San Jose will offer a yearlong business tax amnesty starting Jan. 1, 2026, waiving penalties and interest and aiming to recover roughly $3.1M while re‑registering lapsed businesses.

A federal judge preliminarily approved a settlement forcing Aetna to expand fertility coverage for same‑sex couples and setting up claims for Californians who were denied benefits.

Planetary Ventures sold a 1.45-acre Sunnyvale parcel at 494 S. Bernardo Ave. to an affiliate of California Communities and Mozart Development for about $15.5M, filings show.

Berkeley’s long-running food pantry will stop distributing groceries at the end of January after merger talks collapsed, leaving volunteers racing to fill the gap.

Trian and General Catalyst have agreed to buy Janus Henderson for about $7.4B at $49 a share, keeping CEO Ali Dibadj and the firm's London and Denver hubs intact.

A major medical emergency briefly closed Fruitvale BART Monday morning, halting Green Line trains and prompting transfers and a bus bridge.

Alphabet agreed to buy Intersect Power for $4.75 billion to secure clean energy and speed new data center buildouts, while some Texas and California assets remain independent.

A wildfire was reported Dec. 21 in the Panoche area of San Benito County; officials say it’s burning on private land and containment details were not available.

San Francisco State is offering voluntary buyouts to most tenured and tenure‑track faculty, with severance up to $110,000 and application windows this winter and spring.

PG&E is working to fully restore power in San Francisco by Monday 2 p.m. after an outage impacted around 130,000 customers. No injuries reported, and support is provided to the community.

Seventeen people were arrested at the Great Mall in a multi-agency sweep that returned about $3,200 in stolen goods.

A 55‑year‑old swimmer went missing off Lovers Point on Sunday; multiple agencies searched, and beaches were closed amid an unconfirmed shark sighting.

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