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California firefighters make significant progress against wildfire east of San Francisco Bay

California’s largest wildfire so far this year has been significantly surrounded after blackening a swath of hilly grasslands between San Francisco Bay and the Central Valley

The Independent UK

Sierra Nevada records snowiest day of the season from a brief but potent storm

A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.

WEKU

Maritime Burglars Terrorizing San Francisco Bay Residents Arrested

Three maritime burglars arrested in San Francisco Bay after targeting boats and ships. Residents can now feel safer in the picturesque surroundings.

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Unthanksgiving Day: A celebration of Indigenous resistance to colonialism, held yearly at Alcatraz

Each year on the fourth Thursday of November, when many people start to take stock of the marathon day of cooking ahead, Indigenous people from diverse tribes and nations gather at sunrise in San Francisco Bay.

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Video reveals nail-biting near-miss between swimmers and a cargo ship in San Francisco Bay

A massive ship ploughs through a group of open water swimmers near Alcatraz

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Body of missing Netflix engineer Yohanes Kidane found in San Francisco Bay

His death was determined to be a suicide, the coroner wrote

The Independent UK

San Quentin — California’s oldest prison — executed hundreds from death row over decades

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — San Quentin State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility overlooking San Francisco Bay that housed the nation’s largest death row and was built in 1852, making it California’s oldest prison.

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California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison, a facility in the San Francisco Bay Area known for maintaining the highest number of prisoners on death row in the country

The Independent UK

Tesla fatal crash with fire truck draws US regulator inquiry

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asked Tesla Inc. for more information about one of its vehicles colliding with a fire truck in a fatal crash in the San Francisco Bay area.

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With fake paperwork and a roguish attitude, he made the San Francisco Bay his gallery

For decades, small sculptures would pop up along the San Francisco shoreline: whimsical sculptures of biplanes, like the Red Baron, perched on pier pilings. This is the story of the man behind them.

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George Skelton: Uncaptured water isn't wasted. But more could be stored for a non-rainy day

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A gazillion gallons of stormwater have been rampaging down rivers into the sea. But that uncaptured bounty hasn't been "wasted."

Los Angeles Times

The famous Bay Bridge lights may soon go dark, unless a bunch of millionaires step in

For nearly 10 years, the cascade of lights along the Bay Bridge has illuminated the San Francisco Bay. The public art installation, expected to be removed after just a few years, has become a fixture.

Los Angeles Times

California braces for more storms and flooding as 300,000 left without power

California braced for more stormy weather with rain sweeping into the northern part the state and the San Francisco Bay area, preceding a series of powerful incoming Pacific storms and raising the potential for road flooding, rising rivers and mudslides on soils already saturated after days of rain.

France 24

California braces for more storms as thousands are still without power

California braced for more stormy weather as rain began to sweep into the northern part the state and the San Francisco Bay area, raising the potential for road flooding, rising rivers and mudslides.

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NHTSA Probing Tesla For Two More Driver Assistance System-Related Crashes

One of these incidents resulted in an eight car pileup on the San Francisco Bay bridge in November.

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The perfect day trip to Bay Area's Emeryville, from restaurants to murals and Pixar

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In the 1960s, as if directed by a single frequency, people began arriving at Emeryville’s tidal mudflats for an extremely strange project. Using driftwood, scrap metal, broken glass and moth-holed fabric, they erected structures resembling totem poles and spacecraft, a crooked windmill and a Trojan Horse…

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Thousands of dead fish wash up in Oakland lake to create a putrid mess

Experts, concerned about the algae bloom that is turning the water to brown muck, say the die-off is ‘like losing giant redwoods’

Chicago Tribune

Recovered quadriplegic from Chicago prepares to swim in San Francisco Bay to raise awareness of paralysis. ‘Doesn’t surprise me a bit,’ says mom

CHICAGO — From the beach where he swims on Lake Michigan, Rob Heitz can point out the green facade of the rehabilitation hospital where he began his recovery journey after being paralyzed from the neck down 19 years ago.

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw loses her mind – and her memory – in Apple TV’s ‘Surface’

A botched suicide in the San Francisco Bay leaves a woman with no memories. Where do you go from there?

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Moving sea otters up the Northern California and Oregon coast — and maybe into San Francisco Bay — is feasible, federal government concludes

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Relocating sea otters to places in Northern California and Oregon where they haven’t lived for generations, including possibly using helicopter rides to move a few dozen from the Monterey Bay area into San Francisco Bay, is feasible and could help expand populations of the endangered marine…

Los Angeles Times

Dramatic new 6th Street Bridge opens, delivering a ‘love letter’ to Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — The new 6th Street Viaduct crosses more industry than water, spanning a scruffy flat of lofts, warehouses and rail lines. It does not soar over the East River or gild the windswept entrance to San Francisco Bay.

The Independent UK

US marshals release sketches of three men who escaped from Alcatraz in the 1960s and could still be at large

Frank Morris, as well as brothers Clarence and John Anglin, escaped from the famed, now-defunct island prison in San Francisco Bay, on 11 June, 1962

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Movie review: 'I'm Charlie Walker' should have been documentary instead

It’s never a good thing when the postscript to a film based on a true story is more interesting than the actual movie itself. This is unfortunately the case with Patrick Gilles’ “I’m Charlie Walker,” a biopic about an enterprising Black trucker who won a lucrative contract to help clean…

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What it’s like to visit San Francisco now

At tables overlooking the San Francisco Bay on a recent, unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon, diners slurped down oysters, cut into crepes, and shared bottles of rosé chilling on ice. The stands of the Ferry Plaza’s weekend farmer’s market teemed with fresh artichokes, leeks, and oranges; the empanada vendor was sold…

The Independent UK

Workers go on strike at California refinery owned by Chevron

More than 500 workers at a Chevron Corp. refinery in the San Francisco Bay area are on strike because of a contract dispute

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