Standing in a picket line outside the Crockett refinery where she usually packages sugar cubes, Kendra Sparks took a drag from her cigarette and nodded toward a nearby silo. On it was a pink-and-blue sign with the California and Hawaiian Sugar...
Every morning after her swim, Sophia, the oldest Magellanic penguin at San Francisco Zoo, is greeted by name by Megan Brubaker, the penguin keeper. But one morning last December, when Sophia did not respond to her name with her usual braying...
Near the end of BART’s Yellow Line, at a tiny station in east Contra Costa County, sits the most bludgeoned fare gate in the rail system. It’s one of the “next generation” gates, installed in March 2025 at the end of a single array on the...
Three customers. Three plates of spaghetti. That was the lunch rush at Keyvan Nabavizadeh’s Italian restaurant on a recent weekday. He cooked the food, carried it to the table and cleared the plates in a dining room built for nearly 50...
