Matthew Green

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May 27Failed to save articlePlease try againOn May 25, 2025, the Alameda Fire Department worked with Oakland Fire to deploy a floating boom around a partially submerged clipper ship in the Oakland estuary.  (Courtesy of the Alameda Fire Department)For a vessel that’s spent decades cleaning up trash in the ocean, this is perhaps the cruelest of fates.

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May 22Failed to save articlePlease try againRainbow Falls at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2025. Supervisor Jackie Fielder introduced a motion on Tuesday calling for an official audit after the city’s DA launched a criminal investigation into the San Francisco Parks Alliance, which raises funds for the department.

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May 22Failed to save articlePlease try againA surfer catches a wave at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2025. The San Francisco Fire Department is warning all but the strongest swimmers or surfers to not go into the water at Ocean Beach over the holiday weekend. The precaution follows recent instances of people getting swept away by the beach’s notorious rip currents.  (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Bottom line: Ocean Beach don’t play.

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May 20Failed to save articlePlease try againThe Valero Benicia Refinery in Benicia on May 8, 2025, which processes up to 170,000 barrels of oil a day, making gasoline, diesel, and other fuels for California. Valero plans to shut down the Benicia refinery by April 2026, citing high costs and strict environmental rules. The Solano County city is proposing task forces to address the potential fallout of a Valero refinery closure.

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May 20Failed to save articlePlease try againA passenger watches a train go by at the Lake Merritt BART station on March 13, 2024. The Bay Area transit agency’s fare enforcement efforts have recovered minimal revenue, furthered racial disparities and largely failed to make riders feel safer, a new report found. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)BART’s fare enforcement efforts have neither led to significant revenue recovery nor made riders feel all that much safer, according to a new report.