Oakland CA

A swarm of storms is bringing light winds and rain to the area.

Lu Lu’s House is a 501c3 organization based in Oakland, founded by Mr. Zirl Wilson and Mr. Tracy Lambert, both previously incarcerated. After their release from jail, they wanted to change things for the better in the community — and wow, have they done that!. The duo developed...

San Francisco police are asking for the public’s help to find 71-year-old Eileen Hway, who vanished last Friday in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood and has not been seen since. She was last spotted around 1:30 PM near Washington and Stockton streets and is believed to be on foot.

Betty Reid Soskin, the beloved historian, musician and oldest U.S. park ranger until her 2022 retirement, died Sunday at her Richmond home.

(KRON) — Police are investigating a robbery at an East Bay mall Sunday. The Concord Police Department received multiple reports about a smash-and-grab robbery at a jewelry store inside Sunvalley Shopping Center at approximately 11:53 a.m. CPD did not name the store. Suspects allegedly used hammers to break display...

I never thought of the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa holidays as being associated with what many would consider scary images, but this week’s walks around Alameda proved otherwise. The yard display titled “Merry Krampus,” with some devilish looking characters, caught my eye as I was walking on Sherman Street near Buena...

In San Francisco's Sunset District, controversy continues over what to do with the Great Highway. Friday, the newly-appointed supervisor for that district, Alan Wong, confirmed he is running to keep his job. He also shared that he would support a ballot measure that would bring cars back to the now-closed stretch of...

Seven months after two friends vanished in East Oakland, police are now searching a fortified warehouse and quietly bracing for the worst in a case that has families fearing a deadly fallout from an alleged local chop shop operation. The missing men, Justin Wayne Lee, 29, and Esmeraldo Hernandez Vivero,...

A swarm of at least a dozen earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 3.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The other quakes in the Saturday, Dec. 21, swarm ranged from magnitude 1.3 to 3.0, according to the USGS. San Ramon earlier was hit by a swarm of more than 90 quakes starting...

Let’s begin by acknowledging that overall, the 925 is a very safe place to live. Comparatively speaking, there’s very little crime here. That makes it even more shocking, though, when something truly crazy happens. And sadly, we had plenty such happenings in 2025. The first one that stands...