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Contra Costa County health officials on Tuesday confirmed the county's first local case of coronavirus. The infected person had no known travel history and no known contact with any other confirmed cases.
Voters in Sunnyvale appeared poised Tuesday to permanently change their city charter to formally move from at-large voting systems to district-based systems, while voters in Santa Clara appeared to reject a similar ballot measure.
Early voting results Tuesday night showed that San Mateo County voters were on track to approve a handful of bonds and measures benefiting local school districts.
Voting results from Tuesday's election showed Foster City residents overwhelmingly approving a measure to recall City Councilman Herb Perez after his repeated insults of city residents and "bullying."
Measure J -- a 35-year half-cent sales tax to raise money for local roads, buses, rail, ferries and other transportation improvement projects in Contra Costa County -- appears to have fallen far short of the wo-thirds approval needed to pass, according to initial results.
An Alameda County ballot measure that would raise an estimated $150 million annually to expand access to early education and child care for all children in the county was ahead in the incomplete returns Tuesday but its ultimate fate may be decided in court.
Voters in Sonoma and Marin counties are rejecting a 30-year extension of a quarter-cent sales tax for the operation o the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit's SMART train, according to Tuesday's initial results.
The Associated Press news agency called California's Democratic presidential primary for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders even though no votes from Tuesday had yet been counted.
Measure K, a quarter-cent sales and use tax to preserve and maintain Napa County parks and open space, was falling short of the two-thirds vote it needs for approval late Tuesday night.
San Francisco supervisors Tuesday approved the lease on an approximately 200-bed SAFE Navigation Center in the Upper Market area of the city.
A 10-cent per square-foot building tax to raise $19.3 million for wildfire prevention measures in Marin County is trailing late Tuesday night.
With hundreds of California voters still waiting in long lines at the close of polling, Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders asked a federal court to issue an emergency order to keep polls open for an extra 2 hours.
The search for a body in a decades-old homicide case entered its second day in Los Gatos, as San Jose Police, the lead agency in the effort, brought in cadaver dogs to try and detect any trace of human remains.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering a proposed $369,000 settlement with a freelance journalist whose home and office were raided by police last year.
Health officials all around the world are struggling to keep the Coronavirus contained. But there is one group of people that would pose an even tougher challenge if the virus should invade their ranks: the homeless.
