‘Absolute hell’: Residents struggle against nature, bureaucrats, banks and builders to recover from 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains inferno

Just a month after she bought her red-doored dream home, Ana Wold’s little gray Boulder Creek house burned to the ground in the 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains firestorm. Now she’s walking away from a half-built replacement, putting it up for …

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Trash bags and security guards revitalized Concord’s historic Todos Santos Plaza. The program responsible is now going broke.

CONCORD — A half-million dollar pilot program that drastically curbed complaints of crime and grime in its historic Todos Santos Plaza in the wake of the pandemic is rapidly running out of money. Failing to privately secure enough cash to last …

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‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ is coming to a San Francisco stage: ‘We’re not going to ruin your childhood’

The DeLorean can talk, Goldie Wilson has an expanded role and Doc Brown’s backstory will be revealed on stage at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre this month. “Back to the Future” made two sequels following the original film’s massive success in …

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