League of Women Voters Supports High School Voter Registration
For the second year, Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) high school students have teamed up with the League of Women Voters of Alameda (LWVA), a nonpartisan organization that works to protect and expand voting rights, to facilitate a national High School Registration Project aimed at getting more young people to...
Another twist in City Hall security contract: Oakland can’t hire companies that work with...
For months, Oakland has struggled to award a major contract to guard city properties, with city staff and councilmembers butting heads over who should get the lucrative award. Now, city officials are once again proposing that the award go to a national company called Allied Universal Security Services. But there’s a...
Oakland: Woman Dies After Being Shot In East Oakland Monday Evening
OAKLAND: WOMAN DIES AFTER BEING SHOT IN EAST OAKLAND MONDAY EVENING
Oakland police collaborating with NAACP to hire more officers amid staffing crisis
The Oakland Police Officers' Association says the department is losing about six people a month. The alarming statistics are one reason why the Oakland chapter of the NAACP is supporting the new drive to recruit more officers.
Map Shows Where California Faces One of Hottest Days of the Year
Cooler temperatures are forecast to return starting Wednesday, along with a chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms as the upper-level low shifts inland.
Dozens of robbery suspects fire shots, ransack San Ramon jewelry store
Cellphone video shows armed robbery suspects running to try and get away after ransacking Heller Jewelers at the City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. This is the second time the store was targeted in two years.
Sandy Hook Promise tip line warns of possible shooting at Bay Area high school
"What we know is that a student saw a concerning post on a friend's Instagram feed and reported it to our anonymous reporting system manned at our crisis center down in Miami," said Nicole Hockley, co-founder of the nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise.
Illegal dirt bike crackdown in SF leads to 4 arrests
KRON4's Michael Thomas reports. Read more: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-francisco-dirt-bike-arrests/. The weekend is here, and there is no shortage of activities going on around the Bay Area. KRON4 Chief Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow has 4 Fun Things going on this weekend. Read more here:...
We must prep now for much larger quakes, Humbert says
Editor's Note: The Scanner will periodically publish guest essays from community members on issues of concern. Today's piece was written by Berkeley District 8 Councilman Mark Humbert . It has been republished with permission. As you probably were, too, I was jolted awake by Monday's 4.3 quake along the Berkeley...
ICE agents arrest man at Oakland courthouse, public defenders say
(KRON) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a man inside the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland following a pre-trial hearing on Sept. 15, according to a statement issued by Alameda County public defender Brendon Woods on Monday. Two ICE agents in plain clothes allegedly detained the man in a...