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A family is identifying the victims in a deadly police chase that happened in the East Bay. According to family members, Ryniqueka Dowell was killed when a man evading police crashed into her car Thursday in Rodeo. Dowell’s twin sons were also inside the car at the time of the...

Officers found the three victims at the scene, where one victim was pronounced dead and another died at the hospital.

Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. It is not every day that trash brings diverse groups of people together and motivates community action and policy change. In Pinole, California, a Thriving Earth Exchange community science project led to more than a trash audit. Community groups worked together to count and categorize trash in the local watershed, providing an understanding of the problem’s scale and source, allowing for prioritization of follow-up study locations and trash types (plastic single-use food packaging and tobacco waste) for the development of recommendations to City Council.

(KRON) — The Oakland Zoo mourned the loss of one of its elderly African elephants, Lisa, at age 46, after her battle with progressive arthritis. Lisa was humanely euthanized on Sunday. "We are heartbroken,” said Dr. Alex Herman, VP of Veterinary Services at Oakland Zoo. “Her disease progressed to a point where we didn't want […]

On the morning of Thursday, March 23, 2023, officials in Martinez reported a car wreck with injuries on Shell Avenue. The auto crash occurred shortly before 10:00 a.m. on Pacheco Boulevard and Shell Avenue in Martinez, according to the California Highway Patrol. Details on the Car Wreck on Shell Avenue...

UC Berkeley student Egbert Villegas was driving his girlfriend, Nelly Elahmadie, to a doctor’s appointment last November when the pair spied an SUV flipped over on the freeway in Oakland. They were on their way from Walnut Creek to Berkeley; the accident came into view right before the Caldecott...

Two men were killed and another man was injured in a shooting in Vallejo on Sunday night. Vallejo police responded to reports of a shooting on the 500-block of Tennessee Street at about 10:52 p.m. Officers found three victims each suffering from one gunshot wound, according to a press release from the Vallejo Police Department.

"Why Lower-Priced Homes in San Francisco Are Appreciating While Higher-Priced Homes Are Declining" The real estate market in San Francisco has been experiencing some interesting trends in recent years. While home values in the metropolitan area, which includes Oakland and Berkeley, have been declining since the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, the region's cheapest third of homes have stayed stubbornly high. On the other hand, prices for the most expensive third of homes have been dropping faster and more dramatically.

Spin, a San Francisco-based electric scooter company, launched in Richmond earlier this month, making it the third on-demand scooter rental now available in town. Spin joins Bird and Lime e-scooters in Richmond. Why it matters: Spin's bright orange rides can be found all over the city — including in frequently-neglected...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A Richmond man was shot and killed in Oakland overnight. A ShotSpotter activation went off around 3:00 a.m. in the 3300 block of 13th Avenue. Officers responded to the area where they found a Hispanic man suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. The man was pronounced...

The Niagara Movement Democratic Club (NMDC) celebrated their 50th Anniversary at Geoffrey’s Inner Circle on Saturday, March 18. The event raised funds for the newly created non-bipartisan Niagara Movement Foundation co-founded by lobbyist-author Virtual T. Murrell the Honorable Elihu Harris, former Oakland mayor, and founding members Sandra Simpson Fontaine, the Honorable Leo Bazile, Anita Williams, Geoffrey Pete and Robert L. Harris.

A number of California's most notorious killers will be moved from San Quentin State Prison.

Amanda Webb of San Francisco was 36 years old and pregnant with her first child when she found out she had stage-4 colorectal cancer. She shares her story of survival and what she's doing now to bring awareness to the issue. Her doctor, UCSF Hospital Oncologist Dr. Katherine Van Loon tells us scientists are trying to determine why colon cancer cases are rising in adults under 55 years old.

Marin native, Darrion Trammell and the San Diego State Aztecs are officially heading to the Final Four. Fifth-seeded San Diego State narrowly escaped a tough, sixth-seeded Creighton University team by just a point on Sunday to advance in the NCAA tournament. The Aztecs' last point came from Trammell, who put...

¡Hella Hungry! is a column about Bay Area foodmakers, exploring the region's culinary cultures through the mouth of a first-generation local. Jamaican beef patties are one of those foods you can only truly appreciate if you’ve ever lived outside of the Bay Area. Hefty enough to satiate your stomach, compact enough to grub on while walking to the bus stop and packing enough kick to light up your taste buds, these patties are a quintessentially Caribbean street food that West Coast cities generally lack.

OAKLAND -- The family that owns the popular Oakland barbeque restaurant Everett & Jones is angry after the Jack London Square spot was hit twice by thieves last week. Everett & Jones Barbecue has been a Bay Area institution for 50 years. The sisters who run it say they've never been targeted like this. First, a window near a side door was smashed just after 3 a.m. at the Broadway location on Monday, March 20. The thief kicked in the office door and used a power saw in an attempt to get to the larger safe, but was unsuccessful. The burglar made...

(KTXL) - An 11-year-old girl Fairfield girl died days after being hit by a suspected drunken driver, according to the Solano County Coroner.  Fairfield Police said the girl was on East Tabor Avenue, near Grange Middle School, around 8 a.m. Thursday when she was struck by an SUV.  First responders took the 11-year-old girl to […]

Berkeley City Councilwoman Susan Wengraf has organized a virtual town hall Tuesday night for anyone who is concerned about rising crime in the city. The event will take place on Zoom at 7 p.m. The town hall meeting will include a Q&A with Berkeley police, Wengraf said. Wengraf organized the...

(KRON) — The Alameda Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a 56-year-old missing man. Angel Ambriz was reported missing last Thursday, March 23, according to police. Since being reported missing, APD officers have attained video footage that shows Ambriz walking at the Marina Village Yacht Harbor on March 18 just before […]

One is still on the loose!