Oakland CA

HAYWARD, Calif. (KRON) — In North Hayward, messages on Cherryland Elementary School windows read, “Be kind,” and their marquee reads, “Be responsible, be respectful, and be safe.” But on Friday, the community didn’t feel safe. “Schools are just tender places that when families begin to lose trust and faith in their...

Health officials have temporarily closed a pho restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area after a video went viral showing a worker repeatedly slamming a slab of meat on the ground. TikTok user @sergiogarcia9100 posted video of the worker at Pho Love in Milpitas, California, slamming frozen beef ribs onto broken-down...

Food banks are scrambling to keep up with a continued surge in demand as Bay Area families are still recovering from lapses in federal food benefits triggered by the government shutdown. The need could grow even greater as millions nationwide stand to lose benefits once new work requirements kick in...

A person posing as a courier brandished a gun and tied up the victim at a home in the Mission Dolores neighborhood Saturday morning, police say.

CONCORD, Calif. - A suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Sunday after Concord police tracked them to their home from the scene of a reported assault. Concord Police Department officers were sent just before 10:45 a.m. to a home in the city on reports of "an assault with a firearm," according to a...

San Francisco’s hotel market is now producing the kind of price tags usually reserved for distressed malls and failed office parks, with marquee properties changing hands at roughly a quarter of what they fetched less than a decade ago. The steep markdowns capture a broader reset in a downtown that has struggled to...

Flax, a beloved local art store in Oakland, is set to close its doors in March. The news came as a shock to many in the community who had come to rely on the store for their art supplies. The closure is due to the building owner's decision not to renew the store's 10-year lease. This unfortunate news has left many...

Waymo is getting the green light to test and eventually expand its driverless taxi service across the entire Bay Area and beyond. The DMV gave the go-ahead Friday to the company to launch the robotaxis in the North Bay, East Bay and eastward to Sacramento.

Dana Berry set out for Lake Merritt in Oakland, thinking it would be just another normal day with the Trash Falcons cleanup crew. But that simple plan flipped in an instant. While moving through the usual piles of debris, Dana went to shift a large cardboard box sitting inside a discarded bin. That’s when he heard a...

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