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San Bruno uses PG&E pipeline explosion settlement to open new $51 million recreation center

Disabled parking fraud is rampant. Why is Oakland no longer enforcing it?

East Bay grocery stores prices range widely. We compared 10 markets, from Grocery Outlet and Safeway to Berkeley Bowl and Farmer Joe's, to find the best deals

These Silicon Valley power players are backing Trump. Here’s how their political giving has evolved

These Silicon Valley power players are backing Trump. Here’s how their political giving has evolved

Where Tesla sales have fallen the most in California

Where Tesla sales have fallen the most in California

S.F. grocery stores prices range widely. We compared 12 markets, from Grocery Outlet and Safeway to Bi-Rite and Gus's, to find the best deals

The Duongs, the family that owns California Waste Solutions, has donated millions to political campaigns.

If you are entering your junior or senior year of high school and hope to attend a selective college, we have some bad news for you. Getting into top colleges might get a whole lot harder in the next few years, as the number of prime college-age applicants in the U.S. is about to reach a generational peak. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, almost 4.5 million people will be 17 — the typical age for entering senior year — at the beginning of the 2024 and 2025 school years, up from be…

The San Francisco metro area is the seventh best job market for recent college graduates, according to a new analysis by the ADP Research Institute, the research arm of the payroll processing company ADP. The study incorporated data on wages, affordability and the ease of finding a job that required a college degree. The analysis included 55 metro areas, and used the company’s payroll data on four million people aged 20 to 29 at more than 27,000 U.S. employers. The S.F. metro ranks relatively hi…

The number of approved applications to install residential solar panels has plummeted across California. The fourth quarter of 2023 saw about 24,400 total approved applications in the state, compared to 75,800 in 2022, according to a Chronicle analysis. That’s a drop of 68%. The sudden drop in solar panel applications is in large part due to the enactment of a new rate structure for paying solar customers enacted in April 2023. Passed by the California Public Utilities Commission in April 2023,…