First police officer elected as Salinas mayor dies Monday night
Salinas Mayor Joe Gunter died Monday night, city and Monterey County officials said. Gunter was elected as mayor in 2012 and also served as a Salinas police officer and...Read More
Oakland A’s offer fans chance to ‘attend’ games as cardboard cutouts
Oakland A’s fans won’t be able to watch the team in person this season because of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic, but the team announced Tuesday that people can...Read More
Council fills five San Jose Planning Commission vacancies in two voting rounds
The San Jose City Council held a special meeting on Monday to fill five vacancies in the city’s Planning Commission. Meetings with the 14 candidates were split between Friday...Read More
Police arrest suspect after bus stop crash injures 4-year-old boy, three women
A 37-year-old man was arrested after crashing into a bus stop in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood, injuring a 4-year-old boy and three other people, and then trying to...Read More
State senator hosts Vallejo ‘justice in policing’ town hall
State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, is hosting a Justice in Policing Virtual Town Hall on Tuesday evening that will include a panel of community leaders and give the public...Read More
Covid-19 update: Newsom hits ‘dimmer switch’ on state’s reopening plans, four Bay Area counties pause next phase, U.S. fails...
Four Bay Area counties are now pausing their next reopening phases as rising trends sound alarms for local and state officials monitoring the situation. The state’s governor is considering...Read More
Investigators determine arson involved in Iron Horse Trail fires
Contra Costa County Fire Protection District crews contained multiple fires reported Monday afternoon along the Iron Horse Regional Trail between the cities of Pleasant Hill and Concord. Crews responded...Read More
San Jose woman dies after vehicles goes up embankment, strikes tree
A 23-year-old San Jose woman died in a solo-vehicle crash reported Monday afternoon on southbound Interstate Highway 280 in unincorporated San Mateo County, according to the California Highway Patrol....Read More
Muni hopes to work around returning traffic with temporary transit-only lanes
San Francisco transit officials are seeking solutions to prevent Muni buses from getting stuck in major traffic jams as more people decide to drive and fewer choose to use...Read More
Man dies at scene of East Oakland stabbing attack
A man was fatally stabbed in East Oakland early Monday morning, according to police. Officers responded at 2:54 a.m. to a report of a man on the ground and...Read More
Firefighters rescue two people from burning Excelsior District home
San Francisco firefighters rescued two people from a burning home in the city’s Excelsior District on Monday morning, fire officials said. Fire officials first reported the one-alarm fire on...Read More
Investigators say speed a factor in Byron Highway fatal rollover crash
A 27-year-old man died after a rollover crash off of Byron Highway in eastern Contra Costa County early Monday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. Officers responded at...Read More
DA set to dismiss more than 2,700 Sonoma County marijuana convictions
The pending dismissal of 2,735 marijuana convictions was announced Friday as part of a program by Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch that uses a state software application to...Read More
Coroner identifies 29-year-old missing boater found dead Sunday
A man found dead Sunday morning after being reported missing Friday night in Indian Slough near Discovery Bay has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner’s office as...Read More
Red flag fire warning: Marin County shuts down parks, urges extreme caution
Restrictions on public recreation areas in Marin County have been put into effect during the red flag warning issued by the National Weather Service for elevations of 1,000 feet...Read More
Advocates rally for San Quentin inmate release amid massive Covid-19 outbreak
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights will join faith leaders and advocates at a rally Sunday at the main gates of San Quentin State Prison in Marin County...Read More
Oakland students team with 3D printers to build hundreds of hospital face shields
Madison Park Academy students created more than 700 face shields to donate to hospitals across the country amid to Covid-19 pandemic. High school students in Tawana Guillaume’s engineering pathway...Read More
Drone forces fire aircraft to ground during Parish Fire control effort
Crews are at the scene of a brush fire Saturday afternoon near Interstate Highway 680 near Cordelia in Solano County, Cal Fire said. No evacuations have been ordered as...Read More
Federal anti-immigrant policies exacerbate Covid-19 impact on people of color
After months of proffering an often piecemeal and chaotic response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the federal government is still failing to extend protections to the nation’s vulnerable immigrant...Read More
Domestic violence call leads to man’s arrest for slew of suspected offenses
A Fairfield man was arrested in connection with several crimes Friday including domestic violence and driving under the influence of alcohol. Muhammad Abdullah, 35, was arrested on suspicion of...Read More