Contra Costa fire department names first female assistant chief
The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District named its first female assistant fire chief this week as part of a reorganization, district officials announced Wednesday.
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The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District named its first female assistant fire chief this week as part of a reorganization, district officials announced Wednesday.
Protesters took over People's Park in Berkeley Wednesday afternoon, bringing construction of a new student housing project to a halt for the day at least.
A person is expected to recover after he was stabbed on a BART train in the East Bay Wednesday night.
A nationwide ban on private big cat ownership passing in Congress is getting positive reception at the Oakland zoo, where staff received two rescue tigers just last month.
He's unofficially known as a "go-to" person if you need to know anything about disaster preparedness at home.
Police in Oakland are seeking several suspects and vehicles connected after stores at an East Oakland shopping center were burglarized earlier this week.
Three suspects were arrested in Oakland following a shooting in a Union City residential neighborhood Wednesday afternoon that left one man injured.
The Contra Costa District Attorney's office has filed a felony assault charge with two enhancements against a former Richmond police officer.
Truckers, longshore workers and others sued this week against a little-known Bay Area commission over its decision to allow the A's to build at Oakland's Charles P. Howard Terminal in hopes of stopping the billion-dollar Oakland A's ballpark project.
For one Oakland business, National Night Out was a chance to remember a restaurant owner who was killed in front of his 11-year-old son, last May.
A suspect wanted in the 1992 Alameda murder of Juliette Rivera eluded authorities and arrest for decades by assuming the identity of his brother and living for years as a transient, cold case investigators revealed Tuesday.
Police in Berkeley located a suspect that they had described at potentially armed and on the loose late Tuesday afternoon.
Of the 79,201 residents of Pleasanton, only two are known as the Fix-It Guys: 80-year-old Rick Levesque and 95-year-old Phil Wire.
The family of a pregnant teen shot and killed by police is shocked the City of Fremont is asking the court to throw out $10M judgment awarded on her behalf.
The coach for local youth football on Monday described the chaos that unfolded when a shooting injured three people during a game at Oakland Technical High Sunday afternoon.
