As holiday shoppers are packing their cars with presents and delivery drivers are leaving boxes by front doors, thieves are out in force waiting to rip consumers off and some are becoming more and more high tech.

As holiday shoppers are packing their cars with presents and delivery drivers are leaving boxes by front doors, thieves are out in force waiting to rip consumers off and some are becoming more and more high tech. Sonja Shin reports.

Rising global temperatures are worrying truffle hunters around in the Italian town of Alba, where the most prized specimens can fetch twice the price of gold. This particularly warm October, eight out of 10 white truffles unearthed by Carlo Olivero with his trusty 3-year-old dog Steel were dark, withered and dried out. “They are clearly signs of the temperatures,’’ Olivero...

Nutella fans, rejoice! The company that produces the popular hazelnut spread has announced Hotella Nutella, a one-weekend only pop-up hotel coming to Napa Valley in January.

A woman and a man were arrested Wednesday in connection with a recent string of thefts of catalytic converters in Berkeley, police said. More than 30 vehicles have been damaged in the series of catalytic converter thefts throughout Berkeley, which started in late July, according to police.

A three-alarm fire that damaged a roofing supply company in Pittsburg on Sunday afternoon originated in an adjacent homeless encampment, according to a fire spokesman.

Firefighters on Sunday knocked down a blaze that burned at a Pittsburg roofing business and sent a towering plume of black smoke into the air above Highway 4. Marianne Favro reports.

Starting Saturday, people with the 510 area code will have to work a little harder to get their calls through. That’s because on that day, in preparation for a new area code, people will have to dial 1 plus the area code plus the phone number of whomever they’re trying to reach, according to the California Public Utilities Commission.

It’s one thing to give a dollar to a homeless person, and it’s another to welcome them as guests into your home. But that’s exactly what one man in the East Bay is doing.

Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson is hosting the “Alameda County Emergency Preparedness Day” on Saturday to help community members be ready for disasters such as fires and earthquakes.

A 44-year-old Piedmont woman is recovering after surviving two violent attacks.

After having her purse robbed, in less than 24-hours a woman was then victim of a home invasion in Piedmont. Police and the woman believe the two incidents could be related. Jodi Hernandez reports.

The City of Piedmont is giving out information about – and gathering public input on – a prospective public safety camera program, and a meeting Tuesday is planned as a platform for information flowing in both directions.

Police are searching for three armed home invasion suspects who pushed their way into a Piedmont home last week.

Three pedestrians have been seriously injured after being struck by vehicles in two separate incidents, Berkeley police said Saturday.

A Lebanese American Oakland City Council candidate said today that his campaign signs have been vandalized with swastikas and other messages. Joseph Tanios, who is one of six candidates running for the District 4 seat being vacated by Annie Campbell-Washington, said in a news release, “Swastikas and other messages of hate have been painted on my campaign signs. It is disgusting.”

Marin County officials announced Wednesday they are joining other local governments in challenging a Federal Communications Commission order aimed at accelerating the implementation of the fifth generation of wireless service, known as 5G.

Airlines have grounded more than a thousand flights in the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia as Hurricane Florence continued to barrel toward the Atlantic coast, where it is predicted to linger over a swath of the Southeast through the weekend. According to the flight-tracking site FlightAware, more than 2,000 flights have been canceled between now and Saturday. Some of the region’s...

Sonoma County emergency officials on Wednesday tested their wireless emergency alert system to learn how it will perform during a real disaster. Senior Investigative Reporter Vicky Nguyen reports in a video that first aired on Sept. 12, 2018.

The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday created a new telephone area code for the western portions of Alameda and Contra Costa counties because it’s projected to run out of available 510 prefixes by the second quarter of 2019.