Oakland Property Owner Cut Down Dozens of Trees — Then the City Considered a...
Photo credit: AI-generated image created using CHATGPT. Illustrative only. On a leafy stretch of Claremont Avenue in Oakland, what started as a property owner clearing trees for a future home turned into a case city staff describe as extreme: dozens of mature trees cut down, repeated site visits by arborists and police
Landmark restaurant in Oakland’s Jack London Square area closes.
The customers, former co-workers, and family came to say good-bye to Derreck Johnson and his landmark Home of Chicken and Waffles restaurant, a Black-owned business known as a late-night food and drink stop for decades, serving celebrities and politicians as well as Oakland residents alike. The final day was August 31.
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...
