New UC Berkeley and national reports show California’s huge GDP sits beside rising cost‑adjusted poverty and out‑migration. Policy choices about building and permitting are central to the fix.

Fremont approved Sterling Organization's plan to convert the 11‑acre former Fry’s at 43800 Osgood Road into roughly 144,000 sq ft of industrial space. The move reflects surging demand for power‑ready Bay Area manufacturing sites.

A handful of surprising bargains showed up around the week of May 4 in the Santa Clara market, including a six‑bedroom Sunnyvale closing at $2.825M and several turn‑key homes that sold below neighborhood norms.

San Mateo County launched temporary World Cup text alerts and recommends registering with SMC Alert for transit and safety updates.

A bentonite‑laden drilling slurry turned stretches of Redwood Creek milky and reached the South Fork Eel River. State agencies and fishery officers are investigating where thousands of gallons of return fluid were placed and who’s responsible.

Investors are touring IBM’s 687‑acre Almaden campus in south San Jose, weighing a plan that would keep a small industrial core while preserving most of the hillsides as open space.

Bloom & Vine, from the team behind Mian, has opened on Castro Street with Peking duck carved hourly, Shanghai‑style dumplings and seasonal cocktails.

A Santa Rosa maker and national data show small Bay Area firms are pausing hiring as investor caution and new benefit work rules collide.

Multi‑agency crews pulled a person from rising surf near Bonny Doon — the fifth ocean rescue in about a month along a one‑mile stretch from Yellow Bank to Bonny Doon Beach.

San Mateo County deputies say CSAM found at a hotel led to a multi‑state probe and the arrest of an Arizona man. Investigators say thousands of images were uncovered.

San Jose will hit the mid-90s Thursday under a Heat Advisory and active fire-weather warnings. Coastal flooding and dangerous rip currents are possible tonight.

Microsoft broke ground Wednesday on a long‑planned Alviso data center campus, a move city leaders framed around recycled‑water cooling and infrastructure work.

A body was discovered at a San Jose waste facility on June 10; authorities are investigating and have released few details.