Bay Area day laborers face few options amid soaring temperatures
People throughout the Bay Area are trying to find ways to avoid the heat by staying in air-conditioned spaces, but some don't have that option.
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People throughout the Bay Area are trying to find ways to avoid the heat by staying in air-conditioned spaces, but some don't have that option.
A late-night, two-alarm fire roared through an Oakland hills home Thursday, but was prevented from spreading into the tinder-dry hills by the quick response from firefighters.
A looming, prolonged heat wave descending on the Bay Area is keeping inland temperatures pretty warm at night with overnight lows hovering in the 70s.
Open space parks in Walnut Creek are closed through the Labor Day weekend, as the region braces for several days of extreme heat.
An East Bay mother and son are teachers by day, but outside the classroom, they team up to serve those in need in downtown Hayward.
Alameda County has agreed to ban rubber bullets, bean bags and other less-lethal munitions for crowd control as part of a settlement with two protesters.
A driver was arrested after allegedly stealing an Oakland Police Department SUV while an officer was responding to a call in the city's downtown early Thursday morning.
An official with the environmental group Save Mount Diablo recently made a startling discovery on the mountain: a third known population of the critically endangered Mount Diablo buckwheat, also known by scientists as Eriogonum truncatum.
Laboring will be the optimum word for the upcoming holiday weekend as soaring triple-digit temperatures create challenging conditions for residents, firefighters battling wildfires and air conditioning units powered by the state's overtaxed power grid.
An East Bay state legislator's bill protecting reproductive digital information handled by companies headquartered in California passed the Legislature on Wednesday and awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature.
Semiautomatic firearms, along with drugs and cash, were seized after police said they busted another illegal casino in East Oakland.
Police in Oakland on Wednesday asked for the public's help identifying a vehicle connected to last Friday's tragic triple homicide on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Two Asian-owned businesses run by the same family were ransacked in Oakland early Wednesday morning, leaving one of the proprietors feeling helpless.
At Lake Merritt, a natural phenomenon has people stopping, staring, and smelling.
A dome of high pressure began settling over the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday, turning up the heat to sweltering triple digit temperatures through the Labor Day weekend.
