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The Bay Area’s Year in Photos: Protests, Political Upheaval and Joyous Resistance

KQED photographers spent the year capturing the biggest stories affecting the Bay Area and California. Here’s a collection of some of the highlights.

San Francisco Recovery Slumps as the Future of Its Downtown Mall Hangs in Limbo

Next steps for San Francisco Centre mall are uncertain, while the city focuses its recovery efforts on street-level revitalization efforts and clean-ups.

A Very Santa Rosa Christmas at Snoopy’s Home Ice

In 1969, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz and his first wife Joyce built Snoopy’s Home Ice in Santa Rosa. Since then, generations of locals have made it a tradition to visit the skating rink, especially during the holidays.

Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104

Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black history, women’s stories and overlooked voices in the Bay Area and beyond.
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PG&E Gives Monday Afternoon Deadline for Full Power Restoration After Huge Outage

PGE said it was investigating the cause of the outage which knocked out power for 130,000 homes and businesses at its peak Saturday afternoon.

40,000 People Died on California Roads. State Leaders Looked Away

‘If these people’s children had been killed by a drunk driver, there is no way they would be objecting to this.’

San Francisco Immigration Court Down to Four Judges After New Departures

The latest firings and retirements are part of a nationwide push by the Department of Justice to remove judges deemed too generous to asylum seekers, while shrinking courts push already backlogged cases years into the future.

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