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The family of a man who died in an officer-involved shooting at a barbershop in San Francisco back in March is expected to announce a lawsuit against the police department Thursday morning.

A grass fire sparked by a power line failure was threatening a major Chevron natural gas pipeline junction Thursday, leading 4,000 people to evacuate from their homes to a BART station parking lot. Police officers started knocking on doors of homes between Bay Point and Pittsburg Wednesday night, telling them to grab whatever they can and leave. Two evacuation points...

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose topped the list of the worst roads in large urban areas in the United States, according to a new report. A national transportation research group called TRIP released “Bumpy Roads Ahead: America’s Roughest Rides and Strategies to make our Roads Smoother” report Wednesday and named Bay Area cities with rough road conditions.

Gov. Jerry Brown expected to make major announcement on climate change efforts ahead of the Global Action Summit in San Francisco.

A Berkeley city council member has been accused of abuse of power after he allegedly tried to intimidate a police officer to get out of a traffic ticket. The city of Berkeley released an audio recordong of what it appeared to be council member Ben Bartlett’s traffic stop after he allegedly ran a red light at the intersection of Ashyb...

A woman has reported that she was sexually assaulted on the main campus of Stanford University some time overnight Sunday. The victim reported that “force was used” when she was assaulted at an undisclosed location at the university between Sunday evening and the early morning Monday, according to the Stanford University Department of Public Safety.

A commuter bus carrying 45 passengers ran off U.S. Highway 101 in San Mateo Thursday morning and crashed, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Local cannabis sellers in the Bay Area have rallied behind the little girl at the center of the viral #PermitPatty video. Companies and people in the community gathered at the Pergola at Lake Merritt in Oakland Saturday to raise money for 8-year-old Jordan Rodgers’ education fund after Alison Ettel called the police on Jordan for “illegally selling water without a...

A pit bull attacked a fire official who was responding to a house fire in Alameda County Saturday morning. Firefighters put out a fire and evacuated a home on Maubert Ave. in San Leandro. They discovered several dogs on the premises, most of them pit bulls, according to Alameda County spokesperson Aisha Knowles.

An armed man with a badge and a wide brim hat who’s wanted for robbing several banks across Southern California has come to the Bay Area, the FBI warned. Law enforcement officials are looking a tall and roughly 230-pound white man, believed to be 40-50 years old, who’s believed to have robbed banks in Cupertino, Danville and Elk...

In July of last year, nine women were transported between detention facilities in a hot, windowless van without adequate food and water, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

A woman with a dog hopped in and stole a Police Service Technician vehicle Thursday afternoon in Oakland and took a ride to San Francisco and back. A civilian police technician said he was assisting at an assault scene on the 2100 block of Myrtle St. when a woman with a dog approached his vehicle and asked him if she...

Drones light shows have wow-ed people during the Super Bowl half-time show and San Francisco Pride celebration and now it’s replacing the traditional fireworks show for the Fourth of July. The Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, just an hour away from San Francisco, has partnered with Intel and opted to use the company’s 500 “Shooting Star” drones to light...

Over a hundred people stood outside the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in San Francisco Friday morning and chanted “Pruitt is a tool of corporate rule.” Demonstrators showed up to voice their opposition against President Donald Trump’s appointed EPA Chief Scott Pruitt and the rolling back of several environmental regulations.

A man died Saturday morning after he jumped into a river to rescue a little boy at Sequoia National Park, according to park officials. A family went for a morning walk down to the river near the Sequoia entrance. That’s when a 5-year-old boy slipped into the river, prompting a 22-year-old man who was with the family to jump in...

Nyla, the 6-week old husky-retriever mix puppy stolen from a San Jose was found Wednesday in the Central California town of Ceres, the dog’s owner said.