arts Best Bets: SF Opera opens, huge South Bay art fest, and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | September 7, 2023 The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create. We highlight some of the offerings here.
Bay Area 570 California schools targeted for low vaccination rates By Diana Lambert, Daniel J. Willis, and Yuxuan Xie | EdSource | September 7, 2023 More than half of Oakland Unified’s 48 elementary schools and eight of its schools serving seventh graders are on the audit list for 2022-23.
Bay Area Attorney for Monterrosa family vows to hire private security to monitor returning officer By Katy St. Clair | Bay City News Foundation | September 6, 2023 Vallejo police killed Sean Monterrosa in 2020 during the unrest surrounding George Floyd protests in that city.
Bay Area 2 arrested after shooting at Skyline High By Thomas Peele | EdSource and Exedra Staff | September 5, 2023 No injuries were reported, but students were kept under lockdown several hours as police investigated.
Bay Area BART to increase service frequency By Tony Roca | Bay City News | September 5, 2023 No more half-hour stretches between trains on nights, weekends.
climate change California’s wildfire smoke and climate change: 4 things to know By Alejandro Lazo | CalMatters | September 5, 2023 California wildfires every year emit as much carbon as almost 2 million cars, posing a threat to efforts to battle climate change.
Bay Area A California city offered a $75,000 bonus to new cops. These departments are trying to keep up By Anabel Sosa | CalMatters | September 5, 2023 Neighboring cities are struggling to hire police in a tight labor market after the COVID pandemic.
Bay Area Young voter engagement has dipped since 2020. These groups want to change that By Catherine Allen | Bay City News | September 1, 2023 More than 200 organizations in the Bay Area work on improving political engagement.
Arts & Entertainment Free Shakespeare in the Park trims and tidies ‘Cymbeline’ By Hilda Scheib | Bay City News Foundation | September 1, 2023 Something Shakespearean for everyone: mistaken identity, poison, murder, and forbidden love, plus audience participation.
Bay Area Cal, Stanford ditch flailing Pac-12 for Atlantic Coast Conference By Keith Burbank | Bay City News | September 1, 2023 The ACC will now have 18 teams.