Bay Area gas water heater ban delayed, retooled draft adds exemptions
Bay Area plan to phase out new gas water heaters delayed and exemptions broadened due to concerns about sudden disruptions families face when heaters fail. A Bay Area plan by regional air regulators to phase out new gas water heaters is no longer moving forward on its original timeline, as the Vallejo Times-Herald repo
Fire destroys house, displaces residents in Fremont
Crews were able to control the flames after about 45 minutes.
Popular California French restaurant chain closes all locations after more than 30 years
For decades, Left Bank Brasserie brought a taste of Paris to the San Francisco Bay Area, serving French classics in bustling neighborhood dining rooms. Now, the beloved restaurant chain has…
Meet the ‘Merfolk’ Frolicking in Northern California’s Pools and Swimming Holes
This story is part of Finding Your People, a series celebrating the Bay Area’s meetups and subcultures that bring people together IRL in an increasingly online world. In a swimming hole called the Garden of Eden in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Tara Dimaggio swims around in her iridescent silicone tail. She finds peace in
Review: 80-year-old classic rock legend performs rare Bay Area concert
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Doors were the ultimate L.A. band, lighting the world on fire with equally psychedelic and poetic tales spun by a magnetic lead singer with Hollywood matinee idol looks. Despite that well-cemented geographic connection, however, the band’s legendary guitarist — Robby Krieger — does have...
This 30-year-old Bay Area restaurant in a historic train depot has closed
Vallemar Station, which served steaks and seafood from a historic train depot on Highway 1 for three decades, has closed. Here are other restaurants that shuttered last month.
In California’s richest town, the home alarms are usually false. But the cost is...
Every year, more than a thousand home security systems go off in the ultrawealthy Bay Area suburb of Atherton. Almost all of them are false alarms. At a City Council meeting this spring, Atherton Police Chief Steven McCulley said his department spends about $70,000 a year responding to residential alarms, sending pairs
This Bay Area ‘Turn of the Screw’ is opera at its most chilling
West Edge Opera’s production in Oakland delivers a haunting, cinematic take on Benjamin Britten’s gothic thriller.
Jasmine Kamboj: Patient Navigation Is a Critical Component of Cancer Care
Jasmine Kamboj, Physician at Mayo Clinic Health System, Podcast Editor and Host of the ‘Empowering Oncologists’ podcast at OncoDaily, shared on X:. “Thanks, my dear friend Dr Anjali Sibley, MD, MPH, of Stanford University School of Medicine, for your time and insights. In this episode of Empowering Oncologists...
Inside the Luxury Robotaxi Uber, Lucid and Nuro Are Testing
Self-driving vehicles have become a common sight in the San Francisco Bay Area, and there are more companies looking to deploy their autonomous vehicles to public riders in the coming months. Earlier this year, ride-hailing giant Uber, electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors and autonomous vehicle company Nuro unveiled the

















