Under One Dark Sky
Some residents in West Marin are hoping to make their home the first designated Dark Sky Community in the Bay Area.
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Innovative Glasses Transforming Real-Time Conversations Into Subtitles for People With Hearing Impairment
Entering its third year of business, TranscribeGlass plans to first tackle the challenge of meeting the astronomical demand.
As South Peninsula downtowns feel labor shortage, businesses ponder solutions
MENLO PARK, Calif. — The Tuesday night dinner shift is marked by a lull in business, with the few customers who choose to dine spending less than they would on weekends. But for Menlo Park restaurants, finding the staff to operate their businesses on even the slowest days can be a challenge. Of 16 downtown
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“They ask for more every year with less and less people:” Fighter pilots face burnout amid Navy aviation manning shortages
The Navy manages to get by with pilot shortages by extending and forcing back-to-back deployments and asking those on non-deployable “shore tours” to work more shifts.
Inside The Industry That’s Preparing For An Atmospheric River
Around the state, dozens of people work year-round to mitigate impacts of an atmospheric river.
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Bay Area’s Newest Professional Women’s Soccer Team Takes Shape
On Dec. 15, the team selected five players in the 2024 NWSL Expansion Draft.
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Stranded and Stripped of Independence: Chaos Ensues When Airlines Damage Wheelchairs
If Janelle Fiesta didn’t live with a physical disability, she is certain she would be a flight attendant. The 27-year-old from Honolulu is an avid traveler whose eyes twinkle as she reminisces about trips to Disney Parks with her boyfriend, Antoine, and opportunities she’s had to connect with the global community of individuals living with
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As Restrictions Loom, RV Residents Fear They’ll Lose More Than Their Parking Spot
Four-hour weekday parking limits that were announced last September by the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Authority are set to go into effect on Dec. 19, less than a week before Christmas.
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Social Media Bill Expected to Return to California Lawmakers in 2024
SB 680 aimed to hold social media companies accountable for content that promotes eating disorder, suicide and drug addiction.
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Bridging the (Nature) Gap
That journalist, James Edward Mills, and many others like him, know the opposite to be true. There is a gap in knowledge about stories of people of color in the outdoors that mirrors a discrepancy in presence. Racial disparity in the outdoors, also known as the nature gap, is a problem pressing into the public consciousness. But it illuminates a sister concern: representation.
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Oakland’s Cannabis Equity Program gave applicants hope, but leaves promises unfulfilled
Oakland’s Cannabis Equity Program, which was the first of its kind in the U.S., has distributed at least $6.4 million in no-interest loans and grants to qualified applicants to start businesses in the cannabis industry, such as dispensaries, delivery services and cultivation operations.
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Some CSU Maintenance Workers On Brink of Homelessness Because of Poor Wages
SAN JOSE, Calif – The 90-minute commute to work as an air conditioning refrigeration mechanic at San Jose State University now feels short to Aaron Flores. During the 80-mile drive from the Central Valley to San Jose, Flores sips his coffee and turns on satellite radio, listening to a few songs or the news, but
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