Drought: Water Shortages Mean Smaller Pumpkins This Halloween
The drought in California is even impacting Halloween. Local pumpkin patches are going dry, and that means the Great Pumpkin may not be so great this year.
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The drought in California is even impacting Halloween. Local pumpkin patches are going dry, and that means the Great Pumpkin may not be so great this year.
The parents of a nine-year-old Fremont boy filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the local school district and one of its teachers claiming the teacher slapped the child during last April's STAR exams.
A collision involving a big-rig and another vehicle closed two right-hand lanes on southbound Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland. The accident was first reported at 4:41 a.m. near the Interstate Highway 980 juncture, CHP officials said.
The crash happened as Victor Radu-Radulescu, 57, of Fremont, was riding near the intersection of Mission and Stevenson boulevards at about 8:50 a.m., according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office.
The morning commute into San Francisco has gone smoothly so far Tuesday following the overnight closure of a major off-ramp from the Bay Bridge into the city.
A man who posed as a Fremont animal services officer burglarized the home of an elderly couple on Wednesday.
As soon as next week, Bay Bridge commuters who use the Folsom Street off-ramp exit will have to use an alternate route due to a partial closure.
Social media may be behind the sudden popularity of a park in the East Bay. Visitors are scaling Mission Peak in Fremont by the hundreds, and nearly all of them snapping a selfie with the totem at the top.
Police are asking the public for assistance in identifying two suspects involved in an August home invasion robbery in Fremont.
Observances are being held Thursday morning at the sites where Americans were killed by 9/11 terrorist attacks 13 years ago. Around the Bay Area, public transit and law enforcement joined in with their own memorials.
With more crimes being caught on surveillance cameras, a growing number of Bay Area police departments are asking homeowners with the cameras to voluntarily register them so they know what is out there.
Tesla Motors has selected Nevada for a massive, $5 billion factory that it will build to pump out batteries for a new generation of electric cars.
A group of deaf film students have a hit music video on their hands, as their version of Pharrell Williams' hit "Happy" has generated hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.
Billboards are a common sight along Bay Area freeways, but drivers along the Nimitz could be in for a surprise. Tesla is looking to install a billboard standing 40 feet tall and stretching 200 feet wide near its factory in Fremont.
Earlier this week, budget watchdogs wrote an open letter warning five states, including California, not to offer too many incentives to Tesla.
A Fremont elementary school teacher and Santa Cruz resident missing in Kings Canyon National Park after a solo backpacking trip over the weekend has been found dead, the National Park Service said Wednesday night.
PG&E crews have stopped the flow of gas from a gas line ruptured by a construction crew near a shopping center in Fremont that led to the evacuation of multiple businesses this afternoon, a PG&E spokeswoman said.
46-year-old Gregory Muck is described as an "experienced hiker" and failed to return home Sunday from a backpacking trip.
After complaints from parents, the Fremont Union School District said they won't be using a controversial sexual education textbook for ninth graders, unless the publisher makes revisions.
A controversial book intended for 9th grade sex-education at Fremont Unified Schools has been shelved by the superintendent, at least for now.
A 39-year-old Fremont man was arrested on suspicion of burglarizing cars in the Westridge area of Portola Valley on Thursday, a San Mateo County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said.
Police say two robbers used duct tape to tie up an unsuspecting grandmother who was babysitting before ransacking her family home.
An alleged gang member was stabbed in a Fremont high school parking lot Wednesday night but appears to have started the fight, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.
More than a 1,000 people have signed an online petition protesting the use of a controversial health education book in the Fremont Unified School District's 9th-grade curriculum.
Bart officials announced normal service has been restored to East Bay lines, the San Francisco International Airport line and the Millbrae line following 10-20 minute delays due to equipment problems.
