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1 day ago | kqed.org | Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman

May 14Failed to save articlePlease try againA speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. The cameras will be issuing $0 citations for the foreseeable future, while San Francisco tries to get all the cameras online.  (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)Hake says the reason for the project’s uncertain completion date is due to a new permit process the city is undertaking with PG&E to hook up the new cameras.

1 day ago | kqed.org | Ezra Romero

May 14Failed to save articlePlease try againA former potential site of the water tunnel center intake on the Sacramento River on March 1, 2020, in Courtland, California. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget proposal includes a push to fast-track a controversial tunnel project that could send more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms and cities — a move he says is needed to prepare for a drier future, though it faces strong opposition from some lawmakers and environmental groups.

1 day ago | kqed.org | Matthew Green |Natalia V. Navarro

May 14Failed to save articlePlease try againOakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee holds a press conference in Oakland on April 21, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)Barbara Lee doesn’t need any reminders; she’s got a tough job ahead of her. “We’ve been working very hard,” she told KQED on Tuesday, a week before she is set to be sworn in as Oakland’s next mayor.

2 days ago | kqed.org | Ezra Romero

May 14Failed to save articlePlease try againSuisun Marsh is home to hundreds of species of birds, fish, amphibians and mammals. Local officials and environmental groups oppose a project allowing exploratory natural gas drilling in the marsh. (Alice Woelfle/KQED)Bay Area nonprofits, counties and cities with environmental justice projects are searching for new funding after the Trump administration terminated the grants that funded their work in the last two weeks.

2 days ago | kqed.org | Matthew Green |Marisa Lagos

May 13Failed to save articlePlease try againCalifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta fields questions during a press conference on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in Los Angeles. California and a coalition of 19 other Democratic states filed two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s latest threat to withhold billions in transportation and security funds.