Hayward CA

Juneteenth was designated a federal holiday in 2021, but it’s been celebrated by Black communities since 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, discovered they were free — over two months after the end of the Civil War and two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Here in the...

The shelters were scheduled to close in December. Sorry, March. Nevermind, June. Well, make that May. Whoops — June was correct. The city-funded RV park and “community cabins” on Wood Street, where dozens of unhoused people lived, are shutting down, that much is certain. But a conflict between the shelter operator...

Sage Park is a public space at the entrance of the Castro Valley Library, designed and created by Ronan Wilfong, a boy scout in Troop 722 and Forestr.org, a nonprofit with a mission to green Castro Valley open spaces and beyond. Wilfong is a freshman at Castro Valley High School....

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s latest solution to the city’s homelessness and drug crisis involves displacing 82 residents from a behavioral health hospital to make space for a crisis psychiatric ward serving those on the streets. Soon, patients at the Behavioral Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General...

A man from Piedmont was arrested for DUI in the early hours of May 24. Police contacted the man at approximately 12:12 a.m. near Ramona Avenue after the vehicle was observed speeding and weaving, according to Piedmont Police Captain Chris Monahan. He said a chemical sample was taken and that unspent ammunition was...

Tamalpais Union High School District board members say they'd like to cut the $250,000 program with consultants and run it with current staff. Many community members of all races were outraged by the decision.

San Francisco budget officials studied, then quietly scrapped, a novel idea to convert private car infrastructure into a funding spigot for public transit: charging any property owner with a driveway.

MILPITAS, Calif. - A 17-mile pursuit across the Tri-Valley and South Bay ended in a freeway arrest Tuesday afternoon, much of which was caught on camera by SkyFox overhead. California Highway Patrol Officer Ross Lee said the original pursuit originated in San Ramon at 3:40 p.m. The driver of a...

A police chase on Wednesday that the California Highway Patrol says was called off early culminated in the death of a bystander, Marvin Boomer, an Oakland teacher. Immediately, the incident was drafted into California’s ongoing debate about police pursuit policy and whether the theoretical crime-fighting benefits of...

On a somber Friday morning, as Castlemont seniors lined up at the Paramount Theatre in purple and white graduation regalia, some of Marvin Boomer’s former students and colleagues gathered at the campus, trying to keep busy. Poisonous hemlock needed to be weeded from the campus farm. Canopies and workstations...