Hayward CA

If you've recently received a parking ticket in Oakland, you may want to double check the paperwork. That's because drivers are being targeted by a new scam.

A shooting on Myrtle Street turned fatal after the victim died at a hospital.

Fernando Velazquez often joked with his family that riding his tricycle every day was his secret to longevity.

In the Bay Area, health officials are sounding the alarm about a little-known illness that doesn’t just affect humans—it threatens our four-legged companions too. Valley fever, once thought of as a disease limited to California’s Central Valley and the desert Southwest, is now cropping up in places like San Francisco...

Police are hoping someone saw the woman on the trail before her disappearance.

Santa Rosa police seized around 5,000 fentanyl pills suspected to be fentanyl in the bust of a drug trafficking suspect, which were labeled as 30mg oxycodone. 32-year-old Coolidge Sledge was arrested and stands accused of distributing large quantities of suspected fentanyl pills in Santa Rosa and its surrounding...

The California Highway Patrol has issued a Silver Alert for Wayman Hall, an at-risk missing person who was last seen yesterday in San Leandro, Alameda County. According to a social media post from CHP Alerts, Hall is 74 years old, stands 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs approximately 150 pounds, and has brown hair and...

With a boom in New York-style slice shops, Chronicle associate critic Cesar Hernandez sampled 20 different pepperoni pizzas to find the best in the Bay Area. Here are his rankings.

The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office charged the men with several felonies, including meeting a minor for lewd purposes.

"It happened when he was drunk," Somerville's attorney said.