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With wildfires seemingly happening year round, fire prevention has become a top priority in Contra Costa County, where officials are proposing a line of fire breaks as a defensible barrier to protect some of the county's most vulnerable communities.
One person died Wednesday morning after their car veered off the Coast Highway north of Jenner and rolled several hundred feet down a steep hill, the California Highway Patrol said.
A pair of new digital billboards are set to be erected in San Jose on airport property along Highway 101 and 87, marking an end to a ban on new billboards in the city dating back to the 1980s.
Across the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday morning residents began enjoying a level of new freedom since the pandemic roared back to life last summer as statewide and local mandates requiring vaccinated individuals to wear COVID masks in most indoor settings were lifted.
An Oakland firefighter who was injured while battling a two-alarm blaze in a West Oakland residential building remained hospitalized Wednesday at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco.
A 500-pound bear that pounces on properties with a craving for food has a community at odds with wildlife officials who want it dead.
A 44-year-old man who allegedly filmed himself shooting a flare gun over San Mateo police headquarters and sent it to government agencies last month was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly shooting a flare gun at a passing police patrol car.
Firefighters and hazardous materials crews responded to a fire at an industrial gas supplier in Fremont Wednesday that shut down the surrounding area for several hours.
State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, introduced two bills this week designed to ease congestion on state Highway 37, which runs between Vallejo to Novato and traverses Solano, Sonoma, and Marin counties, and to protect it from sea-level rise.
A 21-year-old man was injured in a shooting in a Safeway grocery store parking lot on Market Street in San Francisco late Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) plans to shut down some light-rail tracks from Thursday through early March so crews can replace tracks that have reached the end of their use, according to the VTA.
A multi-million dollar transit project decades in the making is finally nearing completion, bringing San Francisco its very first bus rapid transit system.
Sausalito police cited the owner of a small sailboat that was illegally beached in Dunphy Park Saturday, which later sank and possibly created an environmental hazard.
California prosecutors sued an Oakland foundry Tuesday over it emitting a reproductive toxicant and carcinogen made infamous by the movie "Erin Brockovich."
In a special election, residents in San Francisco voted overwhelmingly to recall three school board members onTuesday.
