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The Atherton Train Station’s Second Life

For nearly a century, Atherton’s train station served as a connection between the town and the rest of the Peninsula. After Caltrain announced the end of its service in the town in 2020, the station’s future became uncertain. On Oct. 18, the previous station reopened its doors, this time as a museum dedicated to preserving the town’s railroad history.

Atherton, CA · 1d
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Menlo Park’s Measure P appears headed for failure

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Menlo Park’s Measure P moved closer to defeat as votes continued to be counted from the Nov. 3 election. The latest results, released late on Friday afternoon, Nov. 6, showed 4,237 votes (46.2%), in favor of the measure to 4,939 (53.8%) opposed, widening the gap seen in earlier returns.

Menlo Park, CA · 2d
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Original Joe’s Eyeing Former Restaurant Space In Menlo Park

Original Joe’s is considering opening a restaurant in the former Left Bank Brasserie space at 635 Santa Cruz Ave. in downtown Menlo Park. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the restaurant group is interested in taking over the property, although it has not yet signed a lease. The possibility was also mentioned by Menlo Park Mayor Betsy Nash in her newsletter.

Menlo Park, CA · 2d
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Stanford Pitches Eight-Story, 194-Unit Housing Tower at Research Park's El Camino Gateway

A parking lot that currently serves Rivian's local branch at 3300 El Camino Real could soon become the site of an eight-story apartment building with 194 units, paired with a three-story office building, under a new proposal from Stanford University. Of those apartments, 39 — or 20% of the total — would be reserved for households earning up to 80% of the area median income.

Palo Alto, CA · 2d
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San Francisco Chronicle

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University of California buys Half Moon Bay’s Ritz-Carlton for $193 million

The University of California has emerged as the new owner of the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, paying $193 million for the resort in one of the university system’s latest real estate investments.

Half Moon Bay, CA · 2d

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California Appeals Court Tosses $39,000 Fee Award, Says Husband Waited Too Long

A California appellate court has wiped out a $39,000 attorney-fee award that a San Mateo County judge handed down in a contentious divorce case, ruling that the husband waited far too long to ask for the money. The decision, filed Oct. 28, 2026, and certified for publication, means the fee order is gone — not because the underlying restraining order was wrong, but because the clock had already run out.

San Mateo County, CA · 3d

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Volunteers keep watch outside Redwood City jail after reported ICE activity

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Around a dozen volunteers were stationed outside Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City on Friday night, Nov. 6, and into Saturday morning after two immigration enforcement agents were reported looking for recently released inmates and taking at least one into custody. Community members handed...

Redwood City, CA · 2d

San Francisco Chronicle

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‘We’re a bunch of weirdos up in here’: A shuttered Bay Area venue gets new life

Bay Area concert producers Heavy Lemon and the nonprofit Crossthread plan to reopen San Jose’s Black Cat Licorice Theater as a music venue next year.

San Jose, CA · 2d

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Bay Area Californians Could Pay $149 at Safeway for $100 at WinCo

A can of Campbell’s soup is the same can wherever you buy it in the Bay Area. Here’s how much more Bay Area Californians could pay at Safeway than at WinCo, and what that gap means for your weekly budget. Who Ran the Numbers. Checkbook priced a basket...

California · 5d

CalMatters

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New deadline for phaseout of gas water heaters gives Bay Area homeowners one more year

Up to half of Bay Area households can skip electric water heaters under an updated rule by air regulators. Residents not exempt have one more year to comply.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 3d

USA TODAY

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Bay Area approved saving public transit, but how much will it cost you

Bay Area voters approved two transit tax measures in the 2026 general election, adding new costs for residents in five counties while funding BART, Muni, Caltrain, and other transit systems. How much more will residents pay? It depends on where they live. The Regional Transit Measure will impose a 14-year sales tax in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. San Francisco will add a 1% sales tax, while the other four counties will add 0.5%. San Francisco voters also approved Proposition H, a 15-year property tax to fund the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Here's more about the two measures, how each Bay Area county voted, and how the new taxes will affect residents in each county. Regional Transit Measure and Proposition H explained The Regional Transit Measure will create a 14-year, five-county sales tax in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties, expected to generate about $980 million annually as a new revenue source for the region's transit system. Specifically, San Francisco County will introduce a new 1.0% sales tax, and Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties will introduce a new 0.5% sales tax. The Metropolitan Transportation

Santa Clara County, CA · 2d

CBS San Francisco

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San Jose kicks off year-long celebration leading up to its 250th anniversary

The city is planning a year-long set of events to honor the various aspects of its diverse tapestry, starting with a new "San Jose 250" logo, featuring stylized images of the various groups that make up its past.

San Jose, CA · 1d

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Palo Alto’s Squire House Lists for $19.9 Million; City Records Differ on Preservation Contract

The Squire House at 900 University Avenue is listed for $19.9 million. It has not changed ownership since 1999, so a completed sale would be its first ownership change since then; the listing itself does not mark a sale. Palo Alto Online reports that the 7,794-square-foot Crescent Park property was built in 1904.

Palo Alto, CA · 1d

San José Spotlight

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California ballot measure limiting local taxes is failing

A California ballot measure defeated in Tuesday night’s election prevented a change which could’ve made it more difficult for local governments and agencies to receive funding by raising the approval threshold. Proposition 43 looks to be failing with 55.4% of statewide voters voting no and 44.1% voting yes....

California · 18h

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San Jose mixed-use village will start gradually and proceed in phases

SAN JOSE — A game plan has emerged for a wide-ranging redevelopment of a longtime San Jose shopping center that will be replaced by homes and commercial spaces. Now a shopping center featuring a well-known carousel, Cambrian Park Village at 14900 Union Ave. and next to Camden Avenue could include up to 428 residences, city planning documents show.

San Jose, CA · 2d

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Permanent Closure of Orinda BART Presumably Off the Table as Measure RTM Passes

ORINDA, CALIFORNIA – For much of 2026, Orinda residents faced an unsettling possibility: Their local BART station, a fixture of the community for more than 50 years, could close as the transit agency struggled with a massive financial shortfall. Now, following Tuesday’s election, that possibility appears to be off...

Orinda, CA · 3d

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Silicon Valley had a terrible election night. One local billionaire did not

Election night was, to put it mildly, a bloodbath for the tech industry. But one local tech billionaire emerged almost spotless. Ripple chairman and San Francisco native Chris Larsen poured more than $22 million into national politics this cycle, much of it to the Democratic candidates and PACs that helped usher in a historic blue wave. In California, he spent millions boosting moderate, business-friendly candidates and measures that scored wins in deep-blue districts.

San Francisco, CA · 21h

San José Spotlight

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York: Alviso Park, a half century of broken promises

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For more than half a century, the people of Alviso have waited for something so ordinary it should never have become a struggle — a decent neighborhood park. Generations of children have grown up while San Jose produced plans, commissioned studies, held meetings...

San Jose, CA · 2d

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Newsom's proposed death row commutations would affect Bay Area's most notorious killers

Newsom's proposed commutations would change death sentences to life without the possibility of parole for inmates, including notorious killers Cary Stayner, Richard Farley, and Richard Allen Davis.

California · 3d