Sonoma County resident dies after eating wild mushrooms as poisoning spikes
Experts warn that washing, cooking, and preparing poisonous mushrooms does not neutralize the toxins. If you eat them, you are in grave danger.
Bay Area leaders demand answers from Coast Guard as Mare Island Dry Dock shutters
(KRON) — Following the announcement of Mare Island Dry Dock (MIDD) closing its facility in Vallejo and eliminating the jobs of 84 workers, Bay Area leaders are questioning why the U.S. Coast Guard awarded a recent contract to a bidder who reportedly wanted $1.5 million more than MIDD. Losing the multi-million dollar...
Santa Clara County Main Jail Cracks Down on Inmate Drug Smuggling
An alert from inside the walls of the County of Santa Clara Main Jail led to the discovery of illegal drugs secreted away in the cells and on the person of an inmate, per a social media post by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's deputies conducted a search and found handmade cigarettes with the...
Bay Area immigrants’ rights groups react to ICE shooting
Immigrant support groups in the Bay Area are reacting to the shooting death of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minnesota this week.
San Jose mayor addresses homelessness after Newsom’s State of the State speech
Governor Gavin Newsom touted a reduction in homelessness in the state; an issue that's been front and center in so many Bay Area cities - San Jose among them. In his final state of the state address, Newsom touted early data showing homelessness plummeted in California in 2025, the biggest drop in 15 years.
Cluster of earthquakes strikes near San Ramon
A 3.0 magnitude quake was detected east of San Ramon, followed by two smaller ones Friday morning.
Over 2,000 East Bay residents bought e-bikes with vouchers in the last 6 months
An e-bike rebate program run by a local energy agency had a massive impact in its first six months, with nearly 2,746 new e-bikes — including 762 in Oakland — subsidized in its first six months. Ava Community Energy, formerly East Bay Community Energy, partnered with the Alameda...
Tracy man sentenced to prison for murder-for-hire plot
SACRAMENTO, California - Shaminderjit Singh Sandhu, a 52-year-old from Tracy, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, according to U.S. Attorney Eric Grant. Sandhu, along with Jagninder Singh Boparai, 49, of Manteca,...
DA charges man with murder in Oakland’s 1st homicide of 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. - The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has charged a man with murder in Oakland's first homicide of 2026. Police arrested 42-year-old Brian Spikes Hopkins in connection with the shooting death of 47-year-old Edward Williams. Investigators say Williams was shot and killed near 20th Street and...
Budweiser shuts down after $54M hit as Bay Area’s last brewery dies
The last big Budweiser outpost in the Bay Area is going dark after a reported $54 million hit, ending a half century of industrial-scale beer making in Fairfield and leaving a hole in the region’s manufacturing map. The shutdown of the Fairfield Budweiser brewery is more than a corporate cost-cutting move, it is a...

















