Press Releases

With the Bay Area still working to shake off the jarring and painful effects of the COVID pandemic while long-standing problems like astronomical h...

Almost one full year of survey data provided by Bay Area employers shows the post-pandemic “new normal” for in-person office work and public tr...

In the wake of an abusive and shameful California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) lawsuit that effectively will deny enrollment to thousands of UC...

Today (Feb. 28) the California Resilience Challenge, an initiative of the Bay Area Council Foundation, announced the 13 winners of its $2 million 2...

Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced the reappointment of Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman as Chair of the Water Emergency Transportation Agency (WE...

The Bay Area Council today (Jan. 31) issued the following statement on the demise of AB 1400, single-payer healthcare legislation that was pulled f...

California’s first-in-the-nation paid family leave (PFL) program is almost two decades old and a new in-depth Bay Area Council Economic Institute...

The Bay Area Council today (Sept. 16) applauded Gov. Gavin Newsom for signing urgency legislation (AB 1174, Tim Grayson) immediately eliminating a ...

The Bay Area Council today (Aug. 31) announced it is formally recommending all private sector employers, businesses and other organizations require...

The Bay Area commute may never be the same again, but what that means for the region’s highways and mass transit systems still remains to be seen...