Fremont CA

So much for the big dry spell. Parts of the Bay Area woke up Thursday to something they haven't seen in weeks—actual rain falling from the sky. Well, sort of. While forecasters are calling it "sprinkles to very light rain," and accumulation is measured in hundredths of an inch, any moisture at all feels newsworthy...

For anyone who knows a coffee drinker, take away the person’s caffeine fix, and there’s no telling what might happen. Although the circumstance is not as dire, news is spreading fast that Peet’s Coffee is closing or has already closed some of its coffee houses in the Bay Area.

Four very junkyard-looking locations in Oakland, Richmond, and San Leandro were on the business end of FBI raids Wednesday, in an investigation of what the FBI and Bay Area police think is a diesel fuel theft ring. Both NBC Bay Area and KTVU were covering the story that FBI agents...

Victor Dawson, the former principal of two East Bay private schools, was charged with a range of financial crimes by Alameda County prosecutors.

THIS is the dramatic moment a carjacker who tried to snatch a police car was mowed down and shot dead by cops. Footage shows a man wanted for a series of car thefts in California, America, trying to dodge gunfire in a wild 50 mile police chase. Police were in...

Apple has quietly planted itself along North San Jose’s Orchard Parkway, moving staff into one low-key office building while getting ready to spill over into the one next door. The step-by-step move is a modest but meaningful expansion in the tech-heavy corridor just north of the airport, adding lab and office space...

A private company will open and scan non-privileged mail, then send copies to the jail in Dublin.

A Gilroy woman has been sentenced to serve a year in jail for committing elder fraud—embezzling more than $100,000 from her employer, a century-old family-owned winery, authorities said Thursday. Stacey Greenlee, 62, worked as an administrative assistant for Guglielmo Winery’s elderly owner from October 2022 to March...

Keith “Boski” Givens spent years getting Oakland crowds to grab the mic at Lounge 3411. Now, a coroner’s report says the 55-year-old karaoke jockey was killed when metal from a replacement airbag sliced into his head during a Hayward crash, turning a minor collision into a deadly incident and putting a harsh...

Days before a closely watched trial was set to begin, Alameda County prosecutors told a judge they cannot find the woman at the center of the bribery and perjury case against Oakland homicide Detective Phong Tran. The witness, Aisha Weber, is the same person whose later statements helped unravel a...