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.

Napa police are investigating the death of a 13‑month‑old girl after she was taken to Queen of the Valley and pronounced dead. Detectives are asking the public for tips.

Scott Sanborn bought 88 Kearny last year; now investors are circling the FiDi tower.

Beijing‑born Cotti Coffee is opening two San Francisco locations, including a Financial District site at 99 Drumm Street. The fast‑growing chain uses heavy promotions and app‑first ordering.

With downtown vacancy still a problem, Sacramento is weighing San Francisco’s Vacant to Vibrant pop-up model — free rent, grants and city help — as a quick test of what might revive retail. The idea is simple but not cheap.