This hit Hawaii poke shop is coming to the Bay Area
The Oahu-based poke shop with a cult following and a Netflix feature is about to make its Northern California debut in the South Bay.
California to buy defunct horse track and turn it into the Bay Area’s newest...
California lawmakers struck a deal to divert $125 million in climate funding to buy the former Golden Gate Fields track and turn it into a park. Gov. Gavin Newsom supports the project.
Family of young mother killed in hit-and-run still seeking answers three weeks later
The family of Maribel Pablo Matias, the 24-year-old Stockton resident who was run over by a driver on 73rd Avenue in Oakland on August 8, told The Oaklandside this week that they are still seeking “justice” for her death weeks later. Matias, the mother of a 7-year-old child,...
A strained S.F. cultural center received $11 million in city funds. An audit reveals...
The financial probe offers clarity to how the 37-year-old institution handled millions of dollars in city funding.
Quickly spreading wildfires trigger evacuations along Calif. coast
Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A pair of wildfires burning along California's Big Sur region expanded quickly over the weekend, jumping containment lines, closing roads and triggering extensive evacuations. The Plaskett fire and the Timber fire have been burning for weeks in the rugged terrain of Monterrey and San Luis Obispo...
Five hospitalized after Mission Street apartment fire
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A mass casualty incident was declared Saturday night in San Francisco after a fire broke out at an apartment building in the 1800 block of Mission Street, according to the fire department. Firefighters responded around 10:30 p.m. after receiving multiple calls reporting smoke coming from the four
Marin County officials ID San Francisco camper who died while canoeing in Tomales Bay
San Francisco resident Casey Flynn Melia, 36, was identified as one of the bodies recovered from Tomales Bay on Sunday.
U.S. city faces criticism over challenges enforcing theft laws
San Francisco’s theft laws have become a point of debate, especially as California has changed how lower-value and repeat theft cases are handled. But the story is more complicated than a simple claim that theft goes unpunished. California raised its general grand-theft threshold to $950 in 2010. Proposition 47...
Retail theft crackdown leads to arrests at REI and local grocery stores
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco’s District Attorney has charged 15 people with a variety of shoplifting related offenses ranging from grand theft to petty theft. Authorities say Erick Rock, Johanna Daniels and Dennis Kelley have ripped off the REI in San Francisco multiple times, and police say they have the secur
Bay Area man paralyzed after saving 2 children from ocean rip tide
A Contra Costa County native is fighting to recover after breaking his neck while attempting to save two children caught in a Southern California rip current. Josh Collette, 42, of Concord, jumped into the ocean two weeks ago to rescue two children caught in a rip current in San Clemente. While the children made it out
