Oakland CA

For the first time in its 89-year history, the Walnut Festival will not be held in Walnut Creek. It had to move this year because of construction at the usual location of Heather Farm Park.

Sixty-year-old Joey Alexander was shot and killed outside of San Francisco's main library after he told a man to stop doing drugs in public with children being around.

Residents in liberal San Francisco lash out at soft-on-crime policies, saying justice reform has gone too far after deadly crash case sparks fury.

Police in Oakland arrested two people Monday in connection with a Berkeley gunfight over the weekend, authorities report. Oakland police seized "multiple firearms and ammunition" after arresting the pair with the help of the OPD helicopter, police said. Both suspects had "several outstanding warrants for their...

An Albany resident who thought they were simply helping out new neighbors by offering flowers from their garden was, in fact, the victim of a calculated distraction burglary. The incident, which occurred last Tuesday, was swiftly followed by a similar report involving two women with matching descriptions at another...

Public bikeshare programs are hardly new in the U.S. The first one launched in Washington, D.C. in 2008, and according to a Bureau of Transportation Statistics report in 2025, the country currently has 72 docked and 80 dockless bikeshare systems. But an e-bike sharing program is a relatively novel concept, and...

A megaquake in the Pacific Northwest could trigger a large earthquake along California’s San Andreas Fault, creating an unprecedented catastrophe up and down the Pacific Coast, new research shows.

In a recent account by the San Francisco Police Department, an altercation that spiraled into violence ended with one person hospitalized with a gunshot wound and another now facing numerous charges. The incident unfolded on September 21 in the Mission District, where officers responded quickly to reports of a...

On Tuesday, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee delivered her first State of the City address amid a host of problems usually only seen in much larger cities.

Gasoline prices hopped higher in the wake of a Chevron refinery fire in Southern California last week as the energy company seeks to maximize output from the fuel factory’s undamaged units. In several key markets across the state, including the Bay Area, average prices for regular unleaded gasoline were...