6+ hour, 53+ min ago   (970+ words) Byron Sher, a collegial Stanford University law professor who ran for Palo Alto city council in the 1960s after losing a battle over the widening of a local street, then rose to the state Legislature, writing many of California’s landmark environmental…...

14+ hour, 7+ min ago   (1424+ words) The mismatch is striking. On one side, warnings of existential risk, maybe a 10% chance of the end of civilization. On the other, government paralysis. The drumbeat about unpredictable, out-of-control artificial intelligence agents increased dramatically in the past several weeks. Washington…...

10+ hour, 45+ min ago   (855+ words) By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and DIDI TANG While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify,…...

14+ hour, 7+ min ago   (722+ words) By Adveith Nair, Sara Gharaibeh, Salma El Wardany and Arsalan Shahla, Bloomberg News Iran plans to formally unveil an agreement on a temporary shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, after a flurry of diplomatic activity including a…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (223+ words) The Mercury News San Francisco mayor continues momentum, breaking ground with developers on a long-stalled project at Candlestick Point to build 7,200 homes, a hotel, parks, shops and restaurants on former stadium site. Driven by rising world oil prices amid the…...

23+ hour, 13+ min ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (423+ words) Inflation cooled slightly in the Bay Area in August, but gasoline prices skyrocketed in the region, a government report released Friday shows. The Bay Area inflation rate rose 3.4% over the one-year period that ended in August, less than the 3.8% annual…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (457+ words) A federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt construction on a planned detention facility in Gilroy after attorneys for the state of California and Santa Clara County sued to block it on environmental grounds. Judge Eumi K. Lee…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (308+ words) At the end of that tragic day on Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren and other lawmakers informally gathered on the steps of the nation’s Capitol then someone in the group began singing, “God Bless America,” the San Jose congresswoman vividly recalled…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (559+ words) A federal appeals court has taken the unusual step of steering a class-action case to the California Supreme Court, saying the state high court is best suited to resolve the dispute. The case involves past and current members of the…...