Hayward CA

After months of internal battles, public concern from staff, and even some accusations of previous impropriety, Oakland’s city government has decided to move some parking tasks currently managed by the city’s Department of Transportation, such as revenue collection, to the Finance Department. The changes are outlined i

A new report says that the Super Bowl in February generated $720 million in total economic activity across the Bay Area, exceeding projections. That included $425 million in economic benefits to San Francisco. [KRON4]. Voters in Marin and Sonoma counties on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a 30-year extension of a quart

Authorities have identified the woman found killed in a California Street apartment on Saturday as Vanessa Lynn Sanchez, a college admissions administrator who grew up in Connecticut before moving to the Bay Area. Sanchez, 37, “loved fiercely and wholeheartedly,” according to an obituary from her family. “She had an ex

OAKLAND, Calif. - The plan to strengthen California’s water infrastructure cleared a significant hurdle this week. The Delta Conveyance Project — a proposed tunnel that would extend 45 miles from the Sacramento River to a reservoir near Livermore —received Biological Opinions from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, seeing hybrids on every major freeway was the norm. Everyone outside of San Francisco commutes to San Francisco or San Jose, and with commute traffic being some of the roughest in the nation, our state's gas prices being some of the highest in the country, and smog requirements

Sandro Britz, a longtime Sunset District resident and Bay Area surfer, died after being rescued from the surf at Ocean Beach.

Summer is basically here, and with it comes a slate of exciting new restaurant openings across the Bay Area. A trio of new restaurants in the Presidio means more reasons to visit Tunnel Tops park, while an acclaimed Thai chef establishes his first U.S. restaurant in San Francisco. Meanwhile, a pizza pop-up puts down ro

Bay Area riders were unable to add money to their fare cards last month after an outage that lasted nearly 30 hours, causing massive frustrations for commuters and huge delays.

Today, on June 4, at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ (USCOM) 94th Annual Meeting in Long Beach, I accepted the USCOM’s 2026 Mayors’ Climate Protection Award for Alameda’s Community-wide Equitable Decarbonization Program. Alameda’s Sustainability and Resilience Manager Danielle Mieler also attended the awards ceremony be

An Oakland resident has been charged with murder in a fatal stabbing in East Oakland over Memorial Day weekend, prosecutors said.