15 California BBQ Spots You Can’t Miss If You Love Real Smoke
California’s barbecue scene feels bolder than ever right now, and you sense it less through headlines than through the way oak, post oak, and mesquite seem to drift through entire neighborhoods like a low, irresistible dinner bell, pulling you off course and into places that are serious about fire in a quiet, focused...
PG&E’s $200 credit ‘doesn’t cut it’ as some SF residents continue to recover after...
PG&E is offering $200 bill credits to residents impacted by the outage and up to $2,500 for businesses that lost inventory or revenue. But many in the community say that doesn't come close to covering their losses.
A trip to the Oakland estuary shines light on a hidden, dirty problem
Editor’s note: We’re republishing some of our best reads of 2025. This exploration of Oakland’s estuary was a beautiful swan song from our Nature and the City reporter, a self-described “water geek,” Callie Rhoades. “Thank you for this extensive report on the state of the Oakland estuary and shoreline,” one reader...
Brentwood Officer involved Christmas Eve shooting leaves man dead
Contra Costa DA’s Office conducting parallel Law Enforcement Involved Fatal Incident protocol investigation. On Wednesday, December 24, 2025, at around 10:55 p.m., Brentwood Officers conducted a traffic enforcement stop on a vehicle in the area of Balfour Road and Foothill Drive for suspicion of DUI. Officers...
Bay Area neighborhood rocked by flash flooding
Storms brought waist-high flooding to Broadmoor, causing an untold amount of damage.
San Francisco’s empty reparations promises
Frustration and disappointment with the Democratic Party are at generational highs, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ quixotic effort to provide reparations for black Americans is a case study that illustrates why. Almost three years ago, the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee released...
Last strong rains moving across the East Bay
The cold front that has soaked the Bay Area in the past week is making it final pass over the region.
Day Around the Bay: Brentwood Police Fatally Shoot Armed DUI Suspect on Christmas Eve
Police in the East Bay city of Brentwood shot and killed a man whom they pulled over under suspicion of driving under the influence on Christmas Eve. Police say the man resisted arrest and reached for a high-powered rifle before they shot him. [KTVU]. Local health officials warn that infections...
Richmond Public Storage Facility Collapses in Overnight Blaze Amid Severe Storm
A fire that broke out just after midnight yesterday at a Public Storage facility in Richmond caused the second story of the building to collapse onto the first, according to the Richmond Fire Department. The blaze was contained by Wednesday morning, but firefighters worked throughout the day to extinguish deep-seated...
SFO terminal evacuated because of suspicious package as weather-related delays continue
A suspicious package discovered at San Francisco International Airport on Friday morning led to the evacuation of a terminal amid ongoing flight delays, authorities said.
