Man Dead After Stepping Into Traffic in Antioch, Hit By Two Cars
ANTIOCH, Calif. — A man died Wednesday evening, August 6, 2025, after being hit by two vehicles on eastbound State Route 4 just west of Somerville Road, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Contra Costa Area. What happened. CHP says an adult male pedestrian entered the eastbound lanes...
US program handing out another round of $1,000 monthly payments – and checks will...
SOME Americans will get another monthly payment automatically deposited in their bank accounts soon. The money comes as part of an initiative helping lower-income families improve their long-term financial health. It first began in November 2024 thanks to philanthropic organization United Way Bay Area (UWBA) in...
San Jose homeless housing won’t be ready ahead of big sweep
As San Jose gears up to dismantle its largest homeless encampment, inadequate housing has left hundreds of people with no place to go. Homeless residents living in Columbus Park said outreach workers from the city and nonprofit HomeFirst promised housing would be available when the sweep starts Aug. 18. But some of...
Mid-Year Data Shows Crime Is Declining in Oakland Across All Fronts
Crimes in Oakland are trending down in the first half of the year across nearly all indexes aside from arson, according to new mid-year data from the Oakland Police Department (OPD). “These results show that we’re on the right track, but our work is far from done,” Oakland Mayor Barbara...
Police seek public’s help locating missing San Jose boy, 11
Police are requesting the public’s help locating an 11-year-old boy from San Jose who has been missing since Monday. He was last known to be heading to San Francisco on public transportation.
Deadly Electric-Motor Vehicle Collisions in San Francisco Prompt Calls for Regulation
On July 21, Janarden Dangi was working a dinner shift at Nepa Indian Cuisine, a restaurant near Divisadero and Fell streets in San Francisco’s Panhandle neighborhood, when he saw police sirens. Outside, he joined a small crowd looking out at a gruesome scene — a crash between two pedestrians...
The Bay Area’s most notable 24-hour restaurant is also a casino
The Filipino food at this late-night casino restaurant made for one of critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan’s most memorable dining experiences this week.
Missing California teen found safe after two weeks
A teenage girl who was missing for two weeks after disappearing from her home outside San Francisco has been found safe.
Cherish the good times and let go of the bad. Life goes on.
This week was hectic with Thursday being even more so…. A team from the Chancellor’s Office (Chris Ferguson, Tony Cordova, and me) headed to Google San Francisco for a press conference with Governor Newsom on cultivating tech and higher education partnerships for workforce development. You see us in the...
Bay Area cyclists lose weekday access on Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
Hopes for a permanent bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge have dimmed after a state commission approved a plan that will sharply restrict weekday access for cyclists and pedestrians.
