Oakland CA

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...

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.

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, 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...

If you have young kids and you're trying to plan summer weekends that don't end in meltdowns, the East Bay's free and low-cost cultural festivals are honestly the best play. From mid-May through late August 2026, there are six standouts that have proper kids' zones, walkable layouts, and food the whole family will actually eat. Here's the practical lineup, sorted by date...

More than two dozen memorial plaques honoring loved ones were stolen from a popular Alameda park, raising concern among families and park advocates who fear the thefts may be part of a growing trend. The missing plaques were discovered at Jean Sweeney Open Space Park, where nearly every bench once featured a bronze marker dedicated to a family member.

About 170 residents in a Bay Area neighborhood remained without drinkable tap water Thursday, nearly a week after regulators issued a “Do Not Drink” order due to a water main contamination incident.

One of the United States’ most active fault systems poses a significant earthquake hazard, and a major event could have serious consequences for densely populated parts of California. A new study examines the impacts of magnitude 7.0 earthquakes along the Hayward Fault, which runs through the San Francisco Bay Area.

You make the drive across the Bay Bridge for a reason. Daly City has the highest concentration of Filipino-Americans in the country — sister city to Quezon City, the place Jollibee picked for its first US store back in 1998. Forty minutes down I-280 and you're in turo-turo, sisig, and señorita-bread country. The Infatuation refreshed its Daly City guide on February...

(KRON) — After several previous years in which the Oakland Police Department says illegal sideshows disrupted May Day and Cinco de Mayo celebrations, OPD said it plans to deploy additional resources, including aerial police tracking, from Friday through next Tuesday to prevent dangerous activity. “Sideshows are among the most common issues,” OPD said in a […]