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Buster Posey is facing his first true test as an SF Giants exec

12.12.2024 3

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San Francisco officials delay crackdown on parking law

11.12.2024 3

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Despite community backlash, SF Safeway to close in February

11.12.2024 2

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Disneyland's oldest holiday tradition has surprise celebrity guests

11.12.2024 8

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In Latin America's largest Warriors fan group, 'Chefsito' can do no wrong

11.12.2024 20

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Wealthy California city approves luxury hotel despite public outcry

11.12.2024 8

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Even SF's magic mushroom church can't afford the city's wild permit costs

11.12.2024 20

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Stop of RV on Calif. highway uncovers woman's kidnapping, officials say

A California man has been charged with kidnapping after a traffic stop discovered a domestic violence situation, officials said in Nov. 2024. A...

18.11.2024 10

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'Impressive' atmospheric river, first of the season, takes aim at California

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Dozens are sickened and 1 person dead after eating carrots from Calif. farm

18.11.2024 20

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Former SF tech exec shares moving goodbye as he enters hospice

18.11.2024 20

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A 'monstrous problem' created 7 years ago haunts Calif.'s weed industry

Jason Matthys, a cannabis breeder and activist in Mendocino County, said almost every entrepreneur he knows has left California’s legal cannabis...

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California voters could be the only people stopping Trump from total control

Californians are used to feeling like their votes don’t really matter in the national election. A Republican hasn’t won the state’s electoral...

05.11.2024 4

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What the polls say about who might become San Francisco mayor

San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin speaks at the mayoral debate on Monday, June 17, 2024. One day before the election, the San Francisco mayoral...

05.11.2024 20

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'I don't want to go': Iconic SF taqueria’s future is uncertain after 3 break-ins

El Faro, one of San Francisco’s first taquerias. The owner of one of the first San Francisco taquerias said she’s considering closing or selling...

19.10.2024 20

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This six-pack of California beer costs $120. It's worth every penny.

18.10.2024 3

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This woman loves her city so much, she painted it on her house

18.10.2024 4

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Award-winning SF institution returns, but its future is up in the air

18.10.2024 30

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The search for Hawaii's missing island

18.10.2024 5

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The Bay Area's biggest cannabis farm does not want to get anyone high

Edibles and vape pens in California commonly contain artificial flavors. Shareef El-Sissi wants to change that, so in 2017, he started building a...

18.10.2024 4

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California smoke shops are breaking Newsom's hemp THC ban

When Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced an emergency ban on hemp THC products last month, he said it was a response to a dire public health emergency and...

08.10.2024 4

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Bay Area startup shuts down, lays off 500 workers

An airplane descends to land at Los Angeles International Airport above a billboard advertising the marijuana delivery service Eaze on July 12, 2018,...

07.10.2024 7

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'Perfect': People are falling in love with South San Francisco's newest park

Daniel DeSanto kickflips over an embankment at South San Francisco’s new skate plaza. South San Francisco’s new skate park doesn’t look like...

03.10.2024 10

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Newsom signs celebrity-backed cannabis cafe bill

FILE: Phil Crew, owner of Mendocino Family Farms, smokes a joint of his own cannabis during a farmers market at a cannabis consumption lounge....

30.09.2024 8

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Historic Bay Area dispensary launched legal marijuana movement. Now it’s broke.

FILE: Customer Jose Medina (left) and nephew Stevie Medina excitedly purchase plants in the early hours of the morning at Harborside Health Center on...

28.09.2024 40

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Newsom's controversial hemp THC ban approved, effective immediately

FILE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, pictured during a May 2023 conference, has succeeded in making hemp THC illegal across the state. Gov. Gavin...

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‘Do the right thing’: Celebrities urge Newsom to sign Calif. bill

FILE: Alex Korsin has a smoke and a meal at Irie, a weed and food restaurant upstairs from Pleasure Med cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles. ...

20.09.2024 4

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College football is hungry for cash. Cannabis might be the answer.

Gilbert “Berner” Milam Jr. never thought the University of Southern California would say yes. When the founder and CEO of the cannabis brand...

20.09.2024 7

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Californians are 'panic buying' hemp before an expected THC ban

Gov. Gavin Newsom has set off a surge of “panic buying” hemp after his announcement earlier this month that he’s attempting to outlaw all hemp...

18.09.2024 4

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Whistleblower: Calif. knew about toxic pot products, looked the other way

FILE: Cannabis plants growing at a California cannabis farm. A former senior official with California’s Department of Cannabis Control is accusing...

13.09.2024 10

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'Just smoke': Why one Bay Area doctor says you should never use pot vapes

Dr. Laurie Vollen has been encouraging people to use cannabis for decades, recommending thousands of her patients smoke marijuana to treat a wide...

12.09.2024 4

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Green Day band members rushed offstage during Detroit show

Green Day perform at the Fillmore, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.  Bay Area punk rock band Green Day was halfway through playing their hit song...

06.09.2024 3

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Newsom proposes outright ban on hemp THC in California

Numerous laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom take effect in California on July 1, 2024.  Gov. Gavin Newsom fired a direct attack Friday on the booming...

06.09.2024 3

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Calif. could get pot cafes and weed farmers markets, if Newsom says yes

Forrest Gauder shows off a cannabis flower grown at his Sun Roots Farm in Mendocino County. Californians could soon win the right to smoke weed at...

30.08.2024 5

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Stern Grove Festival sues San Francisco over massive flood

Phil Lesh & Friends performs at the 85th Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco on Aug. 14, 2022.  A massive flood that covered a venue in mud and...

28.08.2024 4

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'Out of Control': Burning Man's drug enforcement policies are shockingly strict

It’s never been easier to smoke weed in America. You can legally buy cannabis in more than half of all U.S. states and smoke marijuana in public...

26.08.2024 80

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