September scorcher: Above-average heat sets stage for elevated fire risk this week
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The potential for dry lightning strikes will elevate the threat of fire impacts.
Bay Area
AIDS funding at risk: Bay Area HIV providers brace for cuts, warn progress could unravel
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Of the estimated 1.1 million people estimated by the CDC to have HIV in the US, approximately 143,254 people, or 12%, live in California.Housing
Alameda County rolls out program to cut red tape from affordable housing development
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County is seeking a qualified architectural firm to help make it happen.Bay Area
Renderings show proposed public plaza, lagoon overlook at SF’s Fisherman’s Wharf
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In place of the iconic Alioto's Restaurant, the new waterfront plaza will open up views and strengthen the connection to the fishing industry.Bay Area
We belong outdoors: Bay Area groups battle inequity to make nature accessible for all
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Bay Area’s great outdoors often mirrors its difficult history of systemic inequality, revealing who gets access to nature and who doesn’t.BART
‘It feels like a cyber-attack’: Computer issue snarled commute for thousands of BART riders
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Computer upgrade gone wrong paralyzed BART on Friday.Bay Area
Breakthrough on California housing could put taller buildings in single-family neighborhoods
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A powerful California construction union is no longer fighting a bill that would ease barriers to the construction of tall apartment buildings near transit stations.Housing
San Francisco moves to streamline more permit processes for housing, business
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The effort to streamline and simplify the permitting process was a component of Lurie’s mayoral campaign.Bay Area
The fight for Prop. 50: Elected officials rally in SF to support congressional map redraw
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State Sen. Scott Wiener framed Prop. 50 as a “fight that came to us.”Bay Area
Evacuation orders lifted for Pickett Fire as Napa County blaze nears full containment
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The cause of the fire remains under investigation.homelessness
