A new batch of 480 car-surveilling security cameras are going up on the streets and highways of Oakland, in Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to crack down on Oakland crime.
A man who had been living the suburban dream in the East Bay with twin daughters and a doctor husband ended up in a messy divorce. And perhaps in a bid for custody of their children, his husband turned him in to police for a crime he had privately confessed to years earlier.
The steady stream of mechanical problems with Boeing jets on United Airlines continues, this time with a Thursday night flight to Paris that only made it as far as Denver, because of engine issues.
Two men who were in a vehicle driving the wrong way up an I-580 ramp near the Bay Bridge toll plaza earlier this month and collided with a BMW, killing the driver, are facing multiple charges, and one has been charged with the BMW driver's murder.
There was a homicide Thursday night in Hallidie Plaza, outside the Powell Street BART/Muni station, and it is under investigation.
The SF Unified School District is getting a bunch of money from that Juul settlement; an arrest was made in a Wednesday freeway shooting in the East Bay; and Biden's fundraiser with Clinton and Obama in NYC raised $25 million.
BART is touting that they’re arresting lots more people on their trains these days; the Giants sadly released Pablo Sandoval once and for all; and the Oakland A’s refused to open their parking lot Thursday afternoon because of fan protesters.
Bay Area music legends Green Day are putting on a show next week at the historic, and very intimate Fillmore, and tickets are available to the public.
A raid on a cigarette shop in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood turned up pounds of marijuana, cases of illegal menthols, two loaded guns, and what police call “suspected crystal methamphetamine.”
Ex-Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli was accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women, but the state AG’s office says they don’t have the evidence to prosecute him, though several accusers’ civil cases will still proceed.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are in San Francisco for shows tonight and Sunday, and in their honor, the city has temporarily renamed Warriors Way, aka South Street, in the band's honor.
An East Bay man now faces up to 14 years in state prison for an unhinged incident last fall that began at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
The rain is still coming as California's typical rainy season is winding down, and rainfall totals show an above-average season for parts of the Bay Area, which is great news for mitigating the drought.
A nine-year-old in Oroville took the liberty of grabbing his mom’s car keys and driving her car to school, but things ended poorly for the youngster when he ended up in a chase with a Highway Patrol car, which he then rammed into.
The popular outdoor nighttime street fair Oakland First Fridays has been on hiatus since January, but recently announced they’re bringing the event back for the First Friday of April, next Friday, April 5.
Fallen crypto mogul and Bay Area native Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday morning to 25 years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion.
Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie got an endorsement from former mayor Frank Jordan Wednesday; a pedestrian was struck and killed on 101 in San Jose; and a documentary is being made about the disappearance of Alexis Gabe.
Benecia police announced the arrests of three people connected to a bank robbery; the reward has been upped to $250K for information in a 2022 shooting case in SF; and a mountain lion sighting in South SF was just a big gray cat.
The SF International Film Festival SFFILM just announced its 2024 lineup, with an Opening Night feature shot in Fremont, and a Closing Night feature that has the final screen appearance of the late Richard Roundtree (“Shaft”).
New SF Giants manager Bob Melvin has some freshly added weapons in reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell and Korean superstar Jung Hoo Lee, as the Giants start their 2024 season Thursday against the San Diego Padres.
The family of double-murder victims Maria and Benison Tran, who were fatally shot in their Dublin home in September 2022, were protesting Wednesday over a reduced charging decision by Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
An officer-involved shooting occurred in Pacifica Wednesday morning, and reportedly the person shot was a woman who had just shot her adult son.
A Concord man who left threatening messages on the office voicemails of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 11 months in federal prison.
Brother to the famed local defense attorney Tony Serra, internationally renowned metal sculptor Richard Serra may be best known locally for sculptures so huge that they blocked traffic in SoMa, but he passed Tuesday in New York from pneumonia.
A light sentence for a high-profile stabbing suspect led to a protest outside San Francisco's Hall of Justice last week. But some legal experts and judges say that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins overstepped by criticizing the sentence.
