San Jose leaders ‘outraged’ after anonymous article outs racist police officers
City leaders along with San Jose’s police chief and police union vowed to investigate Friday after retired and active officers were accused of posting bigoted and racist comments in...Read More
Muir Woods opens gates to visitors at half capacity next week
The U.S. National Park Service will reopen recreational access Monday to Muir Woods National Monument with caveats to protect the health and safety of visitors to the park. Visitors...Read More
Contra Costa bans use of carotid restraint holds in DA’s investigative unit
Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton on Friday announced a new policy for investigators, banning the use of the carotid restraint hold technique. The ban applies to the...Read More
Trump answers cries for justice with threats of fascism
Change, inevitable and constant, flows like a lazy river until the currents of history accelerate into rapids of sudden crises.Read More
Could Yasiel Puig really fit into the 2020 Giants outfield?
Can 2020 get any weirder? The answer is: Yes. Read More
Covid-19 update: California breaks 200,000 cases, two Bay Area counties delay reopening plans
Simply, the U.S. is failing to control the 2019 novel coronavirus spread and the more states and localities reopen, the more intense new case spikes become. The rising numbers...Read More
Autopsy suggests meth contributed to man’s death in grocery store struggle
A preliminary autopsy shows a 34-year-old man who stopped breathing during a fight Wednesday night with a grocery employee died from a combination of drugs in his system and...Read More
San Jose libraries plan for devastating $1 million budget blow
The San Jose Public Library will lose more than $1 million in the upcoming budget year, leading to reduced hours and the elimination of dozens of full and part-time...Read More
Two men push 60-year-old woman to ground in attempted robbery
Police in Day City are investigating an attempted robbery that occurred last week. On June 15 at 9:29 p.m., officers with the Daly City Police Department responded to the...Read More
State grants SF variance approval to accelerate reopening
San Francisco residents will finally be able to get that haircut as soon as Monday. Officials said Thursday that the California Department of Public Health granted The City’s variance...Read More
Police arrest armed suspect in investigation of hit-and-run, shots fired
One person was arrested for having a loaded gun and drug-related offenses in Berkeley on Wednesday evening, police said. Officers responded at 7:52 p.m. to Oregon Street in South...Read More
San Jose mayor unveils nine-point police reform proposal as alternative to defunding
Mayor Sam Liccardo presented a nine-point proposal for reforming the San Jose Police Department Wednesday, striving to initiate tangible changes to how the city’s more than a million residents...Read More
Investigation underway in Tenderloin stabbing murder of 54-year-old man
Police in San Francisco are investigating the murder of a man who was allegedly stabbed in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood early Wednesday morning. According to police, officers initially responded...Read More
Suspect in custody after Alameda home invasion robbery
A homeless man was arrested Tuesday following a home invasion robbery in Alameda that injured a woman, police said. Officers were sent at 9:23 a.m. to a home on...Read More
Police say missing 12-year-old Oakland girl found safe
Oakland police have found a 12-year-old girl who was reported missing earlier this week. Kenise Cox had last been seen around 4 p.m. Tuesday leaving her home in the...Read More
SF school district cuts ties with campus police in unanimous vote
Amid a national movement to eliminate law enforcement from schools, the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday night voted unanimously to declare the city’s public...Read More
Local leaders mourn loss of former SF supervisor, LGBTQ activist Harry Britt
Former San Francisco supervisor and LGBTQ activist Harry Britt has passed away, a former state assemblyman confirmed Wednesday. Britt, an openly gay man, was appointed to serve on the...Read More
Gunfire damages window, walls of Potrero Hill home
San Francisco police are investigating a shooting into a home in the city’s Potrero Hill neighborhood on Tuesday morning. The shooting was reported at 8:27 a.m. in the 800...Read More
SF man faces hate crime charge for threat to shoot family over Black Lives Matter shirts
A 55-year-old San Francisco man has been charged with making criminal threats with a hate crime enhancement for allegedly threatening to shoot people wearing Black Lives Matter shirts at...Read More
Covid-19 update: Bay Area adds more than 600 new cases in one day, U.S. deaths surpass 120,000
The Bay Area added 630 positive Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Statewide infection and hospitalization rates paint an even more bleak picture. The reality is that the...Read More