San Leandro food startups, charities brace for closure of community kitchen
The future of more than 100 mom-and-pop food businesses is now in limbo after the East Bay commissary kitchen where they prep their meals is set to close its doors.
Late-night 2.9-magnitude quake rattles San Francisco Bay Area, seismologists say
A late-night 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The six-mile deep quake hit three miles from Fairview, which is about a 30-mile drive southeast from San Francisco, at 10:55 p.m. on Monday, June 30, according to the USGS. More than 800 people...
Crime rates decreased in Oakland last year, crept up in San Jose
Crime in California and some of the Bay Area’s biggest cities fell in 2024 after increases during the pandemic helped drive statewide approval last fall of a ballot measure to strengthen penalties in drug and property crimes and seat new prosecutors in Oakland and Los Angeles who promised tougher law enforcement,...
News Alert! Another Bay Area Indian Jewelry Store Looted
On Sunday, June 29, a group of robbers armed with hammers looted Manisha Jewelers in Sunnyvale. This is the second robbery at an Indian jewelry store in the Bay Area this month after a similar robbery took place at Kumar Jewelers in Fremont on June 18.
Golden Gate Bridge toll to hit $10 for most drivers
The price hikes aim to help the Golden Gate Bridge District address a projected $220 million budget shortfall over five years.
Bay Area man living with HIV concerned about federal cuts to medical funding
On Tuesday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a budget allocating $75 million to support HIV services in the state.
Feds Charge Men from San Jose and Sunnyvale in Nationwide Medicare Fraud Scheme
U.S. Justice Department officials on Monday identified three California men as among hundreds of defendants nationwide who were involved in $14.6 billion in fraud schemes involving Medicare, other federal health care benefit programs and illegally diverted drugs. The charges filed in U. S. District Court in San...
Coroner seeks help to ID woman found dead in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is asking for the public’s help to identify a woman found deceased in San Francisco. The woman has red hair, green eyes, and a “distinctive and large tattoo on her back,” OCME wrote. She was found unconscious in an entryway of a building at […]
Oakland: City Leaders Bracing For July Fourth Fire Dangers
OAKLAND: CITY LEADERS BRACING FOR JULY FOURTH FIRE DANGERS
Worried About COVID Symptoms After Pride? What to Do Now
“Is my sore throat, slight cough or runny nose COVID-19?”. It’s a concern that’s still, alas, familiar to many of us in 2025. You go out, perhaps in a crowded space — or gather with friends and family inside for the holidays — and a few days later, you start to feel … a little off. (Or maybe you just start to feel...
