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Independent local journalism covering civic decisions, downtown commerce, neighborhood life, and community achievements across Walnut Creek, Rossmoor, Saranap, and Pleasant Hill.
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The network's technology publication: artificial intelligence, computing, science, startups and what technology means for the people and communities of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.
San Francisco Bay Area
Regional investigative reporting and in-depth policy analysis covering housing, transit, environmental resilience, and civic institutions across the nine-county Bay Area.
The East Bay
Connecting the diverse neighborhoods, public policy, shoreline communities, and independent businesses across Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Concord & Clayton
Independent reporting on municipal governance, school districts, small business, and neighborhood culture in Concord and Clayton.
Walnut Creek · Rossmoor · Saranap · Pleasant Hill
Independent local journalism covering civic decisions, downtown commerce, neighborhood life, and community achievements across Walnut Creek, Rossmoor, Saranap, and Pleasant Hill.
Lafayette · Moraga · Orinda
Community-rooted journalism for the three hillside towns of Lamorinda, covering local schools, civic leadership, wildfire preparedness, and neighborhood traditions.
Alamo & Round Hill
Hyperlocal news focused on the unincorporated enclave of Alamo, Round Hill, local schools, neighborhood preservation, and community organizations.
Danville & Blackhawk
Civic reporting, community events, local enterprise, youth sports, and cultural heritage for the Town of Danville and Blackhawk.
San Ramon & Dougherty Valley
Daily reporting on municipal policy, City Center Bishop Ranch, San Ramon Valley schools, and the neighborhoods of Dougherty Valley.
Diablo Valley
Regional perspectives on economic trends, transportation, environmental stewardship, and community life surrounding Mount Diablo.
Dublin · Pleasanton · Livermore
Comprehensive reporting across the innovation and wine corridor of Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore, connecting civic developments, local research, and regional culture.
Napa Valley
Bespoke local reporting for the people, agriculture, culinary culture, riverfront, and civic institutions of the Napa Valley.
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Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, announced his retirement from international soccer after 23 years, six World Cups, 234 appearances, and a men's record 146 international goals—sitting at 985 total career goals as he continues with Al-Nassr—while BC Partners pulled its $300 million rescue plan for LIV Golf and the Los Angeles Rams were scheduled for the NFL's first-ever Thanksgiving Eve game. In culture and consumer news, 85-year-old Bob Dylan exchanged his memoir Chronicles: Volume One for a rosary from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, 'Good Morning America' co-anchors Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos received Hollywood Walk of Fame stars at 6290 Hollywood Boulevard, Navy Federal Credit Union agreed to cancel unauthorized personal loans from January 1, 2023 to January 31, 2025 and pay $250 to qualifying members who file by November 29, and Muskegon's 1892 Hackley Administration Building was listed for $1.2 million after $4 million in stabilization work. Globally, Australia approved an Inpex seabed site near Darwin to store 443 million metric tons of CO2 over 35 years, Kenya weighed five proposals for Mrima Hill niobium and rare earths, I Sell For You launched on-demand phone sales as cart abandonment averages 70.22%, Apolomed unveiled its 8-in-1 HS-910N laser platform, and Trusted Plumber London published £95/hour labor and £595 fixed leak detection rates.
With control of Congress decided but 59 House races still uncalled Wednesday afternoon, razor-thin contests remained in Mississippi—where Democrat Scott Colom led Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith 49% (464,926 votes) to 48.9% (463,788 votes, a 1,138-vote edge) with 96% reporting and no formal state recount law—and in Alaska, where Democrat Mary Peltola led Sen. Dan Sullivan by 626 votes and Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins led the governor's race by 20 points (49.2%) at 74% counted, while Kansas Democrat Cindy Holscher led Ty Masterson by 5,557 votes at 98% counted. Meanwhile, Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper defeated Mark Baisley 60% (1,310,937 votes) to 36% (773,936 votes); Nevada re-elected Democratic Reps. Dina Titus (59.01%), Susie Lee (59.14%), and Steven Horsford (60.5%) while Theresa Benitez-Thompson led District 2 (50.75%) and voters approved Question 6 abortion rights (63.33%, 601,533 votes) and Question 7 voter ID (62.29%, 595,823 votes); Iowa voters passed Amendment 1 with 56.2% to require a two-thirds legislative supermajority to raise its 3.8% flat income tax amid a $1 billion deficit; voters across more than three dozen states decided nearly 150 ballot measures; and Elon Musk's America PAC spent $446 million on the midterms, including $47 million against Texas Senate winner James Talarico (55%).
