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A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
Improving weather helped firefighters stop the spread of a Sierra Nevada wildfire that forced evacuation of several hundred people from their homes and injured 13 firefighters and a civilian.
A San Francisco high school student who saw a great need in her Chinatown community has launched a tutoring center to help struggling students.
California's gas tax will go up just as people hit the road for the holiday weekend. There's a new effort in Sacramento to try to lower prices.
On the day notorious Hells Angel leader Sonny Barger passed away, KPIX 5 anchorJuliette Goodrich shared a personal story about an encounter her family had with Barger when she was just an infant.
Police in San Francisco released photos and video of a suspect in a May 28 robbery in a plea to the public to help identify him.
The Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 8-6 Thursday night.
Crews in Vallejo have controlled a three-alarm fire burning at a commercial structure early Thursday evening, according to fire officials.
After taking her constitutional and judicial oaths, Ketanji Brown Jackson became the 116th Supreme Court Justice and the first Black woman to sit on that bench.
A San Francisco high school student who saw a great need in her Chinatown community has launched a tutoring center to help struggling students. Betty Yu reports. (6-30-22)
The A's cleared a big hurdle in their effort to build a new ballpark at Howard Terminal but not everyone is pleased. Katie Nielsen reports. (6-30-22)
California's gas tax will go up just as people hit the road for the holiday weekend. There's a new effort in Sacramento right now to try to lower prices. Shawn Chitnis reports. (6-30-22)
Here's the latest from the KPIX newsroom. (6-30-22)
Vallejo firefighters quickly brought a three-alarm commercial structure fire under control Thursday evening. (6-30-22)
As the nation is seeing a rise in violent crime, a CBS News investigation found that homicides are going unsolved at a historic pace. CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Jim Axelrod discusses FBI statistics showing that the murder clearance rate has fallen to its lowest point in more than half a century
CBS News Bay Area's Anne Makovec talks to USF professor James Taylor about the Supreme Court rulings on the Environmental Protection Agency and immigration
KPIX 5's Anne Makovec talks to a private investigator Jennifer Marshall how she got involved in the field, and how she came on board hosting the show.
On this week's Weather Extra, the last two winters were both under the influence of La Nina. What are the chances we’ll go into a ‘Triple Dip?’ First Alert Meteorologist Darren Peck says chances are likely, based on the early indication for this fall and early winter.
Dr. Kyan Younes, neurologist with Stanford Health Care, discusses the symptoms of and treatments for Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia
CBS News Bay Area anchor Len Kiese talks to political science adjunct professor Donna Crane with San Jose State University about how women in California and other pro-abortion rights states could be impacted by the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade
CBS News Bay Area's Anne Makovec asks Dr. Anne Liu, infectious disease physician at Stanford Health Care, about the symptoms of monkeypox, and how this outbreak differs from previous outbreaks
A San Francisco high school student who saw a great need in her Chinatown community has launched a tutoring center to help struggling students.
Police in San Francisco released photos and video of a suspect in a May 28 robbery in a plea to the public to help identify him.
Authorities are investigating a collision between two vessels in San Francisco Bay off of Angel Island Thursday afternoon that threw one person into the water who later died
Long before the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011, San Francisco was once a major hub for LGBTQ servicemembers.
Bay Area volunteers are banding together to offer resources for women travelling to California from out of state to get an abortion, all while staying under the radar with a coded message.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
On the day notorious Hells Angel leader Sonny Barger passed away, KPIX 5 anchorJuliette Goodrich shared a personal story about an encounter her family had with Barger when she was just an infant.
Crews in Vallejo have controlled a three-alarm fire burning at a commercial structure early Thursday evening, according to fire officials.
Two Oakland residents have been arrested on suspicion of a shooting earlier this month, according to San Leandro police.
The owner of a convenience store in East Oakland, along with his father, were found guilty on multiple counts for committing fraud involving the government's Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, federal prosecutors said.
San Jose Police announced Thursday the arrest of four suspects connected to a series of violent armed robberies, including one incident where a 15-month-old baby was held at gunpoint.
Santa Cruz County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county's first probable case of monkeypox has been identified in a local resident.
