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Walkouts, closures across Bay Area in protest against ICE crackdown

“Just because it’s not happening to you doesn’t mean you’re supposed to sit back and watch everything unfold,” one student said after walking out of school.

Somos Familia executive director Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez

raises her hand as she leads hundreds of people in protest during a Anti-ICE protest held at the Fruitvale District in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Early estimates cited by the World Health Organization suggest that seasonal influenza vaccines continue to protect against severe illness and hospitalization in both children and adults. (Dreamstime/TNS/Dreamstime/TNS)

Flu cases on the rise in California; doctors urge vaccinations

Ronn Owens is pictured in a family photo. (Photo courtesy of Ronn Owens)

Ronn Owens loses bankruptcy bid amid daughter’s paternity fraud case

The Peninsula Open Space Trust, a Palo Alto environmental group, has purchased 6,114 acres of the historic Sargent Ranch near Gilroy, Calif., for $63.7 million in one of the largest land conservation deals in Santa Clara County history. (Photo: Teddy Miller / POST)

Watch: Aerial footage of stunning property that sold for $63 million in Santa Clara County

Stanford baseball coach Mark Marquess, who is retiring at the end of the season after 41 years at the helm, is joined on senior day after his No. 9 jersey was retired by the six seniors on the roster during a postgame ceremony at Sunken Diamond on Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Bob Drebin, ISI Photos)

Baseball world mourns Stanford coaching legend Mark Marquess

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Crime and Public Safety

Tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl. (Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)

‘I was a mother planning her baby’s funeral’: Livermore man gets 8 years for killing his daughter with fentanyl

It was a court hearing with all the grief and mourning of a funeral setting, except much of the focus was on a man sitting at the front in a Santa Rita Jail outfit.

Sports

San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey, left, smiles during a press conference introducing San Francisco Giants’ Rafael Devers (16) before their game against the Cleveland Guardians at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)

Buster Posey not ruling out possibility of SF Giants making more additions

The Giants officially announced the signing of outfielder Harrison Bader on Friday morning

After significant pushback, San Jose has deferred a proposal that would have allowed a one-time 10% rent increase when mobile homes were sold and allowing some capital improvements costs to be passed on to residents.