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With the brunt of an atmospheric river that rolled onshore early Sunday predicted to batter Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, residents of mountain communities like Boulder Creek spent the hours before the storm's arrival bracing for the wintry blast.
Thwarted by a federal court setback, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered his staff to use the legal arguments successfully used by Texas before the Supreme Court to defend its abortion ban to come up with a law that would prohibit ownership of assault weapons in California.
Anne Rice, the gothic novelist widely known for her bestselling novel "Interview With the Vampire," died late Saturday at the age of 80.
The city of Burlingame has a plan to allow business owners to turn temporary parklets into permanent parklets but it'll come with a price tag.
People lined up in San Francisco Saturday morning to rid themselves of unwanted guns in a buyback program meant to destroy weapons before they cause unintended tragedies.
Severe storms and powerful tornados moved through the central U.S. Friday night and caused catastrophic damage and many deaths across multiple states. The storms hit a candle factory in Kentucky, an Amazon facility in Illinois and a nursing home in Arkansas.
Richard Clayton, the husband of Contra Costa County supervisor Diane Burgis, died by suicide Saturday morning, the supervisor said.
Even amid the wave of San Francisco vehicle smash-and-grab robberies over the last year it was particularly stunning. Surveillance video shows a black car with tinted windows pulling up to a parklet at the Balboa Cafe, a man reaches over the barrier and snatches a woman's purse before racing off.
An atmospheric river bearing down on Northern California from the Gulf of Alaska Saturday will bring much needed rain for the parched hills and reservoirs of the Bay Area, but it's most potent punch will be in the Sierra where forecasters were warning of several feet of new snow.
A 3-alarm fire erupted inside a San Francisco warehouse early Saturday, but quick responding firefighters were able to contain and keep it from spreading to nearby buildings.
A pedestrian was hospitalized with major injuries in the wake of what police described as a hit and run collision on Monument Boulevard in Concord early Saturday morning.
While high prices and overbidding have become the norm in the Bay Area real estate market, a home that sold for $1 million above asking in San Francisco is raising eyebrows.
An hours-long police standoff with a suspected gunman in an Antioch neighborhood ended Friday evening when the suspect, believed to be a man in his 30s, was shot and killed by officers.
Government data shows consumer prices surged last month, up 6.8 percent in the past year. That has retail patrons feeling the pinch with the holiday shopping season in full swing.
A dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara County, as well as the detection of the county's first Omicron case, has health experts doubling down on health protocols, especially as the holidays approach.
