NCS basketball playoffs 2025: Thursday’s results, updated matchups

Boys basketball Open Division Thursday’s opening round No. 1 De La Salle (25-4), bye No. 2 Salesian (25-2), bye No. 4 Dublin 65, No. 5 Liberty 47 No. 3 San Ramon Valley 77, No. 6 California 49 Wednesday’s semifinals No. 4 Dublin (24-5) at No.1 De La Salle (25-4), 7 p.m. No. 3 San Ramon … Read more

Wednesday’s Bay Area basketball playoffs: Top storylines, surprises, trends, more

CARONDELET: COUGARS READY FOR SRV RUBBER MATCH Third-seeded Carondelet’s junior point guard Sophia Ross did not mince words after her Cougars routed host No. 6 Salesian 83-55 in the first round of the North Coast Section Open Division playoffs.  The matchup at rival and second-seeded San Ramon Valley was set, and there is no opponent … Read more

Get Ready To Feel The Heat – CBD Ginger Shot Recipe

Test Tribe’s Spicy CBD Ginger Shot While turmeric is today’s “rockstar rhizome,” that doesn’t mean ginger root is any less incredible. Indeed, you’ve probably seen dozens of hot ginger shots pop up in your supermarket’s fridge section recently. Anyone who wants a spicy start to their day can’t do better than cold-pressed ginger juice! While … Read more

PG&E’s $2.4B in profits are built on ratepayers’ backs

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. PG&E profits built onratepayers’ backs Re: “PG&E reports profit of $2B-plus” (Page A1, Feb. 14). How can PG&E be allowed to post billions of dollars in profit year after year to pay shareholders yet have rate increases repeatedly approved by … Read more

Trump’s military decisions are a foreign policy disaster

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Trump military decisionsa foreign policy disaster Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi is troubled by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s “rookie mistake.” Being a rookie usually means that a person has met the criteria for joining the team and will be … Read more

Hamas releases 4 bodies, Israel says 1 is not who they claimed

By Melanie Lidman, Mohammad Jahjouh and Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel — The remains of two child hostages have been identified but another body released by Hamas was not the boys’ mother, the Israeli military said early Friday. Hamas militants had turned over four bodies Thursday under the tenuous ceasefire that has … Read more

Trump admin launches investigation into California high-speed rail

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into California’s high-speed rail project — what could be the first step in clawing back the $4 billion promised by the Biden administration to build out the first section of the line, from Merced to Bakersfield. “For too long, taxpayers have subsidized the massively over-budget and delayed California … Read more

Felix Art Fair Opens With Early Sales and Enthusiasm for Smaller Works

Felix Art Fair opened on Wednesday, February 19, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Felix Art Fair Nobody would have predicted, just a month ago, that L.A. would rally back with such force for this year’s Los Angeles Art Week, especially after last month’s devastating fires. Yet on Tuesday, February 19, the art world gathered at … Read more

Satya Nadella Unveils Microsoft’s Quantum Chip: a New State of Matter

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip contains eight topological qubits. John Brecher for Microsoft For a field that many have long considered decades away, quantum computing sure is getting a lot of buzz in Silicon Valley. Yesterday (Feb. 19), Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled a quantum chip known as Majorana 1, created with an entirely new state of matter that’s … Read more