SF News Billy Beane's Water Use Was 24 Times That Of His Neighbors This Year The Executive Vice President of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, is a rich man. And, as is often the case with rich men, Beane appears to be used to getting what he wants.
SF News Today In Bay Area Dead Whales: Juvenile Gray Whale Washes Up In Wildlife Refuge In the fifth such incident since April, a "badly decomposed" whale turned up on a Bay Area beach late Wednesday, this one at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. East
SF News One Killed And Five Injured After 80-Year-Old Woman Drives Her SUV Through A Livermore Gym An elderly woman, possibly experiencing "pedal confusion," plowed her Mercedes SUV through a gym where a number of people were in the middle of a group exercise class in Livermore early this morning.
SF News BART Service Resumes Following Early-Morning Train Fire [Updated] San Leandro Bart station- it's closed! Everyone who walks up and sees this- well, their jaw drops. #nowwhat? pic.twitter.com/VNisftVEr8— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) July 9, 2015 BART service has resumed following
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonic Drive-Ins Coming To Oakland, Pleasanton, And Elsewhere The Oklahoma-based Sonic Drive-In, which you probably have seen many commercials for but have not necessarily sampled yourself if you've only lived in the inner Bay Area most of your life (or Manhattan
SF News BART Still Isn't Sure How You'll Get Across The Bay During This Summer's Weekend Shutdowns The news for BART riders just keeps getting worse and worse. The transit system's persistent issues with their aging tracks cause near-daily disruptions and delays, weekend East Bay riders need to switch to
SF News Giant Sea Slugs Are Coming For You, East Bay East Bay residents are shocked at the sudden invasion of unexpected, slimy creatures—and it's not tech bros finding new neighborhoods to gentrify. Giant sea slugs known as sea hares are appearing in
SF News Blame The Drought: East Bay Residents Complaining About Smelly Tap Water Be thankful there's still a healthy trickle coming out of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, San Francisco. Our neighbors to the east, who depend on other reservoirs for their drinking water, have experienced one
SF News Yet Another Local TV News Crew Robbed Of Their Equipment In The East Bay A female KTVU reporter and her cameraman were robbed of their equipment early Wednesday morning outside a doughnut shop in Hayward, marking the umpteenth time an incident like this has happened in the
SF News Tom Hanks Lends Support For President's Community College Plan, Says Chabot College 'Made Me What I Am Today' Oscar winner and recent Kennedy Center honoree Tom Hanks has voiced his full support in a NYT op-ed for President Obama's proposal to make two years of free community college available to all
SF News Pair Of Despicable Package Thieves Nabbed In East Bay With Carload Of Christmas Loot A duo claiming to be "transients" from San Francisco were arrested Wednesday after being spotted in a couple of East Bay neighborhood acting shady and swiping packages from peoples' front doors. ON CHRISTMAS
SF News BART And AC Transit Launch New And More Frequent Overnight Bus Service This Weekend Good news, all you East Bay party people who enjoy cavorting in the Mission: At a press conference on Tuesday morning BART and AC Transit officials are unveiling the final details of a
SF News The East Bay Races: Oakland Gets A New Mayor, Chevron's Candidate Fails In Richmond, and More And, wrapping up today's election coverage, I bring you news from across the Bay, where Oakland ousted its incumbent mayor, Richmond elected a progressive candidate despite Chevron's million-dollar campaign against him, and a
SF News BART Service Resumes After Dead Body Is Discovered On Tracks [Updated] BART service was shut down for hours Monday between their East Bay stations of Pleasant Hill and Pittsburg/Bay Point while their police officers investigated reports of "blood and possible human remains" on
Arts & Entertainment Tarantulas Take Over East Bay Park To Make Crazy Spider Whoopee Apologies to all you arachnophobes out there! But it's tarantula mating season right now in the East Bay, and we thought you'd want to know. Though the burrowing creatures live "a solitary, nocturnal
SF News BART's Summer Of Bomb Threats Continues With West Oakland Scare Tuesday Night It's been a wild month of bomb scares at East Bay BART stations! In the latest incident last night, their service was disrupted for about two hours while a bomb squad investigated a
SF News Video Released Of East Bay State Senate Candidate Shoplifting At Neiman-Marcus San Francisco has seen its fair share of political scandals — Ed Lee, for example, was never really elected to office, ran a fabricated grassroots campaign, and now, among other ostensibly benign wonk atrocities,
SF News Crash-And-Grab Thief Turns Berkeley Apple Store Into A Drive-Thru #apple customers being turned away on 4th st in #Berkeley after Pontiac slams into store-- BPD says items stolen pic.twitter.com/xnBQlqze2n— Mike Mibach KTVU (@MibachKTVU) May 9, 2014 Friday morning around
SF News Teen Father Arrested For Biting Off Infant Son's Nose An 18-year-old man was arrested for allegedly biting off part of his infant son's nose because the child would not stop crying, police said Thursday. Police in the San Francisco Bay Area city
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 21st Amendment Will Expand Beer Operations To East Bay, Nationwide Noted Second Street brewpub and beer outfit 21st Amendment will be expanding their reach to the East Bay — and likely the rest of the country — starting this Fall with the opening of a
SF News [Updated] BART Riders Exposed To Potentially Fatal Disease By UC Berkeley Student BART spokespeople sent a rather alarming message to media Thursday afternoon, saying that East Bay passengers might have been exposed to the measles. According to BART spokesman Jim Allison, "a person infected with
SF News Alameda County Is So Hot Right Now As everyone's neighbor, friend and coworker packs up and ships out, overwhelming anecdotal evidence that everyone is moving to Oakland is now confirmed by hard numbers. Alameda and Santa Clara counties gained more
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: MacArthur BART In The Sun Sun-kissed tiles at MacArthur BART station, shot by Ariel Dovas.
SF News Oakland Gas Line Ruptures, Sets Street On Fire Around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, an underground gas line in Oakland's Eastmont neighborhood ruptured, spilling gas and setting fire to a residential street. Aerial footage from NBC Bay Area shows the street
SF News East Oakland Shooting Marks Oakland's 84th Homicide Of 2013 An Oakland resident was shot outside his home on the 3100 block of Coolidge Avenue at about 10 p.m. Sunday night. The victim has not yet been identified. A suspect or suspects
