Fourth of July 2025: The best parades, festivals and fireworks across the Bay Area
Here’s a region by region guide to Fourth of July celebrations — fireworks and drone shows, parades, county fairs and more in the Bay Area.
New Alameda County report finds racial, economic disparities in gun deaths
The report found that Black residents in Alameda County are 33 times more likely to die from gun-related homicide than white residents, and the county's poorest neighborhoods in West Oakland face risks eight times higher than the county's wealthiest areas.
If California pauses new local building codes, it risks slowing climate progress
Guest Commentary written by David Cohen David Cohen is a San José city council member Vicki Veenker Vicki Veenker is Palo Alto’s vice mayor With the devastating Los Angeles blazes still fresh in memory, cities across the Bay Area region are developing plans to lower the climate-heating emissions that are fanning the...
Family pleads for help finding missing Oakland woman Heaven McGee, last seen in Stockton
An Oakland woman who went missing in January and is believed to be a human trafficking victim was last seen in Stockton, authorities said. Heaven McGee, 21, was last seen in Stockton on Jan. 20. She has ties to Oakland, San Jose and Stockton, according to the FBI. McGee's family joined the Oakland Police Department...
San Leandro man slain while walking dog identified
(KRON) — A man who was walking his dog in a San Leandro neighborhood was shot and killed earlier this month. On Friday, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau identified the victim as Ryan M. Christie, 47, of San Leandro. Christie was walking his dog on the morning of June 14 along Euclid Avenue […]
Trapped baby raccoon rescued in Alameda County
A baby raccoon stuck between a storage shed and a fence was freed by rescuers in Livermore on Wednesday.
3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks seized, 3 arrested in San Jose police raids
San Jose police arrested three men and seized more than 3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks in a series of recent raids, SJPD said Friday. San Jose residents David Benito-Carbajal, 31, Juan Rocha, 52, and Javier Martinez, 26, were arrested and booked into Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of multiple felonies...
S.F. gave these homeless nonprofits nearly $2 billion. The salaries of their execs might...
Nonprofits serving the homeless work with San Francisco’s poorest people, yet some of their executives are earning salaries and benefits totaling more than double the city’s average household income.
Caltrans studies Oakland’s I-980 and possibilities for its future: Here are the options
Interstate 980 goes through Oakland, but there's a possibility that that will change in the years to come. Here are the three scenarios being considered.
Bay Area on track for coldest June in decades. Here’s when it could shift
Parts of the Bay Area are within striking distance of measuring the coldest June in decades as cool ocean temperatures turbocharge the marine layer.
