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kqed.org | Jared Servantez |Katie DeBenedetti |Brian Watt |Ethan Toven-Lindsey
May 9Failed to save articlePlease try againTens of thousands of Bay Area transit riders woke up Friday to find no BART service at all. Above, a BART train at the Civic Center station is shown last year. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Updated 10:15 a.m.BART has resumed service across its entire system after an hours-long outage Friday morning forced tens of thousands of riders to find other ways to get around the Bay Area.
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kqed.org | Ericka Cruz Guevarra |Katie DeBenedetti |Jessica Kariisa |Alan Montecillo
Cows in a meadow in Point Reyes National Seashore located in Marin County, California, on Nov. 17, 2017. (Gili Yaari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Jared Servantez
May 2Failed to save articlePlease try againPeople participate in a rally to call on Congress to protect funding for U.S. public broadcasters, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), outside the NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2025.
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kqed.org | Matthew Green |Farida Jhabvala Romero |Katie DeBenedetti
May 1Failed to save articlePlease try againProtesters walk during a march in San Francisco on May 1, 2017. Immigrant groups and their allies have planned actions from Santa Rosa to San José will include marches and walkouts on two UC campuses. (Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)The Bay Area will be bustling with labor actions on Thursday, with thousands of workers and activists expected to take to the streets and picket lines across the region on a May Day that, for many, carries a heightened sense of urgency.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Vanessa Rancano
Apr 30Failed to save articlePlease try againApartments at Heritage Park at Hilltop in Richmond on Sept. 28, 2022. Tenants at Heritage Park have successfully organized against rent increases in the past at the affordable housing community for seniors. A bill to lower California’s cap on rent increases and expand tenant protections drew strong opposition from landlord groups and others who argued it would hamper development.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Riley Cooke
Apr 18Failed to save articlePlease try againOakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. The Oakland Public Ethics Commission’s executive director announced his resignation months after the agency’s chief investigator quit, citing a severe lack of resources.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Sara Hossaini
Mar 17Failed to save articlePlease try againThe Dublin Federal Correctional Institution on Sept. 13, 2019, in Dublin, California. Darrell Wayne Smith is the final former FCI Dublin official to face trial after a sprawling abuse investigation into the now-shuttered federal prison. His criminal trial began Monday.
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2 months ago | 
kqed.org | Alex Emslie |Katie DeBenedetti
Mar 14Failed to save articlePlease try againAn Antioch Police vehicle sits in the parking lot of the Antioch Police Department on March 3, 2025. Former APD officer Morteza Amiri was found guilty of violating a single person’s civil rights and falsifying a police report, but acquitted of engaging in a broader conspiracy to use excessive force. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Amiri’s sentencing on the two guilty counts is set for June, according to his attorney, Paul Goyette.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Sara Hossaini
Mar 12Failed to save articlePlease try againThe Antioch Police Department in Antioch on March 3, 2025. The jury in the federal trial of former Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri will now decide whether the evidence is enough to find that Amiri conspired to violate civil rights, used unreasonable force on three specific occasions, and falsified records on one of those occasions.
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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí
Mar 6Failed to save articlePlease try againAn employee, who did not want to be named, hangs up bags for sale at Luz de Luna, a gift store on 24th Street, in San Francisco, on March 5, 2025. Owner Denise Gonzales says about 70% of the products sold in her store are imported from Mexico. Amid a back-and-forth over tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, many San Francisco small businesses that sell handmade goods, clothes, food and other items are rattled.
