Oakland CA

Oakland’s City Council will vote next week on a controversial surveillance technology contract, just weeks after it failed to advance out of committee amid concerns over the company’s data-sharing practices. The Oakland Police Department’s proposal to extend the contract with Flock Safety, which operates nearly 300...

Hundreds of streaks of light are expected to soar across the night sky.

The California Strategic Growth Council has allocated more than $272 million to the Bay Area for affordable housing and transportation projects. The announcement was made on November 25, 2025. The funding comes from the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program. It will support six new...

(KRON) — The California Highway Patrol said Friday that a roadway in Alameda County is closed due to multiple car crashes and heavy fog. CHP closed Vasco Road in both directions on the Livermore and Brentwood sides. The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District reported a total of four accidents along Vasco Road....

On Friday, a judge in Alameda County dismissed a case against a former San Leandro police officer who killed a man inside a Walmart five years ago.

Federal prosecutors have accused an Oakland physical therapist of overbilling a federal health care program by more than $5 million, including billing for services not rendered.

An Oakland man is accused of turning the back seat of an Orinda police cruiser into his own hiding spot, allegedly slipping a loaded Glock onto the floor while he sat there in handcuffs. Prosecutors say the weapon went unnoticed for nearly two weeks and was only discovered when a different officer used the same...

A San Francisco courtroom interpreter was beaten by an in-custody defendant last month, raising concerns about safety measures in another public space monitored by the sheriff’s office.

Gun rights journalist Cam Edwards, on his show Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co, says San Francisco has managed to do something even many anti-gun jurisdictions usually avoid: it turned law-abiding concealed carry holders into non-carriers overnight, not by changing the law, but by simply letting their permits expire.

For her series California Foodways, Lisa Morehouse is reporting a story about food and farming from each of California’s 58 counties. On a corner in Richmond, California, there’s a business that has celebrated the city’s Black history and Southern roots for 30 years. The building is bright...