A 77-year-old San Jose woman is facing arson and homicide charges after police said she set a house fire that killed her husband last week.
Officers arrested four teenagers in San Jose Sunday morning who held up a driver at gunpoint and led a high speed chase before being caught, three who were also arrested in March on the same charges, police said.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved several measures that they say will create more affordable housing for residents. The supervisors also adopted a resolution declaring the county's commitment to ending homelessness for youth and young adults over the next five years.
State Highway 29 in the area of St. Helena reopened Thursday afternoon after a hazardous materials spill caused an hours-long closure, according to the California Highway Patrol.
For the first time since the pandemic shutdown in 2019, the Marin County Fair will be in-person from Thursday through Monday, July 4 at the fairgrounds in San Rafael.
A Sonoma County civil grand jury has determined that far more oversight is needed for affordable housing in the county after an expose in a newspaper and complaints from residents prompted the investigation.
Police in Dixon in northern Solano County are investigating a report of a dead body discovered Tuesday when a garbage truck deposited its load at a trash dump in neighboring Yolo County.
In mid-June, detectives from the Santa Rosa Police Department's Property Crimes Team received information about an individual that was in possession of a large quantities of illegal and dangerous fireworks.
The decades-long struggle for equal rights for the gay community included an unlikely transformation within a local Catholic church that is now thriving in San Francisco's Castro District.
The Petaluma Police Department has introduced a new Safe Space program along with a campaign to promote Pride in the city.
Uhuru Furniture and Collectables' mission has been serving the Grand Lake community in Oakland for 33 years. The resale furniture store aims to put power in the hands of the community, furnishing change for certain communities.
The neighborhood is a symbol of gay freedom known around the world, but like the city of San Francisco, the Castro is changing. Again.
San Francisco isn't shy about celebrating Pride, but when they were looking for a new transit director, they wanted someone who could usher in an entirely new transportation culture for the City. But the man they chose also broke barriers in the social culture, as well.
Long before the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011, San Francisco was once a major hub for LGBTQ servicemembers.
A Danville family put up a rainbow pride flag on their home to celebrate Pride Month, but the flag has been ripped down and stolen two times.
Just a mention of his beginnings in dance and it doesn't take long for a smile to spread across Roberto Vega Ortiz's face.
The decades-long struggle for equal rights for the gay community included an unlikely transformation within a local Catholic church that is now thriving in San Francisco's Castro District.
The journey to find her authentic self brought Aishani Majumdar halfway around the world as an immigrant from India who wanted to live in a place where she could find love and acknowledge her queer identity.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
The Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 8-6 Thursday night.
PAC-12 powerhouses in University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles have announced they leaving the conference to join the Big Ten, officials confirmed Thursday.
Eric Haase hit a two-run homer to break a 1-all tie in the sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers held on to beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Wednesday.
Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge homered to fuel New York's major league-best 24th comeback victory, bailing out Jameson Taillon in a 5-3 win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
After taking her constitutional and judicial oaths, Ketanji Brown Jackson became the 116th Supreme Court Justice and the first Black woman to sit on that bench.
Looking to avoid power blackouts, California may turn to the one energy source it's otherwise desperate to get rid of: fossil fuels.
"On behalf of all of the members of the court, I am pleased to welcome Justice Jackson to the court and to our common calling," Chief Justice John Roberts said.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the federal Environmental Protection Agency does not have broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act, undermining the fight against climate change.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
Improving weather helped firefighters stop the spread of a Sierra Nevada wildfire that forced evacuation of several hundred people from their homes and injured 13 firefighters and a civilian.
A San Francisco high school student who saw a great need in her Chinatown community has launched a tutoring center to help struggling students.
California's gas tax will go up just as people hit the road for the holiday weekend. There's a new effort in Sacramento to try to lower prices.
On the day notorious Hells Angel leader Sonny Barger passed away, KPIX 5 anchorJuliette Goodrich shared a personal story about an encounter her family had with Barger when she was just an infant.
The California state Assembly on Thursday approved a controversial bill allowing Oakland and San Francisco, along with Los Angeles, to set up places where opioid users could legally inject drugs in supervised settings.
California will become the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.
