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The Walnut Creek City Council on Tuesday unanimously decided to move forward with Toyota Walnut Creek to explore rezoning six acres north of Ygnacio Valley Boulevard into mixed-use buildings with multiple floors of housing or hotel rooms over auto facilities.
Thieves stole $160,000 in rare bicycles from a Morgan Hill bicycle shop Sunday and police requested the public's help in finding the suspects.
Police in San Mateo are urging car owners to be aware of thieves amid a spike in the number of catalytic converter thefts.
On Wednesday, Joby Aviation, a Santa Cruz-based startup that has kept its electric flying taxi secretive for years, secured venture capital funding to the tune of $590 million, largely led by Toyota.
The state of California is taking aim at GM, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan and other automakers that are aligning with the Trump administration in its battle over emissions rules.
A woman and a man were arrested Wednesday in connection with a recent string of thefts of catalytic converters in Berkeley, police said.
Berkeley police are warning residents about a recent increase in thefts of catalytic converters.
Toyota is recalling 1.7 million vehicles in North America to replace potentially deadly Takata front passenger air bag inflators.
Toyota is recalling nearly 188,000 pickup trucks, SUVs and cars worldwide because the air bags may not inflate in a crash.
Toyota is recalling more than 1 million of its hybrid vehicles worldwide over a potential fire risk.
A civil jury in Texas last week found "clear and convincing evidence" of "gross negligence" by Toyota, saying the company failed to warn consumers that front seats can collapse backwards in a collision.
Problems for Toyota are piling up as new complaints roll in about the Prius, one of their most popular models.
Toyota is recalling about 645,000 vehicles worldwide to fix an electrical problem that could stop air bags from inflating in a crash.
BR heads to Sonoma for the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series to meet two African-American drivers who are making drag racing history.
Toyota is recalling about 250,000 small pickup trucks mainly in North America because the rear wheels have the potential to lock up, causing drivers to lose control.
President-elect Donald Trump has trained his sights on Toyota in his latest effort to badger a company into building its products in the U.S. rather than Mexico.
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 834,000 Toyota Sienna minivans in North America because the sliding doors could open while the vehicle is moving.
Toyota's much ballyhooed plug-in hybrid Prius Prime is being pushed back by several months, with the new sales date set for late this year or early next year.
Toyota's new zero-emission, hydrogen-fueled automobile got a lot of attention at a demo Thursday at City Hall and KPIX 5's John Ramos took it for a spin.
Toyota is investing in Uber, making it the latest car company to put money in a ride-hailing app.
Toyota is recalling more than 1.1 million small SUVs in the U.S. because the seat belts might fail in a crash.
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda said Friday the company will start operating from January 2016, with 200 employees at a Silicon Valley facility near Stanford University.
The 2016 Prius is more sculpted and sportier looking than the current version as Toyota tries to move the car from appealing mainly to environmentalists to more of a mainstream vehicle.
Toyota is investing $50 million with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in hopes of gaining an edge in an accelerating race to phase out human drivers.
Honda has added 4.5 million vehicles in countries outside the U.S. to the growing list of cars and trucks recalled for Takata air bags that could explode with too much force and spew shrapnel at drivers and passengers.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
Improving weather helped firefighters stop the spread of a Sierra Nevada wildfire that forced evacuation of several hundred people from their homes and injured 13 firefighters and a civilian.
A San Francisco high school student who saw a great need in her Chinatown community has launched a tutoring center to help struggling students.
California's gas tax will go up just as people hit the road for the holiday weekend. There's a new effort in Sacramento to try to lower prices.
On the day notorious Hells Angel leader Sonny Barger passed away, KPIX 5 anchorJuliette Goodrich shared a personal story about an encounter her family had with Barger when she was just an infant.
Police in San Francisco released photos and video of a suspect in a May 28 robbery in a plea to the public to help identify him.
The Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 8-6 Thursday night.
Crews in Vallejo have controlled a three-alarm fire burning at a commercial structure early Thursday evening, according to fire officials.
After taking her constitutional and judicial oaths, Ketanji Brown Jackson became the 116th Supreme Court Justice and the first Black woman to sit on that bench.
Authorities are investigating a collision between two vessels in San Francisco Bay off of Angel Island Thursday afternoon that threw one person into the water who later died
Long before the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011, San Francisco was once a major hub for LGBTQ servicemembers.
PAC-12 powerhouses in University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles have announced they leaving the conference to join the Big Ten, officials confirmed Thursday.
Looking to avoid power blackouts, California may turn to the one energy source it's otherwise desperate to get rid of: fossil fuels.
"On behalf of all of the members of the court, I am pleased to welcome Justice Jackson to the court and to our common calling," Chief Justice John Roberts said.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the federal Environmental Protection Agency does not have broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act, undermining the fight against climate change.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
Improving weather helped firefighters stop the spread of a Sierra Nevada wildfire that forced evacuation of several hundred people from their homes and injured 13 firefighters and a civilian.
