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Some Bay Area Universities Reach Deal to End Encampments, but Students Say Their Fight Continues
Many of the students who packed up their tents after making deals with university administrations have moved on to what they consider to be the next arena — the state bodies that govern the UC and CSU systems.

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After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms
A middle-aged Latino man with a hat sits on a bus.
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At the California GOP Convention, Optimism About November
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UC Santa Cruz Academic Workers to Strike Over University's Treatment of Pro-Palestinian Protesters
Two college-age students hold up signs that say 'Divest' and 'stop bombing Gaza.'
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California Wants Cities to Plan For More Housing. Cities Say the Rules Are Unclear
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California Deficit Forces Lawmakers to Shelve Bills on Psychedelic Therapy, Reparations
After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms
A middle-aged Latino man with a hat sits on a bus.
Newsom Says California Water Tunnel Will Cost $20 Billion. Officials and Experts Say It's Worth It
Californians Urged to Avoid Raw Milk Amid Bird Flu Outbreak on Dairy Farms
Gallons of raw milk in jugs inside a refrigerator.
The San Francisco Couple Whose Lifelong Love Changed America
A white bespectacled woman wearing a checked dress smiles warmly at another white woman as they sit close together on a couch. A wall lined with books is behind them.
A Battle Between Science and Religion, With Galileo Caught in the Middle
Two New Novels Investigate What Makes Magic, What Is Real and Imagined
Two book covers lay side by side. The one on the left features the face of a statue facing up from the ground in a garden. The one on the right shows an old photograph of a woman with long hair sitting in a car driver's seat.

Housing Affordability

California Wants Cities to Plan For More Housing. Cities Say the Rules Are Unclear

The state has set strict standards for how cities have to plan for more housing. A new audit seeks to make sure those standards are clear enough for cities to actually follow.
A BART train above two streets intersecting

Displacing People for 'Progress' — the Origins of BART

Back in the '60s, BART was just a plan in the making. And located through its path were communities of mostly lower-income people of color. But thanks to a legal tool known as eminent domain, many in that community were forced to sell their homes or face eviction.

San Francisco Homelessness Up 7% Despite Decline in Street Camping

The one-night snapshot in San Francisco found that the number of people sleeping in tents and on sidewalks has decreased while the number of unhoused people increased.

California Forever Says 12 Start-Ups Will Open Workplaces in Its New City

California Forever promises to add 15,000 jobs to Solano County if voters approve its plan to build a new city from scratch in November. Twelve companies have pledged their support for the plan and to build factories and offices there.

Immigration

A middle-aged Latino man with a hat sits on a bus.

After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms

Construction worker Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar is still fighting mysterious symptoms after emerging from a 3-month coma and going blind in his left eye. His experience is just one example of the devastating impact that COVID continues to have on Latinx communities in San Francisco.
A Latino woman leans against a fence.

'Political Football:' Future Uncertain for Program Reuniting Migrant Families

The little-known Central American Minors program has started, stopped and started again under successive presidential administrations.

Half Moon Bay Farmworker Housing Gains Approval After Push by Newsom

The governor urged the planning commission to approve the 40-unit project, a little over a year after a mass shooting on two farms revealed deplorable conditions for farmworkers.

Key California Ag Giant and United Farm Workers Clash Amid Union-Drive Efforts

In California, a conflict has emerged between the Wonderful Co. and the United Farm Workers over worker organization under a new labor law. Since its enactment, four groups of farm laborers, including those from Wonderful Nurseries in Wasco, have sought to unionize.

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Some Bay Area Universities Reach Deal to End Encampments, but Students Say Their Fight Continues

Many of the students who packed up their tents after making deals with university administrations have moved on to what they consider to be the next arena — the state bodies that govern the UC and CSU systems.
A middle-aged Latino man with a hat sits on a bus.

After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Long COVID Symptoms

Construction worker Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar is still fighting mysterious symptoms after emerging from a 3-month coma and going blind in his left eye. His experience is just one example of the devastating impact that COVID continues to have on Latinx communities in San Francisco.

At the California GOP Convention, Optimism About November

Two college-age students hold up signs that say 'Divest' and 'stop bombing Gaza.'

UC Santa Cruz Academic Workers to Strike Over University's Treatment of Pro-Palestinian Protesters

The move, which UC officials call unlawful, comes after workers across the UC system authorized their union to call for 'rolling' strikes, alleging unfair labor practices.

California Wants Cities to Plan For More Housing. Cities Say the Rules Are Unclear

The state has set strict standards for how cities have to plan for more housing. A new audit seeks to make sure those standards are clear enough for cities to actually follow.

California Deficit Forces Lawmakers to Shelve Bills on Psychedelic Therapy, Reparations

The state’s multibillion-dollar shortfall shapes which spending bills survived the ‘suspense file’ hearings by the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees.
A watercolor drawing shows a white man on the witness stand in a courtroom with his head in his hands. A female judge in a black robe looks on, and another woman stands facing the man.

David DePape Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Attack on Nancy Pelosi's Husband

The man who was convicted of the attempted kidnapping of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and of violently assaulting her husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced in federal court on Friday.

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