Beginning this fall high schools in the nation's most populous state can't start before 8:30 a.m. and middle schools can't start before 8 a.m. under a 2019 first-in-the-nation law forbidding earlier start times.
Santa Cruz County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county's first probable case of monkeypox has been identified in a local resident.
County officials said Wednesday that West Nile virus was detected in Santa Clara County for the first time this year.
On the day notorious Hells Angel leader Sonny Barger passed away, KPIX 5 anchorJuliette Goodrich shared a personal story about an encounter her family had with Barger when she was just an infant.
Police in San Francisco released photos and video of a suspect in a May 28 robbery in a plea to the public to help identify him.
Two Oakland residents have been arrested on suspicion of a shooting earlier this month, according to San Leandro police.
The owner of a convenience store in East Oakland, along with his father, were found guilty on multiple counts for committing fraud involving the government's Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, federal prosecutors said.
San Jose Police announced Thursday the arrest of four suspects connected to a series of violent armed robberies, including one incident where a 15-month-old baby was held at gunpoint.
Imagine getting a bunch of tax documents telling you and the IRS about a large sum of money you made when, in fact, you never received a penny of it.
Many in the Bay Area want their Ukrainian relatives to find safe haven here but the obstacles they're facing are formidable.
The state of emergency that San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared for the Tenderloin last December has a lot of people talking but no one is paying closer attention than the people who live there.
One of the hottest real estate markets is not in the Bay Area. In fact, it's not even in our world. It's at your fingertips in an alternate reality known as the metaverse.
A group of Bay Area scientists have unraveled some surprising secrets about post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD which one day could lead to better therapies and treatments.
Long before the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011, San Francisco was once a major hub for LGBTQ servicemembers.
A Danville family put up a rainbow pride flag on their home to celebrate Pride Month, but the flag has been ripped down and stolen two times.
Just a mention of his beginnings in dance and it doesn't take long for a smile to spread across Roberto Vega Ortiz's face.
The decades-long struggle for equal rights for the gay community included an unlikely transformation within a local Catholic church that is now thriving in San Francisco's Castro District.
The journey to find her authentic self brought Aishani Majumdar halfway around the world as an immigrant from India who wanted to live in a place where she could find love and acknowledge her queer identity.
Alternative-rock heroes Pearl Jam offered up an epic set of fan favorites and classic-rock covers at the Oakland Arena Thursday.
Kinetic Aussie punk outfit Amyl & the Sniffers played the second of two packed, sold-out shows at the Great American Music Hall Saturday night.
A fox got its head stuck in a steel pipe at a construction site near Oracle Park in San Francisco and fire crews used a saw to get the terrified creature safely freed.
British singer Dua Lipa brought her "Future Nostalgia Tour" to the SAP Center in San Jose Sunday night, playing songs from that now two-year-old album along with other hits.
Legendary metal band Judas Priest brought their long-delayed 50th anniversary tour to the Fox in Oakland Saturday for an incendiary sold-out show featuring support from Queensrÿche.
A Pacifica woman provides a safe place to gather in person to grieve and share community in the pandemic.
A two-time breast cancer survivor who takes cancer support to the next level is this week's Bay Area Jefferson Award winner.
In the Ingleside, a Bay Area pastor inspires his community with a nationally lauded black history collage.
More than 70 percent of African Americans do not have a will or other estate planning document, according to a Caring.com 2022 survey. An Oakland attorney is changing that.
When Dr. Jason Wong hands his patients a prescription, they often go to a unique pharmacy on the Peninsula where food is medicine.
It's not uncommon for Students Rising Above Scholars to have close knit, loving families. Ronvel Sharper is no exception.
This week's Students Rising Above scholar knows how devastating it can be when someone you love is struggling with their mental health and the importance of also taking care of yourself.
All human beings have experienced trauma at some point in their lives, but not everyone asked themselves to take a step back, and shift focus to others, and what they may be going through.
A gifted Bay Area student who faced cancer as a teenager and won has taken on a new role in the fight against the devastating disease.
For more than 20 years, KPIX 5 has been telling the stories of Students Rising Above scholars. Now, SRA scholar Brenda Vasquez is leaning into her own story-telling skills as she travels the world.