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Zhibek Zhusubalieva stands outside her food truck, Silq Road, in Mountain View. Courtesy Silq Road. Parked in an unassuming Valero gas station in Mountain View is a food truck serving juicy shish kebab and flaky samsa cooked in a tandoor. The food is halal and created by a 23-year-old San Jose State student, Zhibek Zhusubalieva. Zhusubalieva is from Kyrgyzstan, and she came to the Bay Area to study graphic design.

Chatbot intelligence AI. Courtesy Getty. Character Technologies, the company behind the chatbot platform Character.AI, announced on Monday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Character.AI – which lists its headquarters in Menlo Park and has an office in Redwood City – allows users to chat with customizable fictional and real characters, and is popular among anime, gaming and fanfiction communities that enjoy digital companionship. Its core audience is young people under the age of 24.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. Los agentes de inmigración están sembrando el pánico en los colegios comunitarios de California. El Santa Monica College informó que uno de sus estudiantes fue arrestado y deportado en mayo pasado.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. En 2014, residentes y grupos ambientalistas argumentaron en una demanda que un proyecto vial del Departamento de Transporte de California (Caltrans) que atravesaría el Parque Estatal Richardson Grove no había evaluado adecuadamente el daño que podría causar a las secuoyas.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. El próximo gobernador de California deberá lidiar con un estado de extremos, donde el clima oscila entre la sequía y el diluvio, y el agua divide el territorio de las piscinas en los patios traseros de los lugares donde las abuelas temen bañar a sus nietos con agua del grifo.

An attendee carries his cousin on his shoulders while watching performances at a Día de los Muertos celebration at Courthouse Square in Redwood City on Nov. 2, 2025. Photo by Seeger Gray. Redwood City’s annual Día de los Muertos celebration will return to Courthouse Square on Sunday, Nov. 8, with a theme inspired by the traditions and Indigenous heritage of Tlaxcala, Mexico.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article is also available in English. Read it here. En un local comercial poco iluminado cerca del centro de Fresno, una familia se reunió para guardar luto. Llevaban camisetas conmemorativas, encendieron velas y contaron historias sobre su patriarca entre lágrimas y sollozos. Luis Arreguin no murió, pero para sus seres queridos más cercanos, es como si así fuera.

A Redwood City storm drain. Photo by Leah Worthington As a strong El Niño season brews, Redwood City has launched a new program to help neighborhoods prepare for heavy rain and flooding. Called “Adopt-a-Drain”, the program allows residents to adopt a neighborhood storm drain, name it and help keep it clear of leaves and debris throughout the rainy season to reduce localized flooding, according to a city news release.

*|DATE:F j, Y|* Good morning, Redwood City! Happy Halloween month. Photo by Michelle Iracheta Our inbox is always open. If you’d like to contribute a photo to our Express newsletter, have a story idea or simply want to submit a comment, please email us at editor@rwcpulse.com. You can also submit your comment or opinion here. -Michelle, Editor As a strong El Niño season brews, Redwood City has launched a new program to help neighborhoods prepare for heavy rain and flooding.

A few years after moving into our house in Palo Alto, I decided to remove a large silver maple from the backyard. It was planted close to the house so the maple’s canopy shaded both the yard and the rooms inside, making the home dark. Moreover, each fall I had to get up on a ladder every few weeks to clean out the gutters. That tree was not my favorite. A large silver maple close behind the house darkened both the yard and the interior of the home, and also filled the gutters with leaves.