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Alameda’s 2025 Sand Castle and Sand Sculpture Contest hosted 492 participants creating 40 stunning sand castles and 65 eye-catching sand sculptures this past Saturday, June 21, at Crown Beach. With creativity, teamwork, and good cheer, this beloved annual event once again celebrated imagination in every grain of...

The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito wants to protect marine creatures from well-meaning humans. That's after a study confirmed evidence of human involvement in a significant percentage of animal rescues.

(KRON) — A $30 million SuperLotto Plus ticket was sold at a Bay Area gas station earlier this year and the winner recently came forward to claim the prize, according to the CA Lottery. The ticket, with the numbers 3, 13, 17, 23, 35 and 24, was sold on March 5 at a 76 Gas […]

UCSF Health layoffs come amid ongoing labor disputes and a UC hiring freeze that union leaders say is worsening patient care and staff burnout.

The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward to help locate missing Oakland woman, Heaven McGee, who disappeared January of this year. "I know there is someone with a heart who can help me find my daughter."

Crime and chronic underinvestment in public safety have weakened Oakland’s economy, according to a recent report from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank. The 57-page study, published earlier this month, argues that Oakland’s high crime rate relative to similar-sized cities,...

The nearly 50-year-old Bay Area tradition of Casual Carpool, or getting rides to work with complete strangers who want carpool-lane privileges, was discontinued once the pandemic hit. But Casual Carpool is poised to possibly return this summer. The Bay Area has had a commuting life-hack since long before the word...

The budget agreement also recovers $1.1 billion in state greenhouse gas emission funds that had gone toward transit infrastructure in previous cycles.

Four members of a family from Northern California who were celebrating a birthday were among eight people killed when a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe in California over the weekend during a sudden and fierce thunderstorm.

Last Friday, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) received several distress calls concerning a wayward semi-truck on the move along I-880. The vehicle was reportedly dangerously zigzagging between lanes, compelling fears of imminent collisions. Swiftly heeding the calls, officers of the CHP Oakland unit encountered...