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Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Tacos El Patrón

Polls are open for our 2026 Best of the Bay! Vote here now, and enjoy our Editors’ Picks of our favorite Bay Area things, which we’ll be posting throughout the month and beyond. Mariana Reza and Alberto Pineda opened the first location of Tacos El Patrón in Pleasant...
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Students no longer allowed to accelerate from Math II to honorspre-calculus; math teachers cite...

MHS students are no longer able to accelerate from Integrated Math II (IM 2) to honors pre-calculus, according to assistant principal Sean Anglon in an email interview. In the same email, Anglon mentioned that UC math professors have signed a petition to re-establish the use of SAT in admissions because students arrive
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Glass Pumpkins: A Bay Area Halloween Tradition

Irish and Scottish immigrants to the U.S. brought the tradition of carving scary faces on turnips and placing them in doorways around Halloween to scare away wandering ghosts around 1840. They quickly figured out that it was much easier to carve pumpkins, which are readily abundant in October. Pumpkins were...
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Trash lid won’t close? Bay Area residents face $10 fee

(KRON) — Some Bay Area residents will soon face an extra charge if they stuff too much garbage into their trash bins. Republic Services is notifying customers that beginning November 1, 2026, overfilled black landfill carts will result in a $10 fee per occurrence, according to a notice sent to customers in Contra Costa
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CHP Swarms Bay Bridge Bus Lane as Cheaters Dodge $490 Fines

Drivers approaching the Bay Bridge from the MacArthur Maze have a habit of ducking into the lane reserved for buses, and this month the California Highway Patrol decided to do something more concentrated about it. Working with Caltrans and the Bay Area Toll Authority, CHP has resumed a focused enforcement campaign on t
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FBI suspects Bay Area firefighter may have faked his death after arrest

An Alameda County firefighter was accused of owning child sex abuse material in 2023.
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Beloved Sunnyvale Greek Restaurant Bids Farewell After 17 Years

Agape Grill will close its Sunnyvale location on October 2 after more than 16 years in business. The Greek and Mediterranean cuisine restaurant released the news on social media. While the longtime establishment prepares to close, it also shared details regarding moving to a new location. Agape Grill Announces Final...
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El Niño brings warm waters and unusual fish species to Bay Area

Warmer ocean temperatures associated with El Niño are bringing unusual numbers of fish species into Bay Area waters, according to fishermen and marine scientists who say they are seeing large concentrations of bonito and Pacific bluefin tuna in areas where they are not commonly found.
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California may see dreaded ‘perfect storm’ at terrible time: Thanksgiving and Christmas

King tides in California will be extremely high during the Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks. A simultaneous storm could wreak havoc on transportation and push the tides to record territory.
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Kaiser lays off 147 employees in California

Kaiser Permanente will layoff 147 business and administrative employees across California in November, the health giant said. The job cuts include 16 different Kaiser locations in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside and Alameda counties, including 22 in Pleasanton and 12 in Oakland, according to a state employmen

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