Mylar Balloon Triggers Wide-Spread Palo Alto Power Outage
A mylar balloon drifted into power lines in Palo Alto Friday afternoon, triggering a blackout of more than 4,500 customers between the Stanford campus and Mountain View.
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A mylar balloon drifted into power lines in Palo Alto Friday afternoon, triggering a blackout of more than 4,500 customers between the Stanford campus and Mountain View.
Spring training games for the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants are on hold, after Major League Baseball canceled the first week games through March 4 in the first public acknowledgement of the disruption caused by the lockout.
A man from Richmond and another from Oakland were killed in separate shootings in East Oakland in the last 24 hours, police said Friday.
A new bill in California would allow private citizens go after gun makers in the same way Texas lets them target abortion providers.
President Biden said Friday that the U.S. has reason to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the decision to invade Ukraine.
The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority has been awarded $3.4 million by the U.S. Federal Transit Administration to build a zero-emission, electric ferry to launch a new service between San Francisco's growing Treasure Island and Mission Bay neighborhoods.
A 34-year-old man was arrested this week after an argument on a Samtrans bus between two passengers escalated into a stabbing, San Mateo County authorities said.
A woman who stayed with a disabled vehicle while her male companion went for help was fatally struck by a Ram truck early Thursday morning on southbound Highway 101 in Sonoma County by a driver who fled the scene, according the California Highway Patrol.
Like so many people who've grown up in Contra Costa County, Karen Mitchoff just figured Kirker Pass was named after a rancher who settled near the well-traveled road winding through the hills between Concord and Pittsburg.
Students Rising Above Scholars are not just resilient and courageous. They are also often community leaders. And Patty Martinez is no exception, as she leads with change in her East Bay community.
East Bay residents looking for a good meal should check out the "Taste Tri-Valley" event that locals are hoping will provide a boost in business.
A Petaluma woman has been arrested twice over the span of two days on suspicion of driving under the influence, police said.
Bernard Curran, a former San Francisco senior city building inspector, has been charged with multiple counts of perjury and violations of local conflict of interest laws, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Friday.
An Oakland mother, still heartbroken by the the 2018 slaying of her 27-year-old son at a neighborhood bus stop, issued a plea Friday for anyone to come forward with information that may lead to the identity of the shooter.
A family that died of heat exhaustion during a grueling summer hike in Northern California sent a last, desperate text pleading for help, authorities said Thursday.
