In the last hour of Monday night, following nearly three hours of passionate public comments, the San Rafael City Council approved a series of resolutions that will pave the way to buy land for an interim housing project. On Tuesday, Marin County approved a grant to the city that will complete the deal. The planned […] The post San Rafael interim housing project receives council’s OK despite neighborhood backlash appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
Fort Bragg’s Noyo Harbor Inn is betting big on two of the world’s favorite vices with the launch of its new curated whiskey and cigar program. The luxury inn’s onsite restaurant and bar, the HarborView Bistro & Bar, boasts more than 100 whiskeys. According to the hotel, it’s the largest selection on the Mendocino Coast. […] The post Mendocino County gets its first cigar lounge as Noyo Harbor Inn debuts whiskey program appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
A satellite designed and built by Sonoma State University students is scheduled to launch into space on Thursday, the university announced. Nicknamed “3UCubed,” the CubeSat mini satellite will be carried aboard a rocket launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc in Santa Barbara County. Once deployed, it will measure atmospheric density and electron precipitation […] The post Sonoma State University students to launch ‘3UCubed’ satellite into space Thursday appeared fi...| Local News Matters
Santa Clara County students continue to outperform statewide averages in core subjects, according to the 2025 California School Dashboard released Thursday. This year’s data shows 59.8% of Santa Clara County students met or exceeded English language arts standards, compared with 48.8% statewide, the Santa Clara County Office of Education announced. In math, 53.2% of county […] The post Dashboard data reveals Santa Clara County ahead of state in reading, math and science appeared first on ...| Local News Matters
Mendocino County Court Executive Kim Turner last week announced that temporary changes are coming to the Ten Mile Courthouse in Fort Bragg, following| Local News Matters
Construction is set to begin this month on interim repairs at the southern end of the Santa Cruz Wharf, city officials announced. Mobilization is expected to start in mid-November, with work scheduled for completion by February 2026, depending on weather, the city said. The project addresses damage caused by last winter’s heavy wave activity. Parks […] The post Santa Cruz Wharf repairs set to begin after winter storm damage; businesses stay open appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
San Francisco Opera, in highest adventure mode, presents “The Monkey King,” a dashing world premiere that brings to the stage a 16th-century Chinese action hero who is not only a popular television and film figure, but also the subject of the 2024 video game “Black Myth: Wukong.” How easy is it to relate operatically to a […] The post Review: San Francisco Opera’s world-premiere ‘Monkey King’ a flashy, theatrical superhero story appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
CALIFORNIA IS A MAJOR HUB for data centers — the facilities that store and transmit much of the internet. But just how much these power-hungry operations affect the state’s energy use, climate and public health remains an open question for researchers. A new report released last week by the environmental think tank Next 10 and a UC […] The post California data centers scrutinized as report flags rising emissions, strain on energy grid appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
SANTA CLARA COUNTY’S sales tax increase passed amid competing ideas on how the money would be used. Now a rift has emerged among proponents — and District Attorney Jeff Rosen said he may investigate a new spending proposal that leaves out law enforcement. County leaders chiefly characterized the five-eighths-cent sales tax increase, known as Measure A, as […] The post DA Rosen looks into whether Santa Clara County followed rules on sales tax measure appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
ZEV RATTET is a 77-year-old Marin County guy so passionate about K-dramas that he’s seen 15,000 hours of that voguish Korean genre, a variant of U.S. TV’s| Local News Matters
Community members and municipal leaders in the city of Palo Alto cut the ribbon at a new $123.5 million public safety building that will be the home to the city’s emergency services. The project has been in the works since 2014. The 57,000 square foot building at 250 Sherman Ave. will be the new offices […] The post Palo Alto opens new public safety building appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
AS TEMPERATURES DROP and you grab your winter jacket, some Contra Costa County roads also recently got a new coat. For the past few months, large construction trucks moved through the area repairing roads in some of the unincorporated county towns, such as Kensington and East Richmond Heights. The slurry seal project, which included covering roads […] The post ‘This is crazy’: Contra Costa street resurfacing work a road to frustration for some residents appeared first on Local News M...| Local News Matters
An 80-year-old man has been convicted of murder for the death of a 15-year-old girl in San Francisco nearly five decades ago, prosecutors said. In a statement, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced that a jury found Mark Personette guilty of first-degree murder in the 1978 killing of Marissa Harvey, a teenager visiting her […] The post ‘Time cannot thwart justice’: Man convicted in 1978 brutal murder of San Francisco teen appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
An East Bay social justice organization is asking the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors to spend millions of remaining federal COVID-relief money| Local News Matters
Morgan Hill police are warning residents to be on alert after a recent string of car thefts targeting high-performance Dodge vehicles, including Hellcats, in the city and across the Bay Area. In an alert, the Morgan Hill Police Department said suspects involved in the thefts are often armed and have recently focused on the Paradise […]| Local News Matters
Morgan Hill police are warning residents to be on alert after a recent string of car thefts targeting high-performance Dodge vehicles, including Hellcats, in the city and across the Bay Area. In an alert, the Morgan Hill Police Department said suspects involved in the thefts are often armed and have recently focused on the Paradise […] The post Morgan Hill police warn of armed thieves targeting Dodge muscle cars across Bay Area appeared first on Local News Matters.| Local News Matters
A PROGRAM OFFERING STIPENDS for landlords who provide spare bedrooms to formerly incarcerated people is coming to San Francisco. The “Homecoming Project”| Local News Matters
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A SAN JOSE TATTOO ARTIST facing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention cannot be taken into custody until a federal immigration judge issues a| Local News Matters
THE STANFORD CENTER on Longevity tackled a big topic at its annual Century Summit last week at Stanford University: “Ageism and the Intergenerational| Local News Matters
