Oakland CA

San Francisco just created a reparations fund that could one day pay Black residents $5 million each. The catch is the fund has no money, no funding source, and the city is staring down a $1 billion deficit. The Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 to establish the framework, and Mayor...

San Francisco’s Drug Court is seeing a swelling volume of cases. Some of them have included defendants accused of violent crimes they said were motivated by underlying substance abuse disorders.

HydeFM, based in San Francisco’s Mission District, is asking its listeners to help cover monthly operating expenses so that it can remain on-air past March.

For more than six decades, Albany Body Shop has quietly built a reputation on San Pablo Avenue that doesn’t rely on flashy marketing or shortcuts—just consistency, craftsmanship, and pride in the work. It’s the kind of place where the business has outlasted trends, technologies, and even generations, all while...

A 3.0 magnitude quake was detected east of San Ramon, followed by two smaller ones Friday morning.

An e-bike rebate program run by a local energy agency had a massive impact in its first six months, with nearly 2,746 new e-bikes — including 762 in Oakland — subsidized in its first six months. Ava Community Energy, formerly East Bay Community Energy, partnered with the Alameda...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has charged a man with murder in Oakland's first homicide of 2026. Police arrested 42-year-old Brian Spikes Hopkins in connection with the shooting death of 47-year-old Edward Williams. Investigators say Williams was shot and killed near 20th Street and...

Family and friends hold a vigil for a missing woman in Reno with ties to Oakland.

Most of you know by now that our Flash System lit up last night with word of a police pursuit of sorts pushing from Moraga into Lafayette with officers behind a group of teens on electric motorcycles. Here’s a bit more of that story, from Moraga PD:. At approximately...

A 59-year-old man has died more than a month after suffering a traumatic head injury in a scooter crash on the UC Berkeley campus, authorities said.