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Flock Safety quietly hosted a private online training session that walked Bay Area officers through how to sell its license-plate readers and related surveillance tech to city councils, a move privacy advocates say looks a lot like vendor lobbying dressed up as training. The timing is sensitive: several Bay Area govern

Muttville Senior Dog Rescue is holding its “Smooch a Pooch Adoptathon,” encouraging Bay Area residents to open their hearts and homes to older rescue dogs.

Have you ever looked at a city map and wondered why some neighborhoods suddenly feel completely different? It’s not... The post How U.S. cities secretly rewrote map boundaries to block Black families appeared first on The Queen Zone .

As Oakland Arena’s popularity as a concert venue continues to soar, a group that was co-founded by a music industry executive is considering purchasing the venue, which would be part of a larger sale of the entire Oakland Coliseum Complex. The purchase of the 155-acre Oakland Coliseum Complex, including...

BERKELEY, Calif. - Starting this Friday, Berkeley will hold its 12th annual Bay Area Book Festival, a "world-class literary extravaganza", boasting as many as 400 authors on 21 stages at multiple downtown venues. A literary extravaganza. More than 25,000 writers and readers are expected to convene at the festival May..

As living costs continue to rise, libraries are leaning into their mission as a haven of discovery. This story is part of How We Get By, a KQED series exploring how people are coping with rising costs in the Bay Area and California. Find the full series here. An Arturia...

The Redwood City Police Department says an automated license plate reader helped detectives identify and arrest a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a 72-year-old woman over Memorial Day weekend.

A new study found that a warm Bay Area winter may have pushed honey bees to swarm weeks earlier than usual. Steve Demkowski is a honeybee addict. But in January, when a swarm buzzed into his San José yard, the longtime beekeeper was stunned. Swarming had started nearly a month earlier than he expected.

The Bay Area’s summer calendar is packed with free concerts, festivals, dance events, book fairs, beach movies and family-friendly fun.

BERKELEY — An alert from a surveillance camera on May 25 spurred arrests of Anthony W. Kerman, 37, of Berkeley, and 41-year-old Dezary M. Jones, residency unknown. Kerman was driving a car with license plates matching the getaway car used to flee from a theft at a sporting goods store.