Fremont CA

After much debate and despite strident opposition, Oakland installed Flock cameras this week at 18 locations, making it likely that if you drive through the city, your license plate will be scanned — possibly multiple times — and stored in a database. In a 7-1 vote, with Councilmember...

WALNUT CREEK, CALIFORNIA – For months, we walked by the future site of Walnut Creek’s new, massive, fancy Italian spot and saw nothing but activity. Not diners, mind you, but construction workers. For months, the workers systematically gutted the interior of the future restaurant. The front draped in...

Authorities identified Jorge Alberto Rivas Rodriguez as the victim killed in a shooting last week at a popular flea market in Oakland.

San Francisco Police Department officers were alerted about 1:10 p.m. to a stolen vehicle near the area of 3rd and Evan Street, the department told KTVU. Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the department reported that it refused to yield and instead led the SFPD on a pursuit that led onto the Bay Bridge.

Five earthquakes have rattled California’s Bay Area, putting communities from Gilroy to San Jose on alert and renewing questions about what comes next. I will walk through what is known so far about the sequence, where it hit hardest, how far the shaking spread, and what the latest mapping and swarm data suggest for...

The union representing 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care professionals across California and Hawaii, the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, on Thursday issued a 10-day notice to strike, with walkouts possible from San Jose to San Diego and Honolulu starting Jan....

A San Francisco Victorian from 1880 is on the market for just the second time, and it includes a park in the backyard.

Berkeley police arrested a man in Texas who is suspected of seven kidnappings and sexual assaults in Berkeley and Oakland between 1994 and 2008. The breakthrough in the case was through a state grant that funded the processing of over 500 cold sexual assault cases. [Bay Area News Group]. BART...

"A billionaire’s change of heart can destabilize vulnerable families." Aerial photo reveals concerning trend among billionaires in San Francisco: 'I'll never understand' first appeared on The Cool Down .

The Port of Oakland has narrowed the search for a redeveloper of Howard Terminal to two finalists: the Oakland Roots Sports Club and Industrial Realty Group. The move refocuses attention on the 55-acre waterfront parcel that was once tied to an A’s stadium effort now abandoned. As reported by...