Bay Area Giants star Brandon Crawford, four others inducted into Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame By Kiley Russell, Bay City News | January 16, 2026 All the inductees will be celebrated at the BASHOF Class of 2026 Enshrinement Dinner on May 14.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Orinda Theatre, a ‘pun off,’ and ‘In the Name of Love’ concert By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | January 15, 2026 Also, Youth Orchestra Festival and benefit concert, and Chicago Symphony at Zellerbach.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area teens teach peers about Chinese opera By Stephanie Lam | Bay City News | January 15, 2026 Registration for students in grades 4 through 7 closes January 21.
California Newsom plans no new journalism funding despite $175 million funding deal with Google By Yue Stella Yu | CalMatters | January 15, 2026 The governor included no new funding for local journalism in his budget proposal, walking back an August 2024 deal with Google.
Business & Finance Gavin Newsom forecasts a rosier California budget and banks on AI boom continuing By Yue Stella Yu | CalMatters | January 9, 2026 The governor’s 2026-27 budget proposal projects $9 billion more in revenue than anticipated, banking on the AI-driven economy to last.
California Newsom proposes governor controls the California Department of Education By John Fensterwald | EdSource | January 9, 2026 Under the shift, the state superintendent of public instruction would have a different role.
California UC enrolls more Californians, driven by increases at Riverside By Michael Burke | EdSource | January 9, 2026 Systemwide, UC saw increases in enrollments of new out-of-state and international students.
California California rejects CDC’s latest rollback of childhood vaccine guidelines By Vani Sanganeria | EdSource | January 9, 2026 The federal agency on Monday scaled back recommendations for several common vaccines.
Bay Area Beloved alligator could live on in SF street name By Alise Maripuu | Bay City News | January 8, 2026 Claude died in December, aged 30, and was one of an estimated 100 to 200 albino alligators in the world.
California How Californians can use a new state website to block hundreds of data brokers By Colin Lecher and Miles Hinton | CalMatters | January 8, 2026 A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.