Fremont CA

Safeway confirmed some Bay Area stores have brought back paper bags with handles after customer complaints about handleless bags.

However, it will reopen as a new hot dog restaurant.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (KRON) — Chain linked fences, dilapidated parking lots, and cinder blocks are some of the things people see while visiting parts of San Leandro’s grungy shoreline. On Thursday, East Bay officials vowed to turn the waterfront’s blight into beauty. Congresswoman Lateefah Simon recently secured a $1,092,000 Community Project Funding grant for San […]

Ruby Ibarra is a Filipina musician who grew up in San Lorenzo, where she discovered representation through spoken word. For a young Filipina-American growing up in the East Bay, she said representation was rare, pushing her to create space for stories like her own. That storytelling continues in her latest...

This story is part of How We Get By, a KQED series exploring how people are coping with rising costs in the Bay Area and California. Find the full series here. You don’t need to sit down at one of the Bay Area’s posh and trendy temples of fine dining to know that eating out in the year 2026 is too damn expensive. These...

The shooting marked Fremont’s second homicide of the year.

A man was shot and killed Thursday night after allegedly pointing a firearm at officers during a welfare check at the San Leandro Marina, according to police. The San Leandro Police Department said officers responded at 8:07 p.m. after receiving a request to check on a man who had reportedly made suicidal statements to a friend and was said to be suffering from...

Jose Mendoza, 30, was charged with felony evasion and misdemeanor battery of a police officer

On Saturday, tourists and locals passing through Union Square will find more than just the usual cable cars, big-box retailers and historic hotels. Instead, a huge, bustling Taiwanese market, not unlike a scene one might see in Taipei, will occupy the district’s central plaza — dozens upon dozens of vendors selling T-shirts, cute handmade stationery, artisanal soy sauce, boba drinks and, of course...

FREMONT — An electronics manufacturer has deepened its Bay Area roots with a deal to buy its headquarters and production center in Fremont, a purchase that offers hopeful signs for the region’s tech sector. Wislab EMS paid $61 million for its primary work hub at 4211 Starboard Dr....