3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (687+ words) East Bay Times Byron Sher, veteran lawmaker who wrote many of California’s landmark environmental laws, dies at 98 Byron Sher, a collegial Stanford University law professor who ran for Palo Alto city council in the 1960s after losing a battle over the…...

11+ hour, 8+ min ago   (722+ words) By Adveith Nair, Sara Gharaibeh, Salma El Wardany and Arsalan Shahla, Bloomberg News Iran plans to formally unveil an agreement on a temporary shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, after a flurry of diplomatic activity including a…...

9+ hour, 52+ min ago   (859+ words) By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and DIDI TANG While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify,…...

15+ hour, 20+ min ago   (196+ words) East Bay Times San Francisco mayor continues momentum, breaking ground with developers on a long-stalled project at Candlestick Point to build 7,200 homes, a hotel, parks, shops and restaurants on former stadium site. Driven by rising world oil prices amid the…...

19+ hour, 50+ min ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (575+ words) By Jim Brunner | The Seattle Times SEATTLE — A new PAC backed by President Donald Trump is reportedly wading into Washington’s hottest congressional race as Republicans try to keep a House majority loyal to the president. No Going Back PAC has…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (379+ words) By Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Skylar Woodhouse | Bloomberg News President Donald Trump said Iran-backed Houthis have asked the U.S. to abstain from targeting the militant group, as a worsening clash with Saudi Arabia inflames tensions in the Middle East. “The Houthis called…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (423+ words) Inflation cooled slightly in the Bay Area in August, but gasoline prices skyrocketed in the region, a government report released Friday shows. The Bay Area inflation rate rose 3.4% over the one-year period that ended in August, less than the 3.8% annual…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (490+ words) The Department of Homeland Security has been quiet about its plans, saying in a statement Wednesday it would make an announcement “at an appropriate time” and that Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador would stay in effect until then. Its…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (576+ words) DHS said in a statement Wednesday that it will announce a decision on El Salvador “at the appropriate time” and that protections would remain in place until then. About 200,000 people from El Salvador have lived in the U.S. since…...