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    Sunday, December 28th 2025

    Today's e-Edition

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    Transportation

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    Disabled BART train temporarily delays service on Saturday

    A San Francisco bound BART train arrives at the Orinda Station in Orinda, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
    BART said on the social media platform X that a disabled train led to delays on the Red, Blue and Green lines on Saturday.
    A San Francisco bound BART train arrives at the Orinda Station in Orinda, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
    FILE – Flight times are displayed at O’Hare airport in Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

    Winter storm snarls holiday travel across US Northeast, Great Lakes

    A drone view of traffic on Highway 24 eastbound, right, heading towards the Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

    Caldecott Tunnel bores reopen Friday night

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      Highway 87 lanes reopened after floods caused closures early Thursday

    Traffic

    A drone view of traffic on Highway 24 eastbound, right, heading towards the Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

    Caldecott Tunnel bores reopen Friday night

    The mechanical issue was caused by a string of powerful storms that slammed into the Bay Area this week.
    • A whimsical last-minute design change, and other inside stories of the Bay Bridge

    • If you’re traveling for Christmas or New Year’s, brace for this

    BART

    A San Francisco bound BART train arrives at the Orinda Station in Orinda, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

    Disabled BART train temporarily delays service on Saturday

    BART said on the social media platform X that a disabled train led to delays on the Red, Blue and Green lines on Saturday.
    • Caltrain ridership surged 57% in 2025, but funding cliff looms

    • Man dies after being hit by train near Oakland BART station

    • Car falls onto BART tracks in Castro Valley, interrupting service

    Gas Prices

    A person selling Turning Point merchandise is arrested after getting into a confrontation with a protester in front of the “This Is the Turning Point" campus tour event at the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (Douglas Despres/for the Bay Area News Group)

    Letters: Turning Point fracas at Cal bodes ill for free speech

    Also: Clean air | Safety at stake | Third term | Maritime killings | Health care threat. East Bay Times reader letters to the editor for Nov. 18, 2025.
    • Gov. Newsom’s gas price crusade morphs into bid to keep refiners open

    • North Coast under renewed threat of offshore oil drilling, leaked documents show

    • Can a new pipeline give California drivers some relief at the gas pump?

    Air Travel

    FILE – Flight times are displayed at O’Hare airport in Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

    Winter storm snarls holiday travel across US Northeast, Great Lakes

    The National Weather Service warned of hazardous travel conditions from the Great Lakes through the...
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    U.S. Travel

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