Deputy Politics Editor

Hannah Wiley

“It can’t be that this arms race for AI comes at the expense of innocent lives,” Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan said in a Q&A with The Standard.

Some constituents who helped put the mayor in office are outraged by his support of a housing development proposal. 

The bank has started to bleed key executives in the wake of its purchase by North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank.


The ‘rooted in Oakland’ box truck is now in…um…Alamo.

Hundreds of astrobiologists, space engineers, alien researchers, and UFO hunters descended on the Bay Area last month for two unrelated events.