Rain arrived Friday morning in the Bay Area, the leading edge of a storm that has prompted a flood watch for the weekend. The storm is expected to bring 1 to 3 inches of rain to the region by Sunday ...

Ray Bandar's "Bone Palace" spanned thousands of skulls he stashed in the basement of his Miraloma Park home. The collection ...

Plaques for legendary blues artists were stolen from the Oakland Blues Walk of Fame this week, creating nearly $150,000 in damages.

A downtown Oakland office tower that is known as the East Bay city’s “original highrise” has been bought for an ultra-low ...

A downtown Oakland office tower that is known as the East Bay city’s “original highrise” has been bought for an ultra-low ...

A piece of Oakland's cultural history has been ripped out of the ground and now, a Bay Area nonprofit is asking for the ...

An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...

Newsom has threatened to dissolve OPD's partnership with CHP if it doesn't loosen its pursuit policy. The police chief ...

Crescent Trust had applied for a certificate of compliance asking the city to certify that Lot 18 was a separate parcel that ...

The Hughes Fire, reported shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday near Castaic Lake, prompted evacuations north of Los Angeles. The ...