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An East Bay nursing student who notified police of a November stabbing attack on a BART train and comforted the victim in his dying moments was commended for her actions by BART officials Thursday.
More than a million California homes are now protected under a new law that temporarily bans insurance companies from dropping customers in areas affected by recent wildfires, officials announced Wednesday.
Berkeley police are looking for a food delivery service worker who was caught on surveillance video delivering dinner, then turning around and taking all the packages in the apartment lobby with her as she left.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products - including menthol cigarettes - in the county's unincorporated areas.
A driver who left his vehicle after an early Wednesday morning crash on Interstate Highway 580 was fatally struck by another vehicle, shutting down lanes and creating a massive backup, authorities said.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to reject most of a county Civil Grand Jury report's criticisms of the way it handled the process of approving sweeping changes to the sheriff's controversial "Urban Shield" law enforcement training program.
The crew of the Alameda-based Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf made a dramatic stop of a drug smuggling fast boat in the waters of the Eastern Pacific last month, seizing more than 3,100 pound of suspected cocaine, officials said.
Police in Walnut Creek announced Monday that they were led to the suspect in a recent burglary at a restaurant because the culprit left his phone at the scene of the crime.
A humanitarian organization on Tuesday called on federal authorities to investigate an assault on a Richmond resident who is a Sikh last weekend as a hate crime.
The murder of two Fremont cousins who were killed walking home from a late night visit to a 7-Eleven in 1982 has been solved using the latest advances in DNA technology, authorities announced Tuesday.
Jorge Mena simply couldn't believe his eyes, so he took a two-mile jog to calm his excitement.
A prospective ordinance governing short-term rentals in unincorporated parts of Contra Costa County is scheduled to be discussed.
Two people were killed late Monday night when a wrong-way driver triggered a horrific crash on eastbound I-80 near the Appian Way exit, authorities said.
Two East Bay communities are looking at in-law or "granny" units as a way to help ease the housing squeeze.
Fire crews were able to extinguish a two-alarm fire at an apartment building in San Pablo on Monday morning, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman said.
