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An East Bay ceremony welcoming the sculpture from Mexico celebrated culture bridging borders.

The two Democrats campaigning to represent District 11 in Congress debated AI safety, housing affordability and foreign policy.

As one of the most passionate and organized fandoms around, the Bay’s BTS ARMY is embracing RM’s arrival at SFMOMA — as well as his approach to art and culture. Here’s how you can get involved.

Their popularity has brought an alarming increase in serious injuries, especially among young riders.

Since President Donald Trump took office in 2025, hundreds of people across the U.S. have been arrested while traveling through airports.

What to know about RM’s arrival at SFMOMA, how to get tickets to the exhibit, merch and more.

Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.   One Man Took Up Running to Rebuild His Life After Prison When Cesar Quijano was paroled from Ironwood State Prison in 2022, he’d spent most of his adult life behind bars. Quijano joined a reentry program near San Diego, but he still struggled to disrupt old patterns – and to alter h...

Would require voters to show identification when voting, not just when they register to vote.

This $8.4 billion bond measure would fund immunology research, with half of the funds going to UCLA.

Psychologist Marisa Franco wants us to stop trying so hard to feel worthy. Her new book explores what self-esteem actually looks like, especially when we feel hurt or insecure.

In what may be their only debate of the season, Becerra avoided a misstep and Hilton pitched himself as the change California needs.

The new sexual assault allegations prompted Mayor Daniel Lurie and others to withdraw their support.

Before you call that fight with your partner a red flag, listen to what the argument is telling you. Kim Polinder, author of the new book “Why We Fight,” said conflict can expose what matters — and even bring couples closer.

The DOJ gave CDCR 49 days to address abuses in women’s prison, or it could sue. That deadline is today.

Prop 37 authorizes the state to borrow money for a home buying program for middle-income Californians.

Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 Inside a mass use-of-force incident at women’s prison It’s the summer of 2024, and Antoinette Yancey, who’s incarcerated at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, said a sergeant named Isidro Arroyo came up to her. “And he said to me, the PREA, the staff … Continue reading Incarcerat...

Butterflies, intoxicating highs and crushing lows can feel like signs that you’ve found the one. But, according to Neuroscientist Tom Bellamy intense chemistry doesn’t equal the right partner.

Warming winters, an old soil fungus and the relentless suburban spread of Silicon Valley have finally caught up with one of the last fruit farmers in the Valley of Heart's Delight.

In 2021, California voters were asked whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. But there was also a second question: Who should replace him?

The viral song “We Want Your Pee” jokingly advocates that urine could cool data centers… but could it actually work?

Guest V.S. Subrahmanian argues that the nation's cybersecurity problems go far beyond the frontier labs

The Affordable Care Act was a victory for Pelosi, but her compromises also defined the landmark bill

Eight movies top our list of the best scary films set in the Bay Area.

Proposition 4 would overturn a prior ban on publicly funded financing programs for political candidates.

Listen in as three young organizers reflect on what motivated them to get involved in voter registration and electoral campaigns.