A San Francisco high school student who saw a great need in her Chinatown community has launched a tutoring center to help struggling students.
California's gas tax will go up just as people hit the road for the holiday weekend. There's a new effort in Sacramento to try to lower prices.
On the day notorious Hells Angel leader Sonny Barger passed away, KPIX 5 anchorJuliette Goodrich shared a personal story about an encounter her family had with Barger when she was just an infant.
A San Francisco high school student who saw a great need in her Chinatown community has launched a tutoring center to help struggling students.
Police in San Francisco released photos and video of a suspect in a May 28 robbery in a plea to the public to help identify him.
Authorities are investigating a collision between two vessels in San Francisco Bay off of Angel Island Thursday afternoon that threw one person into the water who later died
Long before the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011, San Francisco was once a major hub for LGBTQ servicemembers.
Bay Area volunteers are banding together to offer resources for women travelling to California from out of state to get an abortion, all while staying under the radar with a coded message.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
On the day notorious Hells Angel leader Sonny Barger passed away, KPIX 5 anchorJuliette Goodrich shared a personal story about an encounter her family had with Barger when she was just an infant.
Crews in Vallejo have controlled a three-alarm fire burning at a commercial structure early Thursday evening, according to fire officials.
Two Oakland residents have been arrested on suspicion of a shooting earlier this month, according to San Leandro police.
The owner of a convenience store in East Oakland, along with his father, were found guilty on multiple counts for committing fraud involving the government's Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, federal prosecutors said.
San Jose Police announced Thursday the arrest of four suspects connected to a series of violent armed robberies, including one incident where a 15-month-old baby was held at gunpoint.
Santa Cruz County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county's first probable case of monkeypox has been identified in a local resident.
A 77-year-old San Jose woman is facing arson and homicide charges after police said she set a house fire that killed her husband last week.
Officers arrested four teenagers in San Jose Sunday morning who held up a driver at gunpoint and led a high speed chase before being caught, three who were also arrested in March on the same charges, police said.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved several measures that they say will create more affordable housing for residents. The supervisors also adopted a resolution declaring the county's commitment to ending homelessness for youth and young adults over the next five years.
State Highway 29 in the area of St. Helena reopened Thursday afternoon after a hazardous materials spill caused an hours-long closure, according to the California Highway Patrol.
For the first time since the pandemic shutdown in 2019, the Marin County Fair will be in-person from Thursday through Monday, July 4 at the fairgrounds in San Rafael.
A Sonoma County civil grand jury has determined that far more oversight is needed for affordable housing in the county after an expose in a newspaper and complaints from residents prompted the investigation.
Police in Dixon in northern Solano County are investigating a report of a dead body discovered Tuesday when a garbage truck deposited its load at a trash dump in neighboring Yolo County.
In mid-June, detectives from the Santa Rosa Police Department's Property Crimes Team received information about an individual that was in possession of a large quantities of illegal and dangerous fireworks.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
The Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 8-6 Thursday night.
PAC-12 powerhouses in University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles have announced they leaving the conference to join the Big Ten, officials confirmed Thursday.
Eric Haase hit a two-run homer to break a 1-all tie in the sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers held on to beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Wednesday.
Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge homered to fuel New York's major league-best 24th comeback victory, bailing out Jameson Taillon in a 5-3 win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.
On the day notorious Hells Angel leader Sonny Barger passed away, KPIX 5 anchorJuliette Goodrich shared a personal story about an encounter her family had with Barger when she was just an infant.
Police in San Francisco released photos and video of a suspect in a May 28 robbery in a plea to the public to help identify him.
Two Oakland residents have been arrested on suspicion of a shooting earlier this month, according to San Leandro police.
The owner of a convenience store in East Oakland, along with his father, were found guilty on multiple counts for committing fraud involving the government's Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, federal prosecutors said.
San Jose Police announced Thursday the arrest of four suspects connected to a series of violent armed robberies, including one incident where a 15-month-old baby was held at gunpoint.
When President Joe Biden applauded a decision by Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. to build a $20 billion semiconductor operation on "1,000 empty acres of land" in Ohio, it didn't sit well with Tressie Corsi.
Modern technology makes the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade more far-reaching than you may think.
Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium -- visible to the naked eye -- in a Caribbean mangrove swamp.
The fate of Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani is now in the hands of a jury that will weigh charges he joined Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes in an elaborate fraud that jarred Silicon Valley.
A Black former Tesla worker who said he was harassed and faced with "daily racist epithets," including the "N-word," while working at the company's Fremont plant has rejected a substantially reduced award of $15 million in his lawsuit.
