Hayward CA

Following a high-speed chase, OPD officers made two arrests and confiscated a stash of firearms. According to a social media post by the Oakland Police Department, the incident began with a vehicle stop gone awry last Saturday, leading to a pursuit and ending in seizures and arrests. After an initial attempt to pull...

(KRON) — A driver in San Mateo who rammed into another driver’s vehicle multiple times because the victim had their high beam lights on was sentenced Tuesday for assault with a deadly weapon. Frank Falcone, 62, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was sentenced to 90 days of county jail, 32 hours of anger management and two […]

Oakland’s police chief is resigning from his position as the leader of the city’s police department.

A person has died Tuesday after being struck by a train in the city of Antioch according to Contra Costa County Fire Protection District firefighters. According to preliminary information, they were dispatched to a train versus pedestrian in the area of A St near E 6th Street just before 8:00 pm. E81 firefighters...

Tech companies have revealed plans for hundreds of Bay Area job cuts — with most of the reductions occurring as a result of tariff turbulence, California’s burdensome business regulations, and customer woes in China. The layoffs raise fresh uncertainty about the stability of the Bay Area employment market.

Public bikeshare programs are hardly new in the U.S. The first one launched in Washington, D.C. in 2008, and according to a Bureau of Transportation Statistics report in 2025, the country currently has 72 docked and 80 dockless bikeshare systems. But an e-bike sharing program is a relatively novel concept, and...

(KRON) — The Oakland Police Department said a suspicious death Tuesday morning is now being probed as a homicide. The incident happened just before 8 a.m. in the area of Olive and Ritchie streets. OPD said its dispatch center was notified of a “person who was down on the ground.” When officers arrived at the […]

In a recent account by the San Francisco Police Department, an altercation that spiraled into violence ended with one person hospitalized with a gunshot wound and another now facing numerous charges. The incident unfolded on September 21 in the Mission District, where officers responded quickly to reports of a...

Last month, an internet fad of urinating on college campuses and anonymously posting videos of it to social media began at California’s Chico State University with the TikTok account “chicostatepisser,” before spreading across the country, including into Livermore’s own Las Positas Community College. In an effort to...

On Tuesday, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee delivered her first State of the City address amid a host of problems usually only seen in much larger cities.