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Day-Trip to These 5 Undiscovered State Parks Near San Francisco

Offering every terrain from mountain tops to tide pools, the Bay Area has more than forty state parks to explore.

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A look at the list of the largest layoffs of 2023 finds three of the year’s top 10—Google, Meta and Salesforce—are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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A Standard analysis found only 53% of pre-pandemic retailers on the streets of the historic shopping district are still open today.

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Day-Trip to These 5 Undiscovered State Parks Near San Francisco

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