SF navigation center workers accused of harboring gunman
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Two employees of San Francisco’s Bayshore Navigation Center face the possibility of prison after being charged with trying to help a fugitive evade arrest. It was on May 31 that San Francisco Police Department officer Brittney Taylor was shot while trying to apprehend a robbery suspect. She has s
Teen arrested, 2 suspects at-large in El Cerrito homicide investigation
(KRON) — An 18-year-old Richmond man who police said was an accomplice to a homicide in El Cerrito over the weekend was found and arrested Monday. Authorities are still searching for the shooter and the getaway driver. Jacari Talifero Gibson was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on counts of murder and robber
‘Irate’ customer threatened to shoot, kill San Rafael bank employees: PD
(KRON) — A 72-year-old Petaluma man was arrested a week after “an irate customer” allegedly entered a San Rafael bank and threatened to shoot and kill the employees, according to the San Rafael Police Department on Tuesday. SRPD said detectives discovered several guns, including two unserialized rifles, during his arr
Oakland: Girl Missing Since Sunday Found Safe
An Oakland girl reported missing since Sunday has been found safe. Police officials announced at about 9:45 a.m. Tuesday that Huitzilin Nieves-Nieto was safely located. She had been last seen at about 4 p.m. Sunday in the 2400 block of Renwick Street in Oakland. Police didn't provide any additional details...
These 8 Bay Area Restaurants Are Asking You to Pay What You Can
It started with a simple idea: In this time when dining out is an increasingly unattainable proposition for so many people, what if restaurants took money out of the equation? What if — for one day, at least — diners only had to pay however much they could afford?
Fuel spill crash snarls traffic on westbound I-80 at MacArthur Maze in Oakland
A major crash and fuel spill at the MacArthur Maze in Oakland blocked lanes and caused significant traffic delays on Westbound I-80 Tuesday morning.
This Historic California Ice Cream Parlor Has Been Scooping Homemade Flavors For Over 100...
Some families measure the passing years in birthday candles. Others measure them in trips to a certain Oakland ice cream parlor, where a single sundae can feed a whole table and still leave leftovers for the car ride home. Generations of East Bay kids have grown up here, then returned...
Train to shut down part of Haight Street for San Francisco block party
Train is taking its new album back to the San Francisco neighborhood that inspired it — with a live performance and block party.
Real estate mega-merger apartment deals in Bay Area top $700 million
A real estate mega-merger triggered the purchases of at least seven apartment complexes in the South Bay and East Bay for a combined total that tops $700 million, public documents show. As of Aug. 24, purchases related to the merger of real estate firms Avalon Bay and Equity Residential involved...
USGS: In San Francisco Bay, even an exceptionally wet year can’t supply enough sediment...
From the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program. Extreme rainfall can send huge amounts of sediment rushing off hillsides and into streams. But a new USGS study finds that even an exceptionally wet year may deliver only a small fraction of that sediment to San Francisco Bay—far short of what is needed to
