Hayward CA

If you live in San Ramon and the dinner rotation is getting stale, you've got a pretty sweet secret hiding 16 miles down the 680. Pleasanton is about a 13-minute drive, which clears the "would I drive 30 minutes for this?" bar without breaking a sweat. Load up the family, skip the usual chains, and go hunt down a real burger. Here's where...

Nearly 38% of Oakland’s downtown office space was empty in the first quarter of the year, according to a new report from the commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. The findings, first reported by the East Bay Times, show that Oakland’s vacancy rate remains stubbornly high six years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Oakland isn’t alone in this problem, the paper...

“This Trader Joe’s is a neighborhood institution and it would be a shame to replace it with an eyesore,” said one customer of the store in Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood.

COPS are urgently probing a famous university campus after two men were found dead within just 24 hours. The grim discoveries were made at the University of California, Berkeley, with police launching two separate investigations. The first incident happened on Tuesday evening just before 8pm, when the UC Berkeley Police...

Four juveniles were taken into custody near Mills College after Oakland officers spotted a stolen vehicle, watched the suspects bail out on foot and moved in. Police say they recovered two loaded firearms outfitted with devices that converted them to fully automatic weapons, and a preliminary investigation tied the group to a string of armed robberies and a pistol‑whipping incident in East Oakland...

Emergency personnel were dispatched to the southern end of the sprawling park after a caller reported a “horrible” smell coming from a car, police said.

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. When Clara Faria read her rent statement, her heart stopped. Her monthly payment would more than triple, rising from $297 per month to $995. She had four days to make the payment or...

Officers in Fremont asked drivers early Thursday morning to avoid a roadway near an Interstate Highway 880 on-ramp due to police activity. Around 2:45 a.m., the Fremont Police Department advised motorists to avoid the area near Grimmer Boulevard and Auto Mall Parkway, noting the closure could remain in place for an extended period while the situation is being handled.

A suspect who police say had barricaded themselves in a stolen delivery truck after a short chase is now in custody after a standoff in Fremont early Thursday morning.

Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) issued a heads-up on Facebook about a misleading flyer labeled “Public Utility Notice” that is currently circulating around Alameda. It references California Public Utilities Code 379.6 and is designed to look official, but it’s not. Don’t be fooled, AMP warns. That flyer is...