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  • FILE – Travelers prepare to enter Oakland International airport Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland’s airport is considering a name-change to include “San Francisco” to attract more passengers but San Francisco officials are slamming the move, saying it will confuse travelers since there is already a San Francisco International Airport. The Board of Commissioners for the Port of Oakland will take up the question at its meeting on Thursday, April 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)Politics

    Oakland International Airport is thinking about adding ‘San Francisco’ to its name but the actual San Francisco isn’t having it

    By Janie Har, Olga R. Rodriguez, and others
  • California ForeverPolitics

    The Silicon Valley billionaires’ astroturf city being built from scratch is running headlong into a NIMBY backlash

    By Janie Har, Alena Botros, and others
  • San Francisco reparationsPolitics

    Civil rights advocates want reparations. San Francisco says how about an apology

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • FILE – In this aerial photo is farmland in rural Solano County, Calif., Aug. 30, 2023. The people behind a secretive Silicon Valley-backed ballot initiative to construct a new city on farmland between Sacramento and San Francisco are releasing more details of their plan as they submit paperwork Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, to qualify for the November election. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)Finance

    ‘California used to be this place of optimism’: Ex-Goldman trader says $800m Silicon Valley billionaires city is chance to fight Texas and Florida

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • rural outback land between San Francisco and Sacramento.Finance

    Silicon Valley billionaires behind secretive new California city reveal map and other details of proposed development

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • Homeless encampment in Portland, OregonLifestyle

    America’s cities are ratcheting up controversial ‘sweeps’ of homeless encampments, but still failing to find a solution: ‘We’re not trash, we’re people’

    By Claire Rush, Janie Har, and others
  • WOODSIDE, CA – MARCH 27: Visitors are seen as trees blossom at Filoli Historic House & Garden in Woodside of California, United States on March 27, 2023. (Photo by Tayfun Cokun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Politics

    Biden and Xi meeting will take place at a historic country estate outside San Francisco featured in Jennifer Lopez’s ‘The Wedding Planner’

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • Paradise wildfireEnvironment

    Soaring insurance is forcing people to (literally) leave Paradise, as California’s wildfire rebuild comes with 5-figure premiums

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • San FranciscoSuccess

    ‘Birthplace of the waterbed. And the summer of love’: San Francisco is launching a $4 million ad campaign to convince people it’s not failing

    By Janie Har, Haven Daley, and others
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 13: San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins (L) speaks as San Francisco police chief William Scott (L) looks on during a press conference at San Francisco Police headquarters on April 13, 2023 in San Francisco, California. San Francisco police arrested 38 year-old tech tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni at his home in Emeryville, California in connection with the stabbing murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee. Momeni was taken into custody without incident. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Tech

    Suspect in murder of San Francisco tech executive Bob Lee will stand trial after failing to get the charges reduced

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • FILE -Nima Momeni, the man charged in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee, makes his way into the courtroom for his arraignment in San Francisco on May 2, 2023. The San Francisco prosecutor’s office starts laying out its murder case against a tech consultant charged in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee. The preliminary hearing started Monday, July 31, 2023, before a judge who will decide if there’s enough evidence to go to trial. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)Tech

    Lawyers for tech consultant accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee say he had no motive for murder: ‘What you see is a cordial relationship’

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • Nima MomeniTech

    San Francisco begins laying out murder charges against tech consultant who allegedly stabbed startup founder Bob Lee

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • Twitter 'X'Tech

    San Francisco is investigating the giant ‘X’ installed on the building formerly known as Twitter’s headquarters

    By Janie Har, Haven Daley, and others
  • Marc Tessier-LavigneSuccess

    Stanford’s president is resigning, retracting 3 papers and correcting 2 others after investigation of misconduct claims

    By Janie Har and The Associated Press
  • A store-closing banner hangs over the entrance to the Coco Republic store near Union Square in San Francisco on June 21, 2023. San Francisco’s downtown has seen an exodus of retailers and now a shopping mall owner is turning it over to its lender in the face of declining foot traffic and empty office space. While San Francisco faces some of its own unique issues the problems serve as warning signs for other downtowns across the country, which are also feeling some pain. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)Finance

    Marc Benioff says downtown San Francisco is ‘never going back to the way it was’ as experts grapple with turning around the ghost town

    By Anne D'Innocenzio, Janie Har, and others