Oakland CA

If you live anywhere between San Ramon and Livermore, the next five months are stacked with festivals that hit the dad trifecta: smoked meat, cold beer, and a folding chair on the grass. Here are six picks already on the calendar — most under a 30-minute drive from Gale Ranch.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — More than 5,000 customers were without power in an outage Sunday night in San Francisco, according to PG&E. The customers affected by the outage were primarily in the Marina and Presidio parts of San Francisco. PG&E did not specify the cause of the outage, stating the outage was “unplanned.” PG&E estimated […]

You guys, the coast is right there. Pacifica is 10 to 15 minutes south on Highway 1, and Half Moon Bay is barely 30 minutes — close enough for a Sunday-after-church drive, far enough to feel like a real day out. Pillar Point Harbor is the last working commercial fishing harbor between San Francisco and Monterey, with more than 50 crab boats based...

Officers in Colma arrested a man last week who was allegedly found with dozens of credit cards belonging to other people and tried to use one, police said. On April 20, just before 3 p.m., officers arrived at the Best Buy on Colma Boulevard after staff reported a theft. Employees said a man tried to use a credit card that didn't belong to him...

The 7th Street corridor that made West Oakland the Harlem of the West is mostly gone. Flint's closed in 2010. Brown Sugar Kitchen shut in 2022. Uncle Willie's got pushed out by a Marriott tower next door. But if you want barbecue that still tastes like the East Bay — slow smoke, family recipes, no tech-bro polish — these five spots are still standing.

Rather than relying on city and county subsidies, the project was funded on a streamlined mix of tax credit equity, debt and institutional partnership.

An Ebony Alert was issued early Monday morning for a missing 15-year-old girl last seen in Castro Valley over the weekend, according to the California Highway Patrol. Ganiah Grubbs was last seen at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday near Edwards Lane and Center Street in Castro Valley and is believed to be on foot, according to the CHP, which activated the...

The disappearance of Ilene Beth Misheloff remains one of the most haunting unsolved cases in Northern California. On January 30, 1989, the 13 year old Dublin girl left school and began what should have been an ordinary walk home. Instead, somewhere along that familiar route, she vanished. More than three decades later, her name still carries the weight of unanswered questions, painful memory, and...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – When you think of Claude Monet, you probably instinctively picture water lilies and beautiful bridges. The Monet exhibit currently at the de Young Museum in San Francisco includes plenty of those things. But it also showcases a dramatically different chapter of Monet’s career and life: his time in Venice.

If you have spent a Saturday inching across the Carquinez Bridge only to pay $50 a person for a tasting flight, you already know the truth: a Napa day is lovely, but it is no longer the only option. Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Danville, and the Livermore Valley have quietly built a wine-friendly dining scene that is closer, gentler on the wallet, and easier...