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Saying that it was the right project in the wrong place, Walnut Creek City Council members in the wee hours of Wednesday rejected plans for an Amy's Drive-Thru vegetarian restaurant.
The Oakland Unified School District board voted to not reduce the school district police department Wednesday evening despite a heated meeting and push back from the community.
It was the Oakland Police Commission who voted unanimously to fire chief Anne Kirkpatrick without cause and backed by Mayor Libby Schaaf. But Oakland City Councilman Noel Gallo on Wednesday said it is federal monitor Robert Warshaw who has to go.
Sheriff's deputies are looking for at least two suspects whose car rammed two patrol cars and other vehicles following a home burglary and chase.
Citing a stunning increase of speeding drivers on San Francisco Bay Area freeways, the California Highway Patrol revealed Wednesday that their officers had ticketed 1,704 drivers in 2019 for driving faster than 100 mph.
An Amtrak train struck a vehicle on the tracks Wednesday morning, officials said.
At least two people were transported for smoke inhalation injuries and seven others displaced following a fire at a home in Antioch early Wednesday morning.
Teachers in one East Bay school district say they're prepared to strike if they can't reach an agreement on a new contract. On Tuesday night, more than 400 teachers showed up at the San Ramon Valley Unified School Board meeting to protest.
Contra Costa County health officials on Tuesday confirmed the county's first local case of coronavirus. The infected person had no known travel history and no known contact with any other confirmed cases.
Measure J -- a 35-year half-cent sales tax to raise money for local roads, buses, rail, ferries and other transportation improvement projects in Contra Costa County -- appears to have fallen far short of the wo-thirds approval needed to pass, according to initial results.
An Alameda County ballot measure that would raise an estimated $150 million annually to expand access to early education and child care for all children in the county was ahead in the incomplete returns Tuesday but its ultimate fate may be decided in court.
Health officials all around the world are struggling to keep the Coronavirus contained. But there is one group of people that would pose an even tougher challenge if the virus should invade their ranks: the homeless.
McClymonds High students, force to temporarily relocate from their school because of the discovery of a dangerous chemical in the groundwater under their campus, have been reunited after spending nearly two weeks divided up between three other Oakland schools, officials said.
Police and CHP worked together Tuesday afternoon to arrest four suspects in Oakland who were allegedly spotted carjacking a vehicle, according to authorities.
A former Social Security Administration employee and her husband have pleaded guilty to a scheme in which payments intended for Social Security recipients were diverted into the couple's bank accounts, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
