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(KRON) — The Oakland Police Department is asking for the  public’s help in solving the 2022 homicide of David Sakurai. Sakurai was shot on Sept. 28 in the 8200 block of Fontaine Street, according to OPD. Police said officers responded to a shooting at the King Estate Campus that injured six people, including Sakurai. He […]

A Silver Alert is active for Alameda County after a person went missing and was last seen near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Western Boulevard in Hayward. Anyone who spots the person is urged to call 911 immediately. The alert was issued by CHP Alerts on Friday and shared...

Oakland Unified School District pulled $3.5 million from voter-approved parcel tax reserves to help close a budget hole, and now a citizen oversight panel says the move broke the rules governing how that money can be spent. The district insists the transfer was legal, long-planned, and necessary to help close a deficit nearing $100 million. The oversight commission that is supposed to police the funds says otherwise, and it wants the money put back.

From private backroom deals to a massive $300,000 "pay-to-play" scheme, the unsealed files show exactly how federal agents built their case after raiding Sheng Thao's home.

Tesla Rd. & McLaughlin Rd. — Approximate Location of Tesla Fire. A grass fire broke out shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday in the 15000 block of Tesla Road near McLaughlin Road, west of Livermore, burning an estimated 3 to 5 acres of grass at a slow rate of spread before firefighters moved in to knock it down. The blaze, dubbed the Tesla Fire, charred land in a stretch of Alameda County known for its vineyards and agricultural acreage.

A 60-year-old man who slipped and fell while crossing Foothill Boulevard near Fairmount Avenue in San Leandro was still lying in the roadway when an SUV struck him a little before 8 p.m. on September 18, and the driver allegedly took off moments later. Now 51-year-old Oakland resident Shameka Edwards is facing a vehicular manslaughter charge in the death of Michael Adams, with a judge setting her bail at just $1,000.

The man who set fire to the city-run animal shelter in West Berkeley in June is headed to state prison. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Clifford Blakeley sentenced Peter Taraba, 48, to 16 months behind bars Thursday. Under California law, Taraba will likely be eligible for release after half that time. A jury found Taraba guilty of felony arson in September,

A jury on Friday ruled not guilty in the federal criminal trial of a man charged with assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in San Francisco last year. Caleb Alexander Ranney, a resident of Pittsburg in the East Bay, was arrested on Aug. 8, 2025, during a protest at the city’s ICE field office at 630 Sansome St.

Healthcare workers lay down on the lawn outside St. Rose Hospital in Hayward Thursday, staging a die-in to dramatize what they say is a looming threat to the facility's survival: federal healthcare funding cuts that have left Alameda Health System facing a $100 million funding gap. The demonstration came weeks before California voters decide the fate of Proposition 40, a one-time wealth tax on billionaires that labor groups are pitching as a lifeline for hospitals like St. Rose.

Santa Rosa police are asking for help locating a missing 13-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man believed to be traveling together.