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A would-be carjacker confronted a woman pumping gas in northwest Berkeley on Thursday before being arrested at a nearby homeless camp, police report. Police say suspect Ashley Frankum , 38, pointed what looked like a handgun and demanded the woman's keys during the carjacking attempt at about 3:30 p.m. Frankum had been loitering at the Chevron station at 1300 San Pablo Ave. (at Gilman Street) before the crime, authorities said. The victim, a woman in her 40s, was able to run to safety. The suspe

An Alameda County jury has convicted 33-year-old Jamazea Kittell of first-degree murder for a drive-by shooting that killed 23-year-old Perez Kalief-Chambers on the 9400 block of C Street in Oakland in July 2025 — a killing prosecutors say happened while Kittell was out on bail in an entirely separate case involving a Vallejo police officer who had shot him two years earlier. Before trial, Kittell was jailed without bail while awaiting trial.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office says they have noticed federal immigration agents in Milpitas and San Jose in recent days. The activity has been observed at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas and the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose. The sheriff's office says they do not...

(KRON) — The suspect in a deadly Oakland hit-and-run that left an elderly man dead earlier this month has turned himself in to police. The Oakland Police Department announced Thursday that it had arrested a suspect in the Oct. 3 incident that left 81-year-old Eugene Lynch dead. The incident occurred just before 6 a.m. in […]

For more than a decade, Sarah Kirnon presided over one of the Bay Area’s most widely celebrated restaurants. Until it closed in 2022, Miss Ollie’s, Kirnon’s Afro-Caribbean spot in Old Oakland, served up some of the tastiest braised oxtails, Bajan pepper sauce and skillet-fried chicken in the Bay. The restaurant also served as an important gathering place for Oakland’s Black, brown and queer communities.

(KRON) — A suspected serial killer who grew up in Oakland will stand trial after a San Joaquin County jury found him mentally competent this week. Wesley Brownlee, 47, is accused of “hunting” for victims on the streets of Stockton and Oakland, and murdering six people between 2021–2022. District Attorney Ron Freitas said Brownlee’s case […]

HAYWARD — An apartment complex that replaced the former headquarters of the Mervyn’s department store chain in downtown Hayward was bought for $205.3 million, documents filed on Oct. 28 with the Alameda County Recorder’s Office show. Through an affiliate, Essex Property Group acquired the mixed-use development Lincoln...

Experts say the Bay Area will see about "12 inches of total additional water level due to thermal expansion," this winter as they develop maps that project potential flooding impacts from El Niño.

It only took half an hour. High tide floodwaters transformed stretches of dry asphalt along Marin County’s Shoreline Highway just north of San Francisco into two-foot-deep tide pools this Tuesday—coastal hazards that the National Weather Service warns will persist across the Bay Area this month into Halloween. In a genuinely haunting preview of the havoc that warm expanding water from El Niño’s Kelvin waves is predicted to wreak during the weeks of America’s Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays,

A proposal to replace a parking lot at the Ashby BART station with an affordable apartment building and a dozen townhomes that would provide a rare opportunity for low-income buyers to own property in Berkeley took a key step forward this week. The Berkeley City Council unanimously agreed Tuesday night...