Longtime Bay Area performer, KGO host recovering from emergency heart surgery
A fundraiser says Brian Copeland was hospitalized last week and later found to have a serious heart condition requiring surgery.
Bay Area farmers hopeful as California moves to restore canceled federal ‘safety net’ contracts...
Small farmers in the North Bay are celebrating a tentative agreement reached by California legislators this week to revive a canceled federal program that helped food banks purchase produce from local farms. The state legislative budget approved June 15 contains $15 million, pending the governor’s signature, to partial
San Francisco now leads the country in rent growth at 6.3% over the past...
Renters across San Francisco are absorbing the steepest annual rent increases of any major U.S. metro, with prices climbing 6.3 percent year over year as of January 2026. The city now sits at the top of the national rent growth rankings, a sharp reversal from the pandemic-era exodus that once sent Bay Area rents tumbli
This Bay Area-to-Tahoe road trip stop was just named America’s best pie shop
A longtime I-80 stop for Bay Area travelers headed to Tahoe has earned a national honor for its pies.
The East Bay’s Most Enticing New Cafe? It’s at the Library
As Kneaded Bakery’s first cafe has turned the San Leandro Public Library into a hotspot for food lovers. Last January, Iliana Berkowitz was paying her weekly visit to the main branch of the San Leandro Public Library with her kids when she noticed that the little volunteer-run cafe inside had been closed for some time.
Massive grocery store to take over former Macy’s in Bay Area suburb
The future store will be the grocery chain's largest California outpost.
Thief racks up $10K in Orange County toll road violations after stealing NorCal couple’s...
A Bay Area couple was devastated after their home was burglarized. The thieves went on to rack up $10,000 in Orange County toll road violations.
Childcare providers struggle as four year-olds enroll in TK
EdSource · Childcare providers struggle as four year-olds enroll in TK. For 27 years, Yolanda Thomas has run a childcare business called Best Beginnings in her home in Contra Costa County. She usually has children start with her as babies and stay until they’re in kindergarten. But in...
Landmark Oakland office tower is foreclosed as market weakness widens
OAKLAND — One of the landmarks of the Oakland skyline has been foreclosed due to a failed loan, a grim new indicator that the Bay Area office market remains feeble with no immediate remedies in sight. The Clorox Building at 1221 Broadway in downtown Oakland has been taken back...
SFPD: Feds and others accessed license plate scans hundreds of times in ‘statewide issue’
The disclosure is likely to renew scrutiny of a surveillance tool that has expanded rapidly across California and the nation.