Democrats flipped at least 29 House seats and seven Senate seats—securing at least 54 of 100 Senate seats and well past the 218 seats needed in the 435-member House to give Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer control of every committee in the 120th Congress—while winning statewide races in Kansas, South Carolina, Texas (their first Texas Senate win in 38 years and defeating three-term Republican Gov. Greg Abbott), Ohio, and Iowa. According to the AP Voter Poll of more than 100,000 voters, consumer prices rose 3.7% over the past 12 months (up from 3% when President Donald Trump began his second term), about 9 in 10 voters cited the cost of living as a crucial or major factor, two-thirds said Trump's policies fueled inflation, and 6 in 10 said artificial intelligence will hurt society. As House Democrats outlined a 100-day affordability agenda, California U.S. Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla urged prioritizing cost-of-living relief over impeachment, while incoming lawmakers—including physician Senators-elect Annie Andrews and Abdul El-Sayed and Representative-elect Richard Pan—prepared to restore enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies after 3 million Americans lost coverage and challenge Medicaid cuts as measles cases topped 4,850.
An influx of late mail ballots and ballot adjudication slowed San Mateo County's election count through 2 a.m. Wednesday, leaving Menlo Park's Measure P trailing 47.8% (3,474 votes) to 52.2% (3,799 votes) over the future of eight downtown parking lots—where three 345-unit affordable housing proposals face $19 million to $45 million funding gaps—while Vamsi Velagapudi led incumbent Drew Combs by nine votes (721 to 712) in District 4. In Santa Clara County, where 337,600 ballots remained unprocessed countywide at 29.6% to 29.7% turnout ahead of a 5 p.m. Thursday update, Campbell Mayor Dan Furtado led District 3 with 62.7% (926 votes) and Davis Fields led District 4 with 67.8% (908 votes); Los Gatos Mayor Rob Moore (23.8%, 4,466 votes), Jeff Suzuki (18.7%, 3,514 votes), and Rob Stump (17.9%, 3,353 votes) held the top three spots; and the Cupertino Together slate of John Tang (18.5%, 4,651 votes), J.R. Fruen (17.1%, 4,293 votes), and Seema Sharma Lindskog (16.5%, 4,136 votes) led Cupertino's council race.
California voters are approving Proposition 42 by a 54% margin with nearly 60% of anticipated ballots counted, enacting a constitutional ban on new personal property and wealth taxes after a $159 million campaign backed by billionaires while rival Proposition 40 trails by 11 points. In congressional races under Governor Gavin Newsom's Proposition 50 redistricting map, California Democrats improved their 2024 margin by 15 percentage points and ousted at least five of the state's nine Republican House members—leaving Republicans Vince Fong (winning with 63%), Tom McClintock (winning with 56%), Ken Calvert (leading Young Kim with 54% in District 40), and Jay Obernolte (leading with 51%)—even as 2028 presidential attention turned to Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff (20% in a San Francisco USC poll alongside Pete Buttigieg at 21% and Newsom at 18%). Meanwhile, Democrat Richard Barrera led Republican Sonja Shaw 57.1% (3,799,472 votes) to 42.9% (2,850,246 votes) for state superintendent with 100% of precincts reporting, and Shasta County elections chief Clint Curtis left his county as the only one among California's 58 counties without completed in-person ballot counts.
San Francisco's Safeway Holiday Ice Rink at Union Square opened Wednesday evening for its 19th season through January 18 with Olympic Gold medalist Brian Boitano, while voters passed Mayor Daniel Lurie's Propositions D, E, and F—backed by $13.8 million in campaign funding—alongside the 15-year Proposition H Muni parcel tax. Across the city, the SF-Marin Food Bank and Amazon extended their home delivery partnership through 2028 to deliver 2.6 million meals to more than 8,000 of the 46,000 households served, building on 156,000 grocery bags already delivered, while Phelan Building LLC defaulted on a $215 million mortgage at 780 Market St. with $192 million owed to AIG. In Bay Area sports, the Golden State Valkyries celebrated their first WNBA championship with an Embarcadero parade after a 19-8 midseason run, the 6-1 San Francisco 49ers acquired DeForest Buckner and welcomed back Nick Bosa ahead of the November 10 trade deadline, and the Golden State Warriors withheld roughly $215,000 per game from Kristaps Porzingis on his $20 million contract.
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