More than 100 people rally on SF streets, urging city to enforce drug laws:...
People in recovery, formerly incarcerated individuals and advocates gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to call for stronger enforcement of laws related to public drug use and to urge city leaders to hold people accountable while expanding access to treatment.
As new Berkeley park emerges, those who fought for it for decades are ‘ecstatic’
For half a century, a four-block stretch of former rail line through Southwest Berkeley has been fenced off and neglected — weedy, overgrown and mostly unused due to the soil that’s laced with heavy metals like arsenic. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE PARK. Now, city crews are remediating...
4 apartment units damaged, 3 cats rescued in San Leandro fire
(KRON) — The Alameda County Fire Department said four apartment units were damaged after a fire broke out at an apartment building in San Leandro on Tuesday evening. No injuries were reported, and firefighters rescued three cats from the scene. The fire was reported just after 6:50 p.m. in the 4700 block of Springlake
Alameda County to pay $12M over death of 8-year-old Sophia Mason
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors will pay $12 million to the grandmother of Sophia Mason, 8, who died in her mother's care despite repeated child abuse calls to the county welfare system. As part of the settlement, a public bench in her name will be erected in Hayward and...
SF General Hospital seeks help to ID elderly patient
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) is urgently asking for the public’s help to identify a recently admitted elderly female patient. The hospital said the woman was admitted to ZSFG on August 3 at approximately 5 a.m. in the lobby of 121 7th Street. She is described
SFPD Attributes Largest Group of Officer Transfers In Years to Its ‘Aggressive’ Recruiting Efforts
The SFPD's controversial billboard recruiting campaign stunt last fall appears to have paid off, as the department says it welcomed 12 lateral transfers this year — its largest class in a decade and among the highest paid in the nation. The San Francisco Police Department swore in 12 experienced...
Someone is poisoning trees at a popular Lake Tahoe beach, sheriff says
Someone has repeatedly targeted trees at Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village, authorities say.
San Francisco rollover crash disrupts traffic and Muni service
One vehicle landed on its side after a collision at Divisadero and Grove streets, but all occupants got out and no one was hospitalized, police said.
Muni is rolling out extra buses on some of its most congested routes
The changes, set to go into effect in late August, are meant to avoid packed buses by increasing availability.
Berkeley U-Haul repairman paid teen for sex, police say
An auto repairman has been charged with paying a teenage girl for sex in a trailer at the Berkeley U-Haul where he worked, court papers say. The investigation began in Richmond in June, when officers there responded to a disturbance in a vehicle. Inside, they found 59-year-old Frank Vieira with a 17-year-old girl who s
