Oakland CA

An Alameda County judge has thrown out the murder charge against 51-year-old Isaac Landry in a fatal Emeryville confrontation that left 43-year-old Robert Abeyta dead, easing the legal pressure on one man while leaving a troubled neighborhood and grieving family still searching for answers. Landry no longer faces a...

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...

ABC7 News caught up with an East Bay couple who were among the millions of people cut off from their SNAP benefits during the government shutdown.

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.

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...

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...

Storms brought waist-high flooding to Broadmoor, causing an untold amount of damage.

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...

The cold front that has soaked the Bay Area in the past week is making it final pass over the region.

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...