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CAMPBELL, Calif. - A veteran Bay Area firefighter who made history in her fire department is being remembered for her leadership and dedication to her job and to her community. What we know:. Plans are underway for a memorial service this week to honor 58-year-old Santa Clara County Battalion Chief...

(KRON) — An Oakland murder suspect suffered a “medical emergency” and died inside a cell at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, officials said. Inmate Jeffrey Bryce McMaster, 44, of Oakland, died on Saturday afternoon, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said. “Deputies heard a noise coming from the cell. Upon opening the cell

Would you believe that a TV parody of James Bond movies from the 1960s would inspire the name of a bar on Geary Boulevard two decades later?. Would you believe that same bar still sits on the corner of 11th Avenue 40 years after that?. How about the San Francisco...

Deborah Gregory, 43, had never been what she calls a “program person” — someone who sticks with addiction treatment. But she found out she was pregnant a few months ago, and she didn’t want her baby taken away. So she agreed to try Women’s Hope, a...

One of San Francisco's most maddeningly impossible reservations has gone dark — but the more interesting story is where its owners are headed next. After four years of plating an obsessively crafted ramen tasting menu for a dozen diners a night, Clint and Yoko Tan have closed Noodle in a Haystack, their cult Inner Rich

Tierra Simms has walked the two blocks from her SoMa workplace to the 7th Street jail countless times. After each visit, the 37-year-old returns with one or a handful of people just released from jail. Many lug their belongings in transparent plastic bags as they follow her back to her office.

(KRON)– Boutonnieres, electric blue punch, live music, taffeta, and teased hair could be found all around in the Rockridge BART parking lot on Saturday night. And yes, you heard that right. The 80s came back to life Saturday night at BART Prom, a first-of-its-kind event themed “Enchantment Under the C Line,” merging th

When I moved to Potrero Hill in 2002, the entire block of 17th Street between Kansas and Rhode Island was a pit, 40 feet deep at one end and strewn with graffiti. The site was once a service center for S&C Ford. But for a few years, the block had been a void — an open wound in the neighborhood, ripe for some sort of pl

Red Dog Saloon was a real movie set, where cowboys would ride in on horseback.

Teachers, parents and staff say leadership turnover, staffing decisions and declining enrollment fueled the collapse of the North Oakland charter school. Berkley Maynard Academy, a charter school in North Oakland serving predominantly Black students, is shutting down. Students’ final class on Tuesday marks a dramatic d