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Alameda County’s relatively slow vote-counting process came under fire Wednesday — as it has in the past — as former Rep. Barbara Lee and ex-Oakland Council Member Loren Taylor were locked in a tight race to be Oakland’s next mayor that won’t be settled before Friday and could take far longer.

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Leaders We Deserve, a left-leaning, youth-led group, is planning to spend $20 million in next year’s midterm elections against incumbent Democrats in safe blue districts — escalating the party’s ongoing tensions over its aging leaders.

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Accidental drug overdose deaths in San Francisco rose for the fourth straight month after showing a promising decline last year.

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Valero Refining Co. has told California regulators that its considering closing its facility in the Bay Area city of Benicia. “We understand the impact that this may have on our employees, business partners, and community, and will continue to work with them through this period.”

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Story updated with statement from the University of California Office of the President. Read the full NOAA budget cut proposal and potential implications:

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@sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social did something that no California Dems likely could: turn out 26,000 people for a weeknight rally in a Republican House district and chart a way forward for an enfeebled Democratic Party, writes political writer Joe Garofoli. 📷: @stephenlamphoto.bsky.social

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A water leak in the ceiling of the Oakland Coliseum DMV field office led staff to uncover extensive vandalism and theft, prompting a months-long closure of the facility, officials announced Tuesday.

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From columnist Emily Hoeven: “I should have realized — following the defacement of a public mural and waves of graffiti near the new Sunset Dunes park along the former Great Highway — that San Franciscans can be astonishingly hostile when public spaces are activated in ways they personally oppose.”

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For years, San Francisco has been compiling a preliminary list of nearly 4,000 concrete buildings at risk of collapsing in a major earthquake. But the list likely has major errors — and now the city wants a more accurate inventory.

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San Francisco’s budget has been on an unstoppable trajectory for the past few years, growing tremendously even as the city has faced serious fiscal challenges.

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Historically, San Francisco arrested very few people for setting up tents on public property and those arrests very rarely landed a person in court. But that changed last summer when the U.S. Supreme Court gave cities broad powers to punish unhoused people for sleeping outside.

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Some of the biggest gains between 2018 and 2024 in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area were in health care and tech jobs, matching national trends.

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With the federal Real ID enforcement deadline less than a month away, the California Department of Motor Vehicles is extending service hours at 18 offices across the state to help ease the rush.

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The long road to resolution in Angi’s killing exemplifies the failure by California’s elected officials and legal community to address a justice system too often plagued by unreasonable delays, legal experts said.

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Hundreds of protesters gathered Saturday afternoon to march from San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza to City Hall in an event aimed at fighting fascism and promoting democracy.

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California’s drinking habits have swung back and forth constantly over the past century, but they appear to have undergone a particularly dramatic shift in the last couple of years, according to a trove of state tax data analyzed by the Chronicle.

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San Francisco city attorneys are working to shutter four Tenderloin corner stores they said have been operating as illegal casinos and trading posts for drugs and stolen merchandise

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From @shiramstein.bsky.social: Congressional Republicans say the benefits of local education control, their end goal with shuttering the U.S. Department of Education, outweighs the risk of states like California using federal money to fund programs with which they disagree.

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The new Great Highway park is a contentious flashpoint of an open space. But when you actually arrive the vibes are immaculate. 10 ways to explore Sunset Dunes, San Francisco’s newest park. My fun guide with @jachristian.bsky.social! 🌁☀️❤️ Gift link!! 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

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New: Congressional Republicans say the benefits of local education control, their end goal with shuttering the U.S. Department of Education, outweighs the risk of states like California using federal money to fund programs with which they disagree. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

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Oaklanders voiced their displeasure with embattled former Mayor Sheng Thao by ousting her in a historic recall last fall. On Tuesday, they must come together to pick her successor.

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The hearing into whether State Farm General can implement a major rate hike to restore its financial stability is finished — but consumers won’t know the answer for weeks.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.

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A huge, upside-down U.S. flag now hangs from a prominent peak at Donner Summit near Truckee.

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A San Francisco law firm and the Bay Area chapter of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights are fighting the Trump administration on cross-coastal deportation efforts as major law firms withdraw from the space.

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A potent animal tranquilizer increasingly reported in illicit drug supplies across the U.S. has made its way to San Francisco.

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Good news for the USWNT is it seems like Catarina Macario is so back | @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

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Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced Thursday that he has charged 12 pro-Palestinian protesters, including eight Stanford students, with felony vandalism and conspiracy in connection with the pre-dawn break-in at Stanford administrative offices on June 5.

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Richard Grenell, interim executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, claimed that every artist who canceled did so because they couldn’t be in the presence of Republicans.

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For decades, developers have been eyeing a vacant 86-acre former quarry in Pacifica wedged between the Pacific Ocean and Highway 1.

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Ye, the musician formerly known as Kanye West, is blaming Taylor Swift for missing out on a huge career milestone.

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Crime in San Francisco plummeted last year at a far faster pace than in other cities of the same size.

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🎙️ON AIR: We're speaking w/ @sfchronicle.com reporters @meganmunce.bsky.social & @susien.bsky.social about California’s home insurance crisis. ❓ Do you have a story about your property being underinsured? Tell us what happened. 📻 Listen:

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U.S. stocks are flying higher after President Donald Trump announced a drop in some of his tariffs, except for China.

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Avelo Airlines will cease its operations at Sonoma County’s airport on May 1, just a year after launching services in the North Bay. The decision comes in the wake of the budget carrier’s recent agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to conduct deportation flights for ICE from Arizona.

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Federal officials have terminated visa eligibility for at least 107 international students across at least a dozen college campuses in California since last week, a move that immigration advocates denounced as an unlawful attempt to intimidate foreign students into leaving the country.

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The stock market has been slouching, and many retail investors are shoveling money into “buying the dip.” Should you join them?

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Amy Gleason, acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, denied responsibility for widespread government layoffs in a message to industry colleagues obtained by the Chronicle.

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The San Francisco Victorian home prominently featured in the opening credits of the beloved sitcoms “Full House” and its spinoff “Fuller House” has officially found a new owner.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a San Francisco federal judge’s order to the Trump administration to reinstate at least 16,000 federal employees who were summarily fired in February.

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The video that ricocheted through the web sent a stern message to people who are defacing Teslas to express outrage at Elon Musk. The implication: Keying a Tesla might seem like a righteous act. But it could get you viral for the wrong reasons.

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The State Bar of California is preparing to close out a series of ethics complaints against San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins without reaching a formal decision on whether she did anything wrong, despite finding evidence that she improperly handled a defendant’s rap sheet.

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The list of the Top 100 restaurants in the Bay Area is now online!

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Rip currents and sneakers waves will pose a threat to Bay Area beachgoers on Monday as a high-pressure storm system builds in from west to east over the state.

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Public safety officials were dispatched to the area nearly 900 times last month, according to an analysis of city data, a 140% increase compared to last March. It was the highest number in the decade of data available.

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