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Oakland Unified's school board has quietly put the brakes on its search for a permanent superintendent while the district faces a growing budget shortfall. Interim Superintendent Denise Saddler will stay at the helm for now as the board shifts its attention to grim fiscal projections and tough talks with labor groups.

You finally booked the sitter. Grandparents drove in from Sacramento, the kids are handled, and you and your spouse have a rare four-hour window to eat like actual adults. San Ramon has options, but Livermore is only 20–25 minutes down I-580 from Gale Ranch — and that's where the real Tri-Valley date-night tier lives.

If you own a Traeger, a Weber Smokey Mountain, or a stick burner, you already know the frustration. You pull a 14-hour brisket off your own rig, slice it, and wonder if any restaurant in the Tri-Valley can actually beat what you just made. The honest answer: a few can, and none of them are inside San Ramon city limits. The Dickey's...

If you live in San Ramon and the dinner rotation is getting stale, you've got a pretty sweet secret hiding 16 miles down the 680. Pleasanton is about a 13-minute drive, which clears the "would I drive 30 minutes for this?" bar without breaking a sweat. Load up the family, skip the usual chains, and go hunt down a real burger. Here's where...

Nearly 38% of Oakland’s downtown office space was empty in the first quarter of the year, according to a new report from the commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. The findings, first reported by the East Bay Times, show that Oakland’s vacancy rate remains stubbornly high six years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Oakland isn’t alone in this problem, the paper...

“This Trader Joe’s is a neighborhood institution and it would be a shame to replace it with an eyesore,” said one customer of the store in Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood.

COPS are urgently probing a famous university campus after two men were found dead within just 24 hours. The grim discoveries were made at the University of California, Berkeley, with police launching two separate investigations. The first incident happened on Tuesday evening just before 8pm, when the UC Berkeley Police...

Four juveniles were taken into custody near Mills College after Oakland officers spotted a stolen vehicle, watched the suspects bail out on foot and moved in. Police say they recovered two loaded firearms outfitted with devices that converted them to fully automatic weapons, and a preliminary investigation tied the group to a string of armed robberies and a pistol‑whipping incident in East Oakland...

Emergency personnel were dispatched to the southern end of the sprawling park after a caller reported a “horrible” smell coming from a car, police said.

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. When Clara Faria read her rent statement, her heart stopped. Her monthly payment would more than triple, rising from $297 per month to $995. She had four days to make the payment or...