Oakland CA

Here’s a fun fact: you can experience authentic Japanese garden design without enduring a fourteen-hour flight or figuring out how to use a Japanese toilet. The Hayward Japanese Gardens offers a direct portal to the kind of tranquility that usually requires international travel, and all you have to do is drive to the...

The walk begins on a quiet residential street, where Victorian homes rise close to the sidewalk and set the tone immediately. Towers, gables, and ornate trim appear one after another, forming a streetscape shaped long before modern traffic or hurried routines. The spacing feels deliberate, the details purposeful, and...

A fresh lobster cocktail cost 75 cents. A plate of “imported anchovies with egg” was only 50 cents. Meanwhile, half of an alligator pear — better known today as an avocado — set diners back a mere 35 cents. These old-timey dishes are listed on a...

UC Berkeley police arrested two men early Sunday morning after getting reports of gunfire on Grizzly Peak Boulevard, authorities report. The men, whose names were unavailable pending the booking process, were found with methamphetamine and cocaine, the University of California Police Department said in response to a...

People were shocked by video of a man violently stabbed in the back while waiting to cross a street in San Francisco's Chinatown. Police say the victim was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, but is expected to survive. Stabbing suspect was located within 10 minutes by San Francisco...

Police were called to the intersection of Contra Costa Boulevard and Taylor Boulevard on reports of a crash and found a bicyclist injured at the scene, where they died of their injuries. Investigators discovered the vehicle involved in the collision was a dark-colored Mazda SUV, which they found parked and...

(KRON) — Weeks after winning a historic gold medal at the 2026 Olympics last month, Alysa Liu returned home to the Bay Area. One of the first things she did was dine at a restaurant in Alameda. Liu is back home in the East Bay but now as a household name with millions of new […]

OAKLAND, Calif. - Police recovered a stolen firearm and illegal tobacco products during a search of an unlicensed smoke shop in East Oakland, authorities said. Oakland Police Department served a search warrant Tuesday at a business in the 6900 block of International Boulevard, police said. Investigators said they...

Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald has died. The singer/songwriter who fronted counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish died of complications from Parkinson’s disease last night, according to TMZ and Best Classic Bands. McDonald wrote the psychedelic Berkeley, California band’s most enduring songs,...

Below is a Coast Guard News Release. While I believe this was a very successful deployment, I cannot help but believe that pulling a Pacific Area National Security Cutter from the target rich Eastern Pacific drug transit area, where Munro had made a record breaking interdiction to work in the Atlantic was...