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High school students across the Bay Area are invited to apply for the 2026 Norman Mineta Bay Area High School Academy, a paid summer program designed to introduce young people to careers in public service and regional leadership.

This four-week academy offers students a chance to explore how...

After nearly three years of public discussion, technical analysis and refinement, the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission last Friday released the proposed final Plan Bay Area 2050+ and the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Plan Bay Area 2050+.

The Association of Bay Area Governments’ San Francisco Estuary Partnership affiliate on Tuesday, Oct. 28 and Wednesday, Oct. 29, will hold its biannual conference, bringing together hundreds of regional experts to discuss the management and ecological health of the San Francisco Estuary. The State...

The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA)’s work to preserve existing housing that lower- and middle-income residents can afford got an important boost last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 670, which allows local governments throughout California to count investments in preserving unsubsidized affordable housing toward the annual progress reports used to assess the housing elements of cities’ and counties’ adopted general plans.

After more than two years of public discussion, technical analyses and refinement, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) today released Draft Plan Bay Area 2050+ and the Plan Bay Area 2050+ Draft Environmental Impact Report for public...

San Francisco Bay stands out as an exception to the worldwide trend toward wetland destruction. In a rare bit of positive environmental news, a new report from the Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) indicates that restored tidal wetlands in the Bay almost quadrupled from 2000 to 2020, bringing the total to 53,000 acres and growing.

Bay Area high school students are encouraged to apply for the Norman Mineta Bay Area Summer Academy, a paid program that introduces Bay Area high school students to public sector career pathways through exposure to regional policy issues such as transportation planning, housing and air quality...

The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) this month elected City of East Palo Alto Councilmember Carlos Romero as vice president of the regional planning agency and council of governments. Romero will serve until Dec. 31, 2025, replacing former Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín as vice president...

Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) leaders today joined the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) and community partners to break ground on EBALDC’s 97-unit Chinatown Senior Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) apartments adjacent to the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland...

The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)’s San Francisco Estuary Partnership partnered with 11 community partners working in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Bay Area and the California Indian Environmental Alliance along with Simple Lab, an environmental testing service, specializing in laboratory logistics and sampling, to test tap water for its newly released Tap Water Testing Report.