Hayward CA

Jurors in Redwood City are set to decide whether convicted kidnapper Cameron Hooker should be legally branded a sexually violent predator, a label that could keep him locked in state custody indefinitely instead of giving him any shot at parole. The San Mateo County Superior Court trial is scheduled to...

A road to some of the Bay Area’s most expensive real estate will flood when the seas rise. When the county said it might not fix it, homeowners threatened “billions in liability.”

Michael Anthony Leon, 66, has been arrested and charged with the 2015 murder of his wife, Brenda Joyce Leon, after new evidence was uncovered

On January 7, while driving in Minneapolis in her car on a snowy residential street, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent for refusing to move her car to allow law enforcement to pass. The event has since sparked controversy nationwide, with protests...

The early shutdown marks the final chapter for what was once San Francisco’s largest and most prominent shopping mall.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – The CC County Sheriff is warning residents about a worrying trend of sophisticated scams happening in the county. In some cases, the Sheriff says that victims put more and more money into the scams, only to “lose it all.”. If you think you’d...

The lively and well-loved Mexican restaurant, which the Chronicle once feted as “always a party,” has closed after three decades in the city.

From the streets of San Francisco, there were calls of solidarity with Minneapolis, where a 37-year-old man was fatally shot by a federal agent Saturday. Protestors from across the Bay Area and beyond gathered within hours of the shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital.

HERCULES, Calif. — The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office is participating in the investigation of a fatal incident involving an on-duty Richmond police officer that occurred Thursday morning on westbound Interstate 80 in Hercules, according to a press release from the office. The incident occurred at...

LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA – There are some stores that feel so completely rooted to a place that you can’t imagine them existing anywhere else. That always felt like the case with Pleasanton’s Meadowlark Dairy. Since 1969, the dairy and ice cream spot has operated out of the same drive-thru building downtown.