Oakland CA

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s latest solution to the city’s homelessness and drug crisis involves displacing 82 residents from a behavioral health hospital to make space for a crisis psychiatric ward serving those on the streets. Soon, patients at the Behavioral Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General...

A man from Piedmont was arrested for DUI in the early hours of May 24. Police contacted the man at approximately 12:12 a.m. near Ramona Avenue after the vehicle was observed speeding and weaving, according to Piedmont Police Captain Chris Monahan. He said a chemical sample was taken and that unspent ammunition was...

Tamalpais Union High School District board members say they'd like to cut the $250,000 program with consultants and run it with current staff. Many community members of all races were outraged by the decision.

San Francisco budget officials studied, then quietly scrapped, a novel idea to convert private car infrastructure into a funding spigot for public transit: charging any property owner with a driveway.

A police chase on Wednesday that the California Highway Patrol says was called off early culminated in the death of a bystander, Marvin Boomer, an Oakland teacher. Immediately, the incident was drafted into California’s ongoing debate about police pursuit policy and whether the theoretical crime-fighting benefits of...

On a somber Friday morning, as Castlemont seniors lined up at the Paramount Theatre in purple and white graduation regalia, some of Marvin Boomer’s former students and colleagues gathered at the campus, trying to keep busy. Poisonous hemlock needed to be weeded from the campus farm. Canopies and workstations...

A pedestrian died after being hit by a vehicle in San Francisco's Richmond District early Monday morning, according to police.

OAKLAND, Calif. - It's been a familiar sight in Oakland's Chinatown, an all-volunteeer patrol taking a walk with police to build connections. But on Tuesday, the group was joined not only by Oakland police but a BART officer and an Oakland CHP captain as well. Together, they met local merchants,...

A longtime felon has now been charged in connection with a shooting investigation in northwest Berkeley that closed an intersection for hours Monday. According to court records, 31-year-old Alex Foster was charged with shooting into an occupied apartment, possessing a firearm and ammunition and other crimes. Berkeley...

He founder of a local cryptocurrency company wants to donate nearly nine-and-a-half million dollars to a new San Francisco Police Department surveillance unit. The donation is from a nonprofit created by Ripple Labs founder Chris Larsen. Mission Local reports the donations would be funnelled through The San Francisco...