Bay Area may soften landmark gas appliance rules with new exemptions
The Bay Area Air District will consider easing its landmark gas heater rules at its upcoming meeting.
‘Leave ‘Em Alone!’: Black California Sisters Stalked and Harassed By Safeway Security Guard While...
A pair of California sisters is calling on grocery store chain “Safeway” to “do better” after they accused a security guard of harassing them while […] ‘Leave ‘Em Alone!’: Black California Sisters Stalked and Harassed By Safeway Security Guard While Grocery Shopping and Stranger Tries to Step In, Video Shows
St. Barnabas, St. Albert the Great Among a Dozen Parishes to Be Closed by...
In a letter dated Tuesday, April 28, Bishop of Oakland Michael C. Barber announced the upcoming closures of two Catholic churches in Alameda—St. Barnabas at 1427 Sixth Street and St. Albert the Great at 1022 Holly Street—along with 10 others in the East Bay.
Robot passenger delays flight from Oakland to San Diego
A flight leaving Oakland was delayed an hour Thursday as flight crews discussed how to accommodate a high-maintenance traveler: “Bebop,” a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot.
Oakland bicyclist, 38, dies from injuries two days after hit-and-run crash
Bartholomew Drawsand died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a hit-and-run collision two days prior on a residential street in East Oakland, officials said.
Five Berkeley Restaurants for a Calm, Ingredient-Driven Dinner
Berkeley is the rare dinner town where what's on your plate often arrived from a small farm that morning, and where the dining room actually lets you taste it. If you want a meal that feels nourishing rather than performative — quiet enough to hear your own thoughts, intentional enough that the kitchen can name every grower — these five spots are the cleanest place to...
The Most Underrated Biscuit Breakfast Is Inside a Kitchen You’d Walk Right Past In...
Biscuit lovers, this is your Oakland wake-up call. Word got out when Town Biscuits started turning out what local writers call “Oakland’s flakiest, most buttery biscuit”, and breakfast fans realized the city finally had a Southern-style biscuit experience worth setting an alarm for. Soon the tiny spot...
Traveling band’s U-Haul was stolen in Oakland with gear
A traveling band on a Bay Area tour stop had its U-Haul with all their musical equipment inside stolen from an Oakland hotel parking lot.
Orinda Instagram Star Maxine Sharf Releases a Cookbook
Even at a very early age growing up in Orinda, it was clear that Maxine Sharf loved food. “My mom always tells the story of when I was a baby,” Sharf says. “She was with my grandma, and she fed me a banana and I wanted more. So they fed me another one, and then they fed me a third banana. [Finally], my grandma...
Oakland thieves swipe band’s U-Haul packed with instruments before tour
OAKLAND, Calif. - A band scheduled to perform across California is reeling after thieves in Oakland stole a rental truck with their instruments and equipment. "As far as what was in the U-Haul, it was everything for our touring party," said Andria Mattson of Moonchild, a Los Angeles-based neo-soul jazz band. "It was our musical instruments, our stage design, lighting gear, and...

















