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NBA to announce MVP award winner, with Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic and Antetokounmpo the finalists
The NBA will unveil this season’s Most Valuable Player on Wednesday night. The winner will be Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s Nikola Jokic or ...
New generation of CHP squad cars hitting Bay Area roads
California Highway Patrol has an all-new tool to help officers blend in with traffic, catching unsuspecting drivers who fall right into their trap. “I consider ...
CHP issues Silver Alert for missing elderly woman
The California Highway Patrol on Tuesday issued a Silver Alert for a woman missing out of Sacramento County, with the belief she may be in the Bay Area. Deana Fenton, 78, was last ...
Wave of litigation follows January fire at Moss Landing battery facility
A wave of lawsuits, large and small, have been waged against Vistra Corporation, PG&E and many of their associated companies in the months following an explosive Jan. 16 fire at ...
Judge orders US officials to appear in court to answer questions about migrants sent to South Sudan
A judge has ordered U.S. officials to appear at an emergency hearing Wednesday to answer questions about their apparent ...
Habitat loss and climate change make it tough to be an amphibian. Some humans are helping
On a rainy March evening, John Bateman puts on his boots and a headlamp and heads to a wetland cut through by a busy road. As ...
Bay Area temps climb Wednesday ahead of holiday cooldown
After a slightly cooler day, temperatures will climb back up Wednesday, making this afternoon easily the warmest of the rest of the forecast. A very slight onshore ...
Gerry Connolly, a Democratic congressman and fixture of Virginia politics, dies at 75
U.S. Rep. Gerald “Gerry” Connolly, an outspoken Democrat who sought key reforms in the federal government while bringing transformational development to his populous Virginia ...
Lebanese and Palestinians leaders agree that Lebanon won’t be used as a launchpad to strike Israel
The Lebanese and Palestinian presidents agreed Wednesday that Palestinian factions won’t use Lebanon as a launchpad for any attacks against Israel, and to remove weapons that ...
The Latest: House Republicans grinding through Trump’s tax breaks bill
House Republicans are pushing to vote on their multi-trillion-dollar tax breaks package as soon as Wednesday, grinding out last-minute deal-making to shore up wavering GOP support and deliver on ...
BART service restored Wednesday following San Leandro station fire
After a day of system closures caused by a fire, BART restored service to all 50 stations Wednesday morning, the agency said. Trains again are running between Lake Merritt, ...
GOP tries to push Trump’s big beautiful bill to floor as key hearing drags into daylight
A key committee meeting on the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” is dragging into the daylight on Wednesday, as Democrats needle Republicans on the contents of the sprawling package and GOP lawmakers ...