Oakland motel to be converted into affordable housing
A motel in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood is slated to be converted to housing for homeless people thanks in part to a seven-million dollar state grant. City officials said earlier yesterday (Monday) the California Homekey money is intended to help buy and rehab the Maya Motel on Telegraph Ave. The Oaklandside...
Mayor Lee announces new Oakland office focused on homelessness
Mayor Barbara Lee is creating a new high-level city office dedicated to tackling the homelessness crisis in Oakland. The “Office of Homelessness Solutions” will oversee the city’s work on encampments and shelters, and keep track of data — efforts that are currently carried out by different departments in the city —...
A Palo Alto scientist’s $10M plan to kill Calif. redistricting
Charles Munger Jr., a Palo Alto physicist, put $10 million toward opposing Prop. 50.
Search Intensifies for Missing At-Risk San Lorenzo Man Last Seen Near Bakersfield
Concern is mounting for 29-year-old Enrique Perez, who was reported missing after last being seen on Sunday, near his San Lorenzo home. He left around 6:30 p.m., driving a 2013 Gray Audi A4, with California license plate number 9JMG513. According to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office social media post, Perez's...
Medicaid Cuts Hammer Everyone’s Care, Not Just Recipients’
We all hope that we never need the care of a medical trauma center. But if, for example, you’re seriously burned in a house fire today, you’ll be at Valley Medical Center in less than half an hour, getting the state-of-the-art burn care. Now imagine that the closest...
Skydiving legend Sean MacCormac ‘skysurfs’ the Bay Bridge in world-first stunt
Red Bull athlete and skysurfing pioneer Sean MacCormac made history by becoming the first person to grind on a bridge, jumping over 5,500 feet from the sky before riding down the Bay Bridge's suspension cables.
1 killed in South Bay wrong-way head-on crash
(KRON) — The passenger of a wrong-way car on Highway 17 was killed in a head-on crash overnight Saturday, according to the San Jose California Highway Patrol Area Office. Authorities believe the wrong-way driver was under the influence. CHP was first alerted at 12:38 a.m. to the wrong-way vehicle, a Toyota Camry,...
Federal budget cuts could deepen homelessness crisis, Milpitas nonprofit warns at conference
This past Saturday, August 23, at the Milpitas Police Department (1275 N. Milpitas Blvd.) conference room, local nonprofit Hope for the Unhoused (H4U) hosted its 3rd annual Homeless Conference, providing presentations on the state of homelessness in Milpitas while highlighting the challenges and opportunities that...
San Francisco district attorney has filed just one treatment-mandated drug possession case under Proposition...
An Aug. 17 article in the Mercury News detailing the early results of California’s Proposition 36, overwhelmingly approved in 2024 with promises of treatment for drug addiction and more accountability for crimes like burglary, showed thus far in the Bay Area, the measure has compelled only a few dozen people into...
Urgent Search Underway for 17-Year-Old Colin Kalanges Missing in San Jose
The California Highway Patrol has issued an "Endangered Missing Advisory" for a 17-year-old boy who has gone missing in San Jose. Colin Kalanges was reported to have been last seen yesterday morning, near Tawnygate Way and Hollowgate Way. The CHP alert, shared on behalf of the San Jose Police Department, urges anyone...