The California state Assembly on Thursday approved a controversial bill allowing Oakland and San Francisco, along with Los Angeles, to set up places where opioid users could legally inject drugs in supervised settings.
California will become the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.
Beginning this fall high schools in the nation's most populous state can't start before 8:30 a.m. and middle schools can't start before 8 a.m. under a 2019 first-in-the-nation law forbidding earlier start times.
Santa Cruz County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county's first probable case of monkeypox has been identified in a local resident.
County officials said Wednesday that West Nile virus was detected in Santa Clara County for the first time this year.
A California agency on Thursday has cleared the way for the Oakland Athletics to continue planning a $12 billion waterfront ballpark project.
After taking her constitutional and judicial oaths, Ketanji Brown Jackson became the 116th Supreme Court Justice and the first Black woman to sit on that bench.
Looking to avoid power blackouts, California may turn to the one energy source it's otherwise desperate to get rid of: fossil fuels.
"On behalf of all of the members of the court, I am pleased to welcome Justice Jackson to the court and to our common calling," Chief Justice John Roberts said.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the federal Environmental Protection Agency does not have broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act, undermining the fight against climate change.
Long before the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2011, San Francisco was once a major hub for LGBTQ servicemembers.
A Danville family put up a rainbow pride flag on their home to celebrate Pride Month, but the flag has been ripped down and stolen two times.
Just a mention of his beginnings in dance and it doesn't take long for a smile to spread across Roberto Vega Ortiz's face.
The decades-long struggle for equal rights for the gay community included an unlikely transformation within a local Catholic church that is now thriving in San Francisco's Castro District.
The journey to find her authentic self brought Aishani Majumdar halfway around the world as an immigrant from India who wanted to live in a place where she could find love and acknowledge her queer identity.
For the first time since the pandemic shutdown in 2019, the Marin County Fair will be in-person from Thursday through Monday, July 4 at the fairgrounds in San Rafael.
After a two-year pandemic delay, the highly anticipated return of the Mosswood Meltdown this weekend brings an array of local and national punk acts to Oakland including Bikini Kill, Kim Gordon, the Dirtbombs and more.
One of the heirs to Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti's musical legacy, Femi Kuti brings his large and colorful Positive Force ensemble to the Bay Area for two shows.
Just a mention of his beginnings in dance and it doesn't take long for a smile to spread across Roberto Vega Ortiz's face.
R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday on federal sex trafficking charges during a court hearing in New York.
Imagine getting a bunch of tax documents telling you and the IRS about a large sum of money you made when, in fact, you never received a penny of it.
Many in the Bay Area want their Ukrainian relatives to find safe haven here but the obstacles they're facing are formidable.
The state of emergency that San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared for the Tenderloin last December has a lot of people talking but no one is paying closer attention than the people who live there.
One of the hottest real estate markets is not in the Bay Area. In fact, it's not even in our world. It's at your fingertips in an alternate reality known as the metaverse.
A group of Bay Area scientists have unraveled some surprising secrets about post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD which one day could lead to better therapies and treatments.
A San Francisco high school student who saw a great need in her Chinatown community has launched a tutoring center to help struggling students. Betty Yu reports. (6-30-22)
The A's cleared a big hurdle in their effort to build a new ballpark at Howard Terminal but not everyone is pleased. Katie Nielsen reports. (6-30-22)
California's gas tax will go up just as people hit the road for the holiday weekend. There's a new effort in Sacramento right now to try to lower prices. Shawn Chitnis reports. (6-30-22)
Here's the latest from the KPIX newsroom. (6-30-22)
Vallejo firefighters quickly brought a three-alarm commercial structure fire under control Thursday evening. (6-30-22)
A Pacifica woman provides a safe place to gather in person to grieve and share community in the pandemic.
A two-time breast cancer survivor who takes cancer support to the next level is this week's Bay Area Jefferson Award winner.
In the Ingleside, a Bay Area pastor inspires his community with a nationally lauded black history collage.
More than 70 percent of African Americans do not have a will or other estate planning document, according to a Caring.com 2022 survey. An Oakland attorney is changing that.
When Dr. Jason Wong hands his patients a prescription, they often go to a unique pharmacy on the Peninsula where food is medicine.
It's not uncommon for Students Rising Above Scholars to have close knit, loving families. Ronvel Sharper is no exception.
This week's Students Rising Above scholar knows how devastating it can be when someone you love is struggling with their mental health and the importance of also taking care of yourself.
All human beings have experienced trauma at some point in their lives, but not everyone asked themselves to take a step back, and shift focus to others, and what they may be going through.
A gifted Bay Area student who faced cancer as a teenager and won has taken on a new role in the fight against the devastating disease.
For more than 20 years, KPIX 5 has been telling the stories of Students Rising Above scholars. Now, SRA scholar Brenda Vasquez is leaning into her own story-telling skills as she travels the world.