The Camp Fire destroyed 90% of the occupied mobile home park homes within the fire perimeter. Most of those homes were in the 30-plus mobile home parks in Paradise.
In 2022 alone, at least three children have been killed in traffic collisions while biking around the Bay Area, raising concerns around road safety and infrastructure.
Environmental watchdog group Baykeeper filed a lawsuit in federal court against Amports, which owns the Port of Benicia, and Valero for allegedly mishandling petroleum coke, a refinery product that can damage the heart and lungs.
The struggle for clean air and water in Benicia Read More »
Since the beginning of the pandemic, California’s job market has lost the largest percentage of parents of school children in the country, trailing only Nevada and Michigan, an analysis of U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey data shows.
‘A recipe for disaster’: The pandemic’s toll on working parents Read More »
Using batons, police caused fractures in some Bakersfield residents accused of serious crimes, and others who were never charged, or had charges dismissed.
This visualization takes a look at coronavirus cases in three Bay Area counties.
Bay Area coronavirus cases decline Read More »
Between 1930 and last year’s awards, 88 percent of best picture nominees were dramas, compared to 53 percent of feature-length films as a whole.
Year after year, best picture nominees go to dramas Read More »
In the last two years, advertisers spent less on Super Bowl advertisements than they had in previous years. To understand this trend, we turned to data on game viewership and time spent watching only Super Bowl advertisements on YouTube.
When fewer people watch the Super Bowl on TV, will the ads survive? Read More »
During the 2020 Super Bowl, the net income of players and performers on the field will change throughout the game.
Money on the field during 2020 Super Bowl Read More »
A comparison of local government spending on homeless services versus American consumer spending on Super Bowl Sunday.
If California’s Homeless Attended the Super Bowl Read More »
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. Now, it is the most commonly used drug in overdoses: about 30 percent of overdoses in 2016 involved fentanyl. In 2016, the rate of overdoses involving fentanyl was 12 times larger than it was in 2013.
A drug 50 times deadlier than heroin finds its way to California Read More »
Advertisers who invest in ad spots during the Super Bowl are paying dramatically higher costs year over year, while the number of people they reach by the dollar is steadily decreasing.
Advertisers are spending more money on Super Bowl commercials and reaching fewer people Read More »
