Hayward CA

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...

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 County firefighters battled a three-alarm vegetation fire near homes in Antioch on Tuesday afternoon.

About 35 firefighters battled the blaze at Madison and Ninth streets in Oakland.

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...

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.

A nationwide solidarity strike that spread to Bay Area garbage collection workers has entered its second week, as odorous bags piled up in residential areas across the region amid a contract standoff.

PIEDMONT, Calif. (KRON) — Minutes before a Tesla Cybertruck filled with college students crashed and burst into flames in Piedmont, one of the high-tech vehicle’s 360-degree cameras recorded an eerie image. The image shows one of the four victims holding a “half-gallon” bottle containing a clear liquid, a California...

An East Bay man who's run a homeless ministry for years gives away his own bed and the roof over his head to serve the unhoused.

Sometimes the most extraordinary culinary adventures hide behind the most ordinary facades, and Taqueria Mi Rancho in Oakland proves this truth with every perfectly charred piece of carne asada they serve from their bright green food truck. You know that moment when you bite into something so spectacular that you...