Oakland CA

Police are increasing their presence at two troubled BART stations in San Francisco, where residents have long complained about an unsafe environment.

Ernst Schoen-Rene, a tech worker and father, has filed so many complaints about scofflaw parking around Precita Park in Bernal that the city is now annoyed with him. As he explained in an email to District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder:. I regularly report parking here on the 311 app, and...

Cold case investigators reexamining the 40-year-old killing of a college student have uncovered information that had not been made public for decades.

Seven suspects have been charged in connection with an assault near San Francisco's Pier 39 last week, prosecutors said on Friday.

District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said the San Francisco judge’s decision was “reckless” and “beyond the pale,” comments countered by defense attorneys for three of the men.

Last night, the Oakland Unified School Board voted to eliminate hundreds of district positions. The Oakland Unified School District has known that it needs to make $100 million in cuts to next year's budget. Last night they took a step toward that goal. " We gotta stop the bleeding before we...

The third act of “All My Sons” is explosive. Actors Jimmy Smits and Wanda De Jésus (a married couple in real life as well as in the play) are firing on all cylinders. Actually De Jésus has been doing so throughout the entire play; her arrival toward the middle of an otherwise stilted first act is electrifying.

An unidentified woman found unresponsive today in Berkeley with extensive burns on her body was pronounced dead at the hospital Friday night, according to police and early reports. The call began when the Berkeley Fire Department was dispatched to a medical emergency at University Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr....

Can a teacher at a famous Bay Area school prove his innocence after accusations of decades-old sexual abuse?

This book makes the case that taxpayer support should end for a 48-mile long passenger rail system connecting the Bay Area’s fifth largest city with small cities and towns across two counties.