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Federal prosecutors are telling a judge they are not hanging their corruption case against recalled Oakland mayor Sheng Thao on a single cooperating witness, but on a thick stack of documentary and electronic records. In a new court filing this week, they push back hard on defense efforts to toss evidence seized...

The union representing 31,000 nurses and other workers at  Kaiser Permanente plan to start an open-ended strike Monday at locations in California and Hawaii, including in the Bay Area.

Law enforcement agencies from across the Bay Area and Central Coast, along with the FBI, busted an alleged fuel theft ring in a multi-agency operation Wednesday.

San Jose police said the incident began at a San Jose dealership when the suspect entered with a gun and stole a vehicle around 2 p.m. The suspect then left the city and was spotted by a San Jose police helicopter in San Benito County.

Toxicology tests have answered the grim question that has hung over the chess world for months. Daniel Naroditsky, the Bay Area-born grandmaster and beloved online coach who died in October, had a mix of stimulants and kratom compounds in his system, and the medical examiner has ruled his death an accident.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – On January 15, 2026, officers from the San Francisco Police Department responded to a report of a shooting in the vicinity of 16th Street and San Bruno Avenue. Upon arrival at approximately 9:42 p.m., responding officers located an individual suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.

ORINDA, CALIFORNIA – There are a lot of moving parts, places, and people in this one, so please bear with us. A violent overnight incident that began in Oakley ended on Highway 24 in Orinda after a pursuit early Monday, with two juvenile suspects now in custody on attempted homicide and kidnapping-related...

MENDOCINO CO., 1/19/26 – The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to search this week for a missing Philo teen whose car was last seen in San Francisco. Sara Gene Keene, 17, was last seen leaving her foster parents’ home in Philo around 11 a.m. Jan. 2. Her vehicle, a white 2013 Acura TSX four-door sedan...

When retired San Francisco Police Department Sgt. Shaughn Ryan (opens in new tab) took the stand Nov. 18 in a quadruple murder case, he was in rough shape. The former cop, whom prosecutors had flown in from his home in Australia, was found drunk and bloodied on an Embarcadero sidewalk just four days prior, according...

Dozens of renters displaced by a monstrous blaze in their downtown building Monday quickly received a letter from their landlord announcing their leases had been “terminated.”. The renters could make an escorted trip to their scorched apartments to retrieve their belongings and return their keys, receiving a refund...