11+ hour, 23+ min ago   (687+ words) East Bay Times Byron Sher, veteran lawmaker who wrote many of California’s landmark environmental laws, dies at 98 Byron Sher, a collegial Stanford University law professor who ran for Palo Alto city council in the 1960s after losing a battle over the…...

19+ hour, 1+ min ago   (722+ words) By Adveith Nair, Sara Gharaibeh, Salma El Wardany and Arsalan Shahla, Bloomberg News Iran plans to formally unveil an agreement on a temporary shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, after a flurry of diplomatic activity including a…...

17+ hour, 46+ min ago   (859+ words) By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and DIDI TANG While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify,…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (575+ words) By Jim Brunner | The Seattle Times SEATTLE — A new PAC backed by President Donald Trump is reportedly wading into Washington’s hottest congressional race as Republicans try to keep a House majority loyal to the president. No Going Back PAC has…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (423+ words) Inflation cooled slightly in the Bay Area in August, but gasoline prices skyrocketed in the region, a government report released Friday shows. The Bay Area inflation rate rose 3.4% over the one-year period that ended in August, less than the 3.8% annual…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (614+ words) By GLENN GAMBOA, AP Business Writer Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the United States safer. The five-year commitment aims to…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (413+ words) SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County has the second-most data centers among all counties in the nation and is seeing the fastest growth of the controversial facilities in the past year, according to a new report. An estimated 1,474 data centers were…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1153+ words) By Christine Mai-Duc | KFF Health News By the time Democrat Xavier Becerra left Washington, D.C., more Americans than ever had health insurance, owing partly to his work over the years to pass, defend, and expand the Affordable Care Act. It’s an…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (536+ words) A century ago, on Sept. 15, 1926, the Berkeley Daily Gazette published an editorial about the prospects for a Civic Center block in downtown Berkeley. “Some day — no one can say when — the city of Berkeley will purchase for a civic center…...