Oakland CA

A dispute at an Oakland First Fridays event allegedly led 19-year-old Davione Sharp to seek out and fatally shoot Derrick Hubbard on April 18. A retaliatory shooting occurred that same evening when associates of Hubbard pursued Sharp and Isaanae Morton, leading to Morton’s death while Sharp survived. Authorities have...

OAKLAND — A settlement announced Tuesday has finally ended a war of words between two major Bay Area airports. San Francisco officials filed a lawsuit after the Port of Oakland, which owns and operates the city’s airport, approved a name change from Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport in 2024, in the hope of drawing more travelers by emphasizing the aviation’s...

A bogus custom license plate reading “Bay Area” didn’t get past California Highway Patrol officers, the agency reported. The homemade print-out , complete with fake registration tags, was spotted by an officer in the commercial operations unit, the Golden Gate CHP office said in a Monday post to Facebook. “Your license plate is not an arts & craft project,” the CHP wrote of the red...

(KRON) — A 12-year-old girl who was reported missing Tuesday morning in Union City has been located, police announced in an update at 10:48 a.m.

The Acalanes Union High School District (AUHSD) is staring at significant budget cuts unless local taxpayers open up their wallets. Three nearby elementary school districts are caught in the same trap, and school districts around the state are struggling to pay teachers and limit class sizes. At the same time,...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Work got underway Monday to dismantle the controversial Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza, despite an ongoing legal challenge over its removal. Crews began the first phase Monday, removing grout and cataloging sections of the Brutalist concrete structure for possible reassembly elsewhere. Larger pieces, including arms weighing up to 10 tons are […]

In the bustling streets of San Francisco where tech enthusiasts and artists alike navigate their daily routines a silent wave is spreading. Health monitors have detected unusually high levels of several common viruses making their way through the population. This instance of multiple viruses SF has brought renewed attention to how cities recover from major […] The post SF is getting ravaged by multiple viruses...

Pierre Constant was arrested in September 2024 for an assault in the Tenderloin that he did not commit. On April 10, 2026, a San Francisco jury acquitted him of all charges. He had spent 18 months in jail—in large part, his public defender says, because the police and district attorney’s office failed to turn over in a timely fashion evidence that exonerated him...

WALNUT CREEK, CALIFORNIA – Love the idea of strolling around your favorite town, cocktail in hand, like it’s 2021 again (but without the hassle of a global pandemic)?. The Walnut Creek City Council is moving forward with a plan to create a downtown “Entertainment Zone,” a state-enabled program that would allow adults to buy alcoholic beverages from participating licensed businesses and consume them in...

Hi Chonkers! 🦭 The hype is continuing to build around the 2,000-pound Steller sea lion that's attracting a lot of attention at San Francisco's Pier 39.