Republic Services strike stretches into 9th day as trash — and frustration — pile...
HERCULES, Calif. (KRON) — As a sanitation workers strike stretches into its ninth day, negotiations remain at a standstill between Republic Services and the union. Meanwhile, trash is piling up. In parts of the East Bay, garbage hasn’t been picked up since before the Fourth of July. In one Hercules neighborhood just...
Bay Area cities prepare for legal action against Republic Services, demand refunds for customers
More Bay Area cities are threatening legal action against Republic Services to get money back to rate payers who have been without trash service.
Bay Area residents are grappling with overflowing trash as strike continues
A sanitation worker strike stopped trash pickup in many Bay Area cities last week.
Oakland police misspent Measure Z funds on D.C. trip, ethics probe finds
OPD will likely get a slap on the wrist from the city’s ethics watchdog for using restricted funds to pay for police officers’ trips to Washington D.C. for a memorial event last year. According to an investigation by PEC staff, the police department spent $12,000 for 11 police...
‘We are all eating’: Inside California’s secret industry that props up mass shoplifting
OAKLAND — For two days, investigators parked their unmarked car outside a nondescript parking lot behind an Oakland liquor store, across the street from a church and watched. They saw the same thing over and over: A car would pull up, and someone inside would exit with a jumbo-sized...
Bishop pleads guilty to defrauding Oakland AME Zion church of $2 million
A former national leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to defrauding congregations across California out of millions of dollars. Over four years, Staccato Powell, a bishop of the AME Zion Church who was appointed in 2016 to lead the church’s Western...
Contra Costa firefighters battle three-alarm Antioch vegetation fire
Contra Costa County firefighters battled a three-alarm vegetation fire near homes in Antioch on Tuesday afternoon.
Fire rips through three-story Oakland apartment building
About 35 firefighters battled the blaze at Madison and Ninth streets in Oakland.
150,000 People Live in Unincorporated Alameda County. What Does That Mean for Them?
View the full episode transcript. There’s a fire station in the East Bay, on Meekland Avenue, with a mosaic depicting big homes in a pastoral landscape. It evokes a time long ago when this area, the stretch of the East Bay flats sandwiched between San Leandro and Hayward, was known for its orchards. A local artist...
‘Demographic bomb’: Children are vanishing from this wealthy Bay Area city
It may not be visible even to the residents of this Wine Country city, but the area is a turbocharged example of a trend happening across the Bay Area: fewer and fewer children.
