Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera arrives at the Orpheum on May 28 in a refreshed touring production that runs through June 21. Tickets are on sale now.

A Bay Area News Group review found Mayor Matt Mahan missed seven of 19 San Jose council sessions while campaigning for governor. The absences include regional board meetings as the June 2 primary nears.

An Alameda County jury convicted James Wheeler in the May 2023 Emeryville killing of Dexter Appleby. Sentencing is scheduled for June 10, 2026.

Gov. Newsom signed an executive order directing California to study AI‑driven job disruption, from WARN updates to severance, training and a public dashboard.

Kawasaki and Nvidia are reportedly lining up a San Jose robotics R&D hub to test medical and mobility robots with partners including Microsoft and Fujitsu.

Elim Chan will be the San Francisco Symphony’s first woman music director. She becomes music director-designate next month and takes the post fully in September 2027.

More than 400 Planned Parenthood Mar Monte clinicians and nurses voted to form a union with SEIU Local 521, organizers said. The unit aims to protect staffing and patient care amid funding uncertainty.

PAUSD associate superintendent Dr. Guillermo Lopez accepted an offer to be Azusa Unified’s next superintendent and will depart June 30, pending a June 16 board vote.

An 8‑year‑old’s death in East San Jose has reignited demands for urgent change inside the county’s child‑welfare agency. Community members and social workers want action now.

Antisemitic graffiti and other hateful symbols were found inside a campus facility at an East San Jose elementary after a weekend break‑in, prompting an investigation and alarm among families.

Pleasanton’s Alternate Response Unit won an Alameda County EMS award after hundreds of evaluations and a drop in student psychiatric holds.

Supervisors set a proposed renewal of Measure M — the county’s one‑eighth‑cent parks sales tax — for the November ballot, preserving roughly $15.5M a year for parks and wildfire work.

A developer payment tied to VTA land has cleared the way for a 10‑story, 195‑unit affordable tower at 1565 Mabury Road in Berryessa. Financing mixes Citibank bonds, state funds and local loans.