13+ hour, 21+ 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…...

1+ day, 5+ hour 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…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (361+ words) UC Riverside scientists can’t tell us when a major earthquake will hit. But they’ve developed a new technique to predict where. In a paper published this summer in Geophysical Research Letters, UCR geophysicists Gareth Funning and Axel Periollat described how…...

2+ day, 13+ 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…...

4+ day, 2+ 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, 19+ 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…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (498+ words) By MEG KINNARD and GARY FIELDS, Associated Press Bunch said in a news release Tuesday that he was departing the position he had held since 2019 “with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude.” The Smithsonian said he would leave the post…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (127+ words) East Bay Times 51-year-old engineer who started at Apple in 2001 as a product designer and helped oversee work on the iPad, iPods and the Apple Watch becomes CEO of the Cupertino tech giant, succeeding Tim Cook. PG&E CEO loses…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (665+ words) Re: “Meta agrees to limits for kids” (Page A1, Aug. 27). The Child Abuse Prevention Council supports upcoming changes to social media by Meta resulting from their settlement agreement with 47 states and other territories. These social media protections for children are long…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (576+ words) Bessent said that getting even 19 countries to agree to take on the problem was “incredible” and shows “the sheer the enormity of the problem.” Bessent spoke after a two-day meeting of the 20 countries in Asheville, N.C. Bessent said earlier…...