The 17-year-old driver who allegedly killed three people in East Oakland and sent three others to the hospital Saturday night has been charged with felony hit-and-run and three counts of felony vehicular manslaughter, according to police officials.
After less than two hours of deliberation on Monday, a jury in Oakland rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI and its leaders CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman.
The pair, both retired and living in Stockton, returned to college after long, successful careers in public service while raising children.
Plans have recently advanced to transform a former horse racing track in Albany and an industrial lot on the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline in East Oakland into waterfront parks. Together, the two projects could add 168 acres of public green space and shoreline access on the East Bay.
Taught by Elan Lavie, the class was approved last school year after 12th grader Shannon Chen petitioned for it. After surveying how many students were interested in the class and able to enroll in it, the course was approved for the second semester this year.
“I feel bad for Lodi, because they did everything right — marketing, matching varietals with their area, promoting sustainability — and they’re still struggling,” Christian Miller, the director of research for the Wine Market Council, a market research firm that concentrates on U.S. wine consumption trends.
A Daly City man was arrested this week after getting caught up in a national multi-agency law enforcement operation aimed at busting illegal turtle traffickers.
Water samples taken near home meters in the affected area came back clear of bacteria, but traces continued to be found at a fire hydrant, the city said. The hydrant was disconnected from the system as testing continues.
The pain at the pump is colliding with California’s ambitious push away from fossil fuels, as refinery closures, supply disruptions and a deepening debate over reliance on imported oil and gas raise new questions about whether the state can keep gasoline affordable during the transition.
Running for his seat are foster and homeless youth education coordinator for the county Joanna Paun, Cotati Mayor Sylvia Lemus, pro motorcycle racer and dairy farmer Shelina Moreda, and Penngrove rancher John King.
As their public housing project in Marin City begins to undergo a massive renovation, the residents of Golden Gate Village posed questions to the new leader of the Marin Housing Authority and their incoming property managers from nonprofit developer Burbank Housing.
Golden Gate Village is a 30-acre 296-unit postwar public housing project that is about to undergo a multiyear transformation. Built in 1961, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and received federal recognition for design excellence in 1964.
A family whose Hayward-area home was obliterated in a PG&E pipeline explosion last year filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the company, a pair of construction contractors and Alameda County.
San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller, who was first elected in 2022 to represent District 3, is facing Joaquin Jimenez, the former mayor of Half Moon Bay who once supported him.
The Berkeley City Council recently voted to extend its contract with security company Flock Safety for the use of its automated license plate reader cameras, but decided against adding drones, security cameras, and investigative software to the city’s surveillance infrastructure.
The car is the centerpiece of Driving the Vote for Equality, a national tour pressing the case that the Equal Rights Amendment — ratified by 38 states and stuck for years on a procedural question about a deadline — has only one path left: back through Congress.
The airline will make trips starting Nov. 1 to Phoenix, Ariz.; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Boise, Idaho, according to a news release from the county this week.
The city of Oakland has launched its first free compost hub in partnership with a local nonprofit urban farming organization.
All of Marin County's open land, all those cows and grasses, and there is no nectar. Even the best conservation efforts don’t provide enough healthy forage for honey bees, according to a West Marin mead maker.
At Heidrun Meadery in Point Reyes Station, there is a concerted effort to cultivate honey bees through increasing biodiversity. Heidrun produces sparkling mead from a variety of honeys using traditional methods similar to those used to make French Champagne.