Flaring At Richmond Chevron Refinery Produces Black Smoke Over East Bay
Black smoke hanging over the East Bay Wednesday evening is the result of flaring in a unit at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, officials said.
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Black smoke hanging over the East Bay Wednesday evening is the result of flaring in a unit at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, officials said.
A newly passed ordinance in Berkeley is moving the city toward eliminating gender-specific language from the municipal code.
Following a 4.3-magnitude earthquake and a 3.5 aftershock in Contra Costa County on Tuesday, 50 technical partners of the U.S. Geological Survey's ShakeAlert early earthquake warning system were successfully notified, according to a coordinator with the program.
An Oakland man was sentenced Wednesday to 19 years in state prison for fatally shooting a Vallejo man on the Ohlone Greenway in Albany in broad daylight last year.
By a unanimous city council vote, Berkeley has become the first city in the nation to ban the use of natural gas in new low-rise residential buildings.
The man suspected of stabbing Nia Wilson to death on a BART platform in Oakland has been found mentally competent by a judge to stand trial Wednesday.
One person is dead after a shooting in Richmond late Tuesday night, police said.
BART riders on the Dublin-Pleasanton line experienced major delays Wednesday morning after multiple trains did not show up.
Three suspects have been arrested in a brazen 2016 Vallejo pawnshop robbery that was captured on surveillance cameras as they opened fire, killing the owner and his dog and critically wounding a clerk who was in a wheelchair.
One person has been arrested following a carjacking in San Francisco, which led to a police chase and crash across the Bay in Oakland early Wednesday morning.
A woman was struck and killed on eastbound Interstate Highway 580 in Richmond early Wednesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Hundreds of irate protesters packed a Fremont City Council meeting Tuesday night, voicing their opposition to plans to build a homeless navigation center on either city hall property or on a vacant lot off Decoto Blvd.
A brush fire burning at the junction of state Highway 4 and Interstate 680 in Contra Costa County spread to a nearby storage facility Tuesday afternoon.
An earthquake, measuring a magnitude 4.3, rumbled through the San Ramon area Monday afternoon, shaking up local residents but causing no major injuries or damage.
An Oakland police officer testified Tuesday that he shut down an illegal rave party at the Ghost Ship warehouse about 21 months before a fire during an illegal music concert at the Oakland facility killed 36 people.
