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DUBLIN, Calif. - The staff at Santa Rita Jail saved 336 lives in 2025 – up from 250 the year before and the sheriff announced she's "updated" the mail system to reduce the influx of contraband coming in, according to a Tuesday news release from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

The VA Palo Alto Health Care team is coming to Hayward on Thursday, March 12, 2026, from 10:00am to 2:00pm at the Hayward Veterans Memorial Hall (22737 Main St.). They’ll offer medical exams, consultations, toxic exposure screenings, and referrals for veterans enrolled in the VA healthcare system.

Measure W is a half-cent sales tax to support homelessness services, housing, health services, and system infrastructure. It was passed in 2020, but distributing that money was held up by a legal battle.

The crash happened early Wednesday morning on eastbound Highway 580, east of North Flynn Road. According to the CHP, they were heading home after work and told officers they dozed off while driving.

Oakland officials declared that the city ended its most recent fiscal year with $17 million leftover — a massive turnaround from their urgent warnings of potential insolvency as recently as late 2024.

As far back as the early 1900s, Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood was home to small Italian-owned businesses. Genova Delicatessen opened in 1926 on the site of a former train barn. The long-gone G&G hardware store’s neon sign still looms above the businesses on the designated landmark Cattaneo Block, which stretches...

A coordinated law enforcement push has landed a suspect in custody in connection with a string of residential burglaries in Redwood City and a break-in at a San Carlos home, according to police. The arrest was announced today, in a press release shared on the department’s official social media account.

(KRON) — A serial REI thief was detained on Tuesday after stealing from the same Berkeley location twice in two months. According to the Berkeley Police Department, the suspect was detained near the store around 7:33 p.m. after Flock cameras detected their vehicle. Officers then located the suspect vehicle in REI’s...

Biting into fish and chips in California felt like my taste buds had smuggled themselves onto a London double-decker. Crispy cod flaked like tiny golden confetti, fries piled like a greasy skyline, and malt vinegar fogging up the edges of my reality. I half expected Big Ben to chime between...

A suspected drunk driver is believed to have caused a multi-vehicle crash in Danville Tuesday after driving the wrong way on northbound I680. Four cars were reportedly involved in the crash, with two sustaining the most serious damage. California Highway Patrol officers closed the northbound lanes of the freeway...