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Officials with California's power grid operator said Thursday that they are more prepared for this weekend's heat wave than they were in mid-August, but a scorching end to the summer could require additional flex alerts in the coming weeks.
Police in Alameda are looking for a group of people responsible for brazen thefts involving thousands of dollars of retailers' merchandise, and have released surveillance images and video of some of the suspects.
A teacher in Los Gatos was arrested Thursday after two students reported uncomfortable Zoom interactions with him, leading to an investigation that discovered evidence of "a plethora of behavior indicative of a pedophile," according to authorities.
The Pac-12 has reached an agreement with a diagnostic testing company to implement up to daily COVID-19 testing for all close-contact sports across the conference.
Twitter has flagged tweets from President Donald Trump suggesting that mail-in voters potentially cast more than one ballot in the upcoming election, which is illegal.
The 37-year-old Major League Soccer veteran and the league's all-time leading scorer watched as the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play in a playoff game to protest social injustice.
Police in Vallejo on Thursday announced they are investigating two separate fatal shootings that happened since Wednesday night.
A man wanted on suspicion of firing at a Sacramento police sergeant nearly a month ago was shot and killed during a standoff with officers, authorities confirmed Thursday.
Bracing for a contentious election with no immediate results and possible "civil unrest," Facebook is enacting a host of measures to ensure its platform is not used to sow chaos and spread misinformation before, during and after the U.S. presidential election.
Despite having some of the most acreage burned and evacuees from the SCU Lightning Complex fires, Santa Clara County is one of the few Bay Area counties that has not been approved for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration that would provide federal assistance to residents.
The San Francisco Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Thursday it's providing additional information to combat foreign interference in the 2020 election.
The upcoming heat wave over the Labor Day weekend is expected to impact current fire-fighting efforts, increase fire risk and has already triggered a energy flex alert for Saturday through Monday.
Driving a car in Oakland or San Francisco appears to be a more daunting and expensive proposition than in virtually any major city in the U.S., according to a survey by personal finance website WalletHub.
Federal authorities said Thursday that they have charged 12 people and seized nearly $8 million in cash, jewels and precious metals after disrupting a criminal enterprise that dealt drugs and sold illegally harvested shark fins to buyers overseas.
A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his grandfather near Santa Cruz on Tuesday evening
