June 12, 2022 Extremists Threaten Violence at LGTBQ Children’s Story Hour at East Bay Library By Bay City News Men made homophobic and transphobic remarks against a member of the LGTBQ+ community who was hosting the June 11 event at the San Lorenzo Library. Read More 3
April 7, 2022 DISH Network to Pay $5.5M for Dumping Hazardous Waste in Bay Area Landfills By Keith Burbank For years, DISH carelessly disposed of and sent hazardous waste to local landfills. Read More 4
March 14, 2022 Silicon Valley Unemployment Rate Increase in January Tied to Covid Cases By Bay City News Total employment in the region is up nearly 171,000 since April 2020. Read More 2
December 16, 2021 State Mask Mandate Holds in Santa Clara County, but Not in Five Others By Bay City News Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, Alameda, and Sonoma counties said their rules won't change, despite the month long statewide mandate that went into effect Wednesday morning. Read More 6
April 26, 2021 Bay Area Health Officers: Safe to get Johnson & Johnson Vaccine By Bay City News There have been 15 confirmed cases of the rare clotting event among nearly 8 million total doses administered in the U.S. All were women. Read More 1
April 18, 2021 All California Adults Can Get a Vaccine. Now to Find One By Vindu Goel The vaccine rollout has been chaotic, according to news reports and hundreds of emails sent by The New York Times' California Today readers. Read More 0
April 14, 2021 Santa Clara and 7 Other Bay Area Counties Pause J&J Vaccines Amid Blood Clot Concerns By Eli Walsh, Bay City News The state’s Department of Public Health issued a statement Tuesday urging a temporary pause on the vaccine’s administration. Read More 0
February 10, 2021 California’s First South African Coronavirus Strain Detected in Two Bay Area Counties By Silicon Valley Newsroom The new variation was reported in Santa Clara and Alameda counties, health officials announced Wednesday. Read More 0
January 6, 2021 Opinion: Google Unionization Marks a Watershed Moment for Labor Rights in Silicon Valley By Nicholas Barron At last, a sustained labor movement geared toward tech seems to be gaining real traction here in the Silicon Valley. Read More 3
January 4, 2021 Bay Area Public Schools Build Community Wireless Networks to Bridge the Digital Divide By Ali Tadayon Districts throughout California are replacing hotspots for a more reliable, long-term alternative. Read More 1
December 21, 2020 Charges Filed in 32-Year-Old Kidnapping, Murder By Bay City News David Misch is currently in Santa Rita Jail awaiting trial in a separate double murder case and has been in prison since 1989. Read More 2
December 7, 2020 New Bay Area-Wide Stay-at-Home Order Now in Effect By Bay City News Retail and shopping centers now have indoor operations permitted at 20 percent capacity and no eating or drinking in stores. Read More 3
December 4, 2020 Santa Clara Among Five Counties to Issue Stay-at-Home Order By Eli Walsh, Bay City News The order pre-empts the state’s stay-at-home order, which Gov. Gavin Newsom formally announced Thursday, as hospitalizations surge. Read More 11
November 19, 2020 Apple to Pay Santa Clara County $4.1 Million as Part of Multi-State ‘Batterygate’ Settlement By Keith Burbank, Bay City News Apple, which is headquartered in Cupertino, allegedly made misrepresentations about the batteries in some of its iPhones a few years ago. Read More 0
November 15, 2020 Women Workers in Santa Clara Co. Fare Worse Than You Think By Laurence Du Sault, CalMatters A new index that ranks women’s well-being in all California counties shows South Bay women are the most likely to work low wage jobs in the state. Read More 7
November 6, 2020 Bay Area Election Officials Say They Prefer Early Voting By Tony Hicks, Bay City News Statewide, more than 11.2 million voters—at least 2.7 million in the San Francisco Bay Area—cast ballots before Election Day. Read More 2