Fremont CA

A federal grand jury has indicted two Bay Area businessmen, a Chinese national, two local companies and a Chinese company with an elaborate scheme to evade more than $109 million in custom duties and international money laundering. In an indictment unsealed Thursday, prosecutors said Xin Mian Pan of San Francisco,...

As the Bay Area braces for an atmospheric river-fueled rainstorm, a potentially stronger system is on the horizon — one that could meet the criteria for a bomb cyclone and bring damaging winds.

On December 16, 2025, the Dublin City Council in California unanimously passed a resolution formally opposing reopening or reusing the notorious FCI Dublin prison for detention of any kind, including as an immigration jail. The resolution also urged the relevant federal agencies to “engage in open and transparent...

The crash, which occurred around 12:30 a.m., shut down northbound lanes of the highway for several hours.

This post originally appeared on the Traffic Violence Rapid Response website and is published here with permission. Last week, OakDOT and AC Transit shared the results of the International BRT Safety Project and frankly the results are an eye-popping success. Traffic calming infrastructure saves lives. Please write...

A series of earthquakes rattled the San Ramon area Friday night, with the largest being a preliminary magnitude 4.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

(KRON) — BART was experiencing delays system-wide on Friday afternoon due to an unauthorized person on the trackway earlier. According to Bay Area Rapid Transit, the person was on the tracks somewhere between the Macarthur and 19th Street stations in downtown Oakland. Initially, BART said train service in the area...

(KRON) — The Oakland Police Department is investigating a homicide that occurred in the early morning hours Friday. OPD responded at around 3:15 a.m. to a report of a shooting in the 1600 block of Solano Way. Arriving at the scene, officers found two people with apparent gunshot wounds. One of them was pronounced...

(KRON) — A 38-year-old man who was killed during a “family dispute” inside a Concord home was identified by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office Friday. Deputies found Antonio Valdez of Antioch deceased, and three people injured, when they arrived at the home on Laurel Drive Dec. 15. Valdez’s death is being...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Two men pled guilty in federal court in connection to a string of robberies in the East Bay in early 2024, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California (USANDC) said in a statement. Jaray Washington, 42, of Oakland pled guilty Friday to committing eight armed robberies...