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SAN FRANCISCO - Crews began to demolish San Francisco's iconic Alioto’s Restaurant, a classic seafood eatery at Fisherman's Wharf, on Monday – the start of a process that will pave the way for a new plaza, slated to open this summer. The green Alioto's sign was among the...

(KRON) — The family of one of the three people killed in a shooting at an Oakland market around 3 a.m. Saturday has started a GoFundMe to help pay for his funeral expenses. The victim, Miguel Ramirez Rivera, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when he was shot to death at Sky […]

(KRON) — A local woman who was reported missing Friday after she went for a hike along Codfish Falls Trail was found dead Monday, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office announced. The woman was identified as 40-year-old Eryn VanAcker of the Bay Area, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office told KRON4 News. Her body was...

About 200 billionaires residing in California could face a 5% one-time tax.

(KRON) — The mayor of the Bay Area’s largest cities is hitting out at a proposed billionaire tax that’s already got some of the wealthiest people in California posturing about leaving the state. Known as the California Billionaire Tax Act, the proposed legislation would levy a one-time 5% tax on Californians worth...

(KRON) — A person was rescued from the frigid San Francisco Bay water near the Embarcadero this morning. Rescuers with the San Francisco Fire Department and San Francisco Police Department responded to a call for an adult clinging to a rope in the water at Pier 9 around 8:30 a.m. “Firefighters arrived on the scene […]

The collision closed westbound lanes of Interstate 80 in Vallejo for almost two hours Sunday morning.

Record-breaking high tides struck parts of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Coast on Saturday, triggering significant flooding across the region during the weekend. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a coastal flood warning for the San Francisco Bay shore through Saturday, warning that tides could...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The San Francisco Zoo is mourning the loss of two unique animals after both were found to be deteriorating rapidly from health conditions. Eno, a 34-year-old red-bellied lemur, was the last of his kind across all North American zoos. Freckles, a 19-year-old Magellanic penguin, stood out among...

Fresh scrutiny of records surrounding the death of Suchir Balaji, the 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher who died on Nov. 26, 2024, is cutting through months of online speculation. Newly reviewed video, building logs and official documents are tightening the timeline and undercutting some of the most explosive...