Fremont police seek public’s help locating missing 16-year-old girl
Katie Hong, 16, was last seen at her residence on Queens Court on Friday evening, wearing a navy blue zip up jacket, gray sweats and a red Patagonia backpack.
Oakland, San Jose join nationwide protests against federal spending cuts to Medicaid, social programs
In the Bay Area, healthcare workers, union leaders, and Medicaid recipients gathered in San Jose and Oakland to take part in "Families First" protests. Organizers said the new law threatens critical services for millions of low-income Americans.
Local mom’s saga sheds light on high cost of emergency room visits
A Los Gatos mother is raising the alarm about Good Samaritan Hospital billings after receiving a nearly $30,000 invoice following her son’s short hospital visit. Christine Sterpetti, 59, says she and her husband brought her son (who was in 8th grade at the time) to the emergency room to get checked out after he fell...
Covey Cottages provides permanent housing for local veterans in need
A new housing development aims to support homeless veterans, offering fully furnished homes designed for accessibility and comfort
California’s NPR and PBS stations will cut staff and programs after funding slashed
Public radio and TV stations across California say they are cutting local programming and laying off staff after Congress approved major funding cuts.
Rare purple snails was ashore California beach
A rare species of sea snail, Janthina janthina, was found at a beach in Southern California.
25,000 Safeway employees could go on strike Sunday if deal isn’t reached, union says
A strike involving thousands of Safeway workers across the state and here in the Bay Area was averted for now. But the union says, if a deal isn't reach by midnight, 25,000 employees could go on strike at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
Fact Check: Gavin Newsom And His Wife Did NOT Create Cal Volunteers To Steal...
Did California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife create Cal Volunteers to steal money raised by FireAid? No, that's not true: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, not Newsom, created California Volunteers, also known as Cal Volunteers, in 2006. FireAid, which was organized to help victims of the Los Angeles fires in January...
Police searching for missing youth
A search-and-rescue operation for a 15-year-old male, missing since Wednesday morning in Watsonville, is underway in the Laken area off of Holohan Road. About dozen search and rescue members were joined by nine Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies at a command post set up on Grimmer Lane early Thursday morning where...
The LA River tests positive for harmful ‘forever chemicals’ in 41 of 45 samples
In samples collected by The Waterkeeper Alliance from rivers and tributary sites in Los Angeles, multiple types of “forever chemicals” were found.
