Oakland CA

Thirty-six days into the government shutdown — now the longest in U.S. history — two local businesses are dipping into their own funds to provide free and discounted food to the community for those with a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, card. Following the government shutdown in...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – In a preliminary hearing this week in San Francisco Superior Court, a man was charged with aiding and abetting a robbery committed by two acquaintances at a Target in Oakland before being arrested in San Francisco after crossing the Bay Bridge. The accused and his...

Nothing feels like a waste of time like sitting in traffic, but residents of one California city spend more time stuck in it than any other.

UC Berkeley police are investigating a robbery via gun that took place Monday night, according to preliminary reports. The robbery happened at about 10:25 p.m. Monday on Ridge Road north of the UC Berkeley campus , according to emergency dispatches reviewed by The Scanner. Police said the culprit took someone's...

While your local Mo-and-Blo crew has been blowing sticky wet leaves down the road, past your window and under your front door at runway sound levels for the past decade or so it appears Walnut Creek is ready to look at alternatives – after we get through the current Winter Leaf Drop, at least.

Oakland’s Morcom Rose Garden, a collection of thousands of showy shrubs and vines tucked away in a amphitheater setting in the Grand Lake neighborhood, was recently vandalized by thieves who stole 51 rose bushes. The Oct. 16 theft wasn’t the first time plants at the city park have been...

A man who spent hours inside a UC Berkeley sorority watching women sleep and possibly stealing their underwear has been arrested, police report. The incident took place early Saturday morning in the 2300 block of Warring Street north of Channing Way, according to Berkeley police and community members familiar with...

After years of offering hard-to-find homestyle dishes from Mexico’s Jalisco state, one of the East Bay’s most prominent home restaurants is making the move to a full restaurant space.

RICHMOND, Calif. - CalFresh recipients in Contra Costa County will, starting Monday, be able to get debit cards to cover the cost of groceries while their benefits are on hold. Kalona Foster relies on the $700 a month she receives in SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, called CalFresh in California)...

(KRON) — One person was rescued Wednesday morning after a small sailboat crashed into the rock wall near the Encinal Boat Ramp in Alameda. The vessel was taking on water when rescue personnel responded just after 7 a.m., according to the Alameda Fire Department. One person was rescued and treated at a nearby hospital...