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One person died and six others were wounded in a shooting on Lakeshore Avenue alongside Lake Merritt in Oakland on Saturday evening, police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A grass fire raced up a hillside in a residential area of Vallejo on Tuesday and damaged eight homes before an army of firefighters - with the help of a Cal Fire aircraft - got it under control. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California will receive $929 million in grant funding toward its high-speed rail project - funding that former President Donald Trump had previously canceled in 2019 - under a deal announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom's office late Thursday night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A federal judge in California overturned the state's decades-old ban on assault weapons Friday, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment - a decision that was promptly blasted by Gov. Gavin Newsom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A longtime Bay Area anchor with KTVU is "taking time away from the desk to focus on his health," KTVU officials said Thursday, days after he appeared to slur his words on a Sunday night newscast. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The waiting was agonizing. When word finally came, it was worse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The gunshots broke out just after 6:30 a.m. Wednesday and continued as the first of dozens of law enforcement officers rushed into the light-rail facility near downtown San Jose on a rescue mission for survivors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 4.7 quake struck the Truckee area on Thursday night seconds after the earthquake early warning system signaled that a temblor as big as 6.0 was coming. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland police are investigating as homicides the deaths of an Oakland man and his 1-year-old daughter in a house fire early Saturday, and said the suspected arson could be the latest in a string of crimes in the city that may be related. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 30-year old underwater power cable that keeps the lights on at the historic East Brother Light Station in San Pablo Bay has failed, and Richmond Mayor Tom Butt is pleading for help to get power back to the island. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Daly City police officer fatally shot a man on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland firefighters battled a three-alarm residential fire on the 800 block of 20th Street on Tuesday night, fire officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The federal government will not use Moffett Field as a shelter site for migrant children who come unaccompanied over the southern border. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Danville police said an officer shot a man who threatened him with a knife after police responded to reports of a person throwing rocks off an overpass onto Highway 680 on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco school officials plan to reopen classrooms for some of the youngest students beginning April 12, officials announced Friday night, after months of bitter debate over how and when students would return to in-person instruction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco school officials plan to reopen classrooms for in-person learning beginning on April 12, officials announced Friday night, after months of bitter debate over how and when students would return to in-person instruction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Antioch Police Chief Tammany Brooks defended Tuesday the police handling of an encounter with a man who died several days after two officers arrested him, saying that pathologists found no evidence that Navy veteran Angelo Quinto's airways were crushed during the officers' response. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a brazen robbery caught on camera, a person jumped out of a car in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Friday and smashed the rear window of a Prius, stealing a bag with what police said was filled with a drone and camera equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A preliminary magnitude 4.2 earthquake rattled Northern California on Saturday night, according to the United States Geological Survey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it was heartbreaking to sign the article of impeachment against President Trump on Wednesday, but the Bay Area was anything but heartbroken by the action. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A parolee driving a stolen car struck and killed two pedestrians in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Thursday and was captured after fleeing the scene on foot, police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A man was shot at the Great Mall in Milpitas Saturday afternoon, prompting a lockdown of the mall's stores while law enforcement combed the shopping center. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nine people were displaced from their homes after a fire damaged two buildings in West Oakland on Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Contra Costa County district attorney's office has filed felony charges against eight people authorities said plundered merchandise from stores in Walnut Creek in late May. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Marin County authorities are deciding whether to file hate-crime charges against a Livermore man who was captured on video putting swastika stickers on public and private property in Fairfax, police said Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bars and restaurants around the Bay Area closed earlier than usual this weekend as a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew took effect across much of California. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco police are asking the public to check their surveillance cameras for images of a motorcyclist who police say struck a 90-year-old pedestrian last week and rode away from the area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hundreds of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customer accounts throughout the Bay Area were without power on Friday night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rides and other attractions at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk were closed after being open only for one weekend because the county slid back to a more restrictive reopening tier amid rising coronavirus cases. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Dozens of protesters gathered outside of the Brentwood home Thursday night of a resident who upset neighbors by hanging an effigy of a man in a noose with a black baseball cap over the face and a sign on the chest that read "Sleepy Joe (Cheater)." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Robert McConnell was leading over Hakeem Brown in the five-way race to become Vallejo's next mayor, according to partial returns Tuesday night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nearly two dozen elected officials in San Francisco gathered in person Monday morning in a show of force against racism and harassment after two school board members, both women of color, were targeted in social media posts, including a video of a man burning a photo of the pair while wearing a white glove stained with a blood-colored substance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Berkeley officials said residents living in the hills should consider leaving their homes before Sunday afternoon, when dry, windy conditions are expected to bring high fire danger to the Bay Area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WATSONVILLE - Information was scarce and access to loved ones restricted Thursday as the worst possible scenario played out for family members of residents of the Watsonville Post-Acute Center - a coronavirus outbreak that has killed nine people and infected 61. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has expanded the area of possible fire-prevention power shut-offs Sunday and Monday to include portions of Napa County. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The music drifted over downtown Oakland as about 100 people gathered on 14th Street Tuesday evening. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's hot, it's going to stay that way through Thursday, and it's going to be harder than usual to find a place to cool off. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]