Surfers Pitch a Reef to Defend the Shore
Pacifica surfers hope that an artificial reef could slow waves, widen beaches, fight erosion and create an epic surf spot.
San José State Professor Fired Over Campus Gaza Protests To Win Back Job
Sang Hea Kil is one of the first full-time, tenured professors to be fired from a public U.S. university in…
California Gave Every Student in Prison a Laptop. How Community Colleges Are Using Them
California prisons have given 30,000 laptops to incarcerated students. Inmates say using technology prepares them to enter the workforce.
LA Mayor’s Race May Become a ‘Slugfest’ Between Former Allies
Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman both call themselves progressive Democrats, but they will need to draw sharper…
New Commission Takes Aim at California’s Broken Public Defense System
California is one of just two states that provides no money for the basic defense of poor people accused of…
5 Things to Know About California’s New Billionaire Tax Measure
A healthcare workers union is pushing a one-time 5% tax on the state's roughly 200 billionaires to offset federal Medicaid…
3 Ways California Could Speed Up Vote Counting
The state’s pace of ballot counting in the June primary once again drew national criticism. Here are three ideas that…
Bay Area Cities Ask US Judge to Block Trump From Cutting Funds Over DEI, Immigration
Santa Clara, Redwood City and Santa Cruz have sued for a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from cutting off or…
CSU Workers Disrupt Bargaining at San Francisco State as Contract Deadline Looms
As California State University workers juggle negotiations over multiple contracts statewide, unionized employees at San Francisco State disrupted bargaining, demanding…
Silicon Valley Spent Millions on California’s Primaries with Mixed Results
California, a state viewed as more receptive to the tech industry, served as an early test for how AI money…