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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S PLAN to repeal a rule prohibiting logging and road construction in undeveloped parts of national forests would strip protection ...

AMID A WAVE OF REAL ESTATE fraud schemes targeting older adults, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office hosted a workshop this week aimed at ...

Some areas of Berkeley will be closed for 24 hours starting at 5 a.m. on July 4 to reduce fire risk. Grizzly Peak Boulevard, from Centennial Drive to ...

IT HAS BEEN MORE than two years since the release of ChatGPT created widespread dismay over generative AI’s threat to academic integrity. Why would ...

After vowing to make future budgetary processes more transparent and open to public input, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Thursday unanimously ...