Oakland CA

(KRON) — Officers were investigating several reports of a person armed with a firearm in public on Thursday afternoon along with calls of an armed suspect asleep inside a vehicle, according to the Oakland Police Department. The incident occurred around 2:15 p.m. on the 2700 block of Fruitvale Avenue. “When officers...

(KRON) — “His vehicle went from being loaded with booze to being loaded onto a tow truck headed to car jail.” Vacaville police said an Oakland man was found to have nearly $3,000 worth of stolen merchandise last Friday after he allegedly walked out of a store with a shopping cart full of unpaid alcohol. […]

More than $10,000 in cash. Methamphetamine. Gambling machines. This is just a taste of the contraband found in Tenderloin shops — evidence San Francisco officials say is proof that a late-night store curfew should continue and be expanded within some of the city’s most troubled neighborhoods. Launched in...

Residents and visitors along Northern California’s coastline are being urged to exercise extreme caution as dangerous flooding conditions threaten multiple regions through the weekend. The National Weather Service issued a coastal flood advisory Thursday morning, warning that elevated tides combined with storm surge...

OAKLAND — Soul group New Edition kicked off a 30-date arena tour with Boyz II Men and Toni Braxton on Wednesday at Oakland Arena, bringing together three of the most popular acts of the ’80s and ’90s. The New Edition Way Tour presented a unique perspective with...

(KRON) — For nearly a decade, Neiman Marcus was an anchor store for luxury shopping in Walnut Creek’s already ritzy downtown area. For whatever void Neiman Marcus left five years ago when it shut down, there is now more clarity on what will take over the space on 1000 S Main St. A Restoration Hardware […]

(KRON) — Two felons allegedly carried out a deadly triple shooting inside a neighborhood market in East Oakland, prosecutors said. Three victims were fatally shot in Sky Market, located at 8433 International Blvd., on January 3, according to police. Two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and the third...

In the largest Medicare Advantage fraud settlement to date, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by submitting unsupported diagnosis codes to Medicare Advantage. The government alleged the scheme occurred between 2009 and 2018 in...

For five years now, Oakland has struggled with immense budget deficits. The city’s most recent financial forecast shows budget gaps hovering around $120 million each year until 2030, forcing major cuts to spending unless the city finds new revenues. One major source of overspending in the city is the...

If you have ever zipped between San Francisco and Oakland on BART, you have ridden through one of the Bay Area's most unusual pieces of infrastructure: the Transbay Tube -- a one-of-a-kind underwater tunnel built more like a ship than a subway tunnel.