A family whose Hayward-area home was obliterated in a PG&E pipeline explosion last year filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the company, a pair of construction contractors and Alameda County.
San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller, who was first elected in 2022 to represent District 3, is facing Joaquin Jimenez, the former mayor of Half Moon Bay who once supported him.
The Berkeley City Council recently voted to extend its contract with security company Flock Safety for the use of its automated license plate reader cameras, but decided against adding drones, security cameras, and investigative software to the city’s surveillance infrastructure.
The car is the centerpiece of Driving the Vote for Equality, a national tour pressing the case that the Equal Rights Amendment — ratified by 38 states and stuck for years on a procedural question about a deadline — has only one path left: back through Congress.
The airline will make trips starting Nov. 1 to Phoenix, Ariz.; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Boise, Idaho, according to a news release from the county this week.
The city of Oakland has launched its first free compost hub in partnership with a local nonprofit urban farming organization.
All of Marin County's open land, all those cows and grasses, and there is no nectar. Even the best conservation efforts don’t provide enough healthy forage for honey bees, according to a West Marin mead maker.
At Heidrun Meadery in Point Reyes Station, there is a concerted effort to cultivate honey bees through increasing biodiversity. Heidrun produces sparkling mead from a variety of honeys using traditional methods similar to those used to make French Champagne.
Four people from California, including one from Santa Clara County, have contracted Andes hantavirus linked to the Dutch cruise ship.
A North Oakland couple is on the hook for nearly $1 million in penalties after the City Council this week voted to enforce a finding that they illegally cut down 38 trees on their own and neighboring property.
Oakland Police Chief James Beere said Monday that the group had been under investigation for about two months and that officers, including undercover officers and drone operators, were keeping tabs on participants as they established a staging area at an East Oakland park.
An environmental impact report released last week for a shuttered prison in Dublin has brought the facility one step closer to being repurposed as a federal immigration detention center.
The city of San Pablo has partnered with Republic Services, Inc. to launch California’s first fully electric residential recycling and waste collection fleet.
Officials in Vacaville said the city is implementing budget cuts and operational changes as it works to address growing financial pressures while maintaining essential public services.
San Leandro voters are being asked to decide the fate of a charter amendment on the June 2 ballot that will change the structure of future City Council elections.
On Monday, water lines on Drucilla Drive and Carla Court will be injected with a high concentration of chlorine — specifically, lines affecting 23 households on Drucilla Drive between Leona Lane and Montalto Drive and all of Carla Court, the city said.
The Alameda County Taxpayers Association filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the city of Oakland improperly coordinated with union leaders in an effort to place a new parcel tax on the June ballot and is withholding public records related to the alleged scheme.
Mountain View will hold a neighborhood meeting Friday for residents affected by water main contamination, all of whom will receive direct invitations, the city said.
The city is also collecting information from affected residents to provide reimbursement for meal and incidental expenses at federal per diem rates of $92 per day per resident.
Three separate bond and tax measures for school districts in San Mateo County will head to the voters for the June election.
The county has narrowed the choices of providers to either ChatGPT, owned by OpenAI, and Claude, the AI tool from Anthropic, both of which are based in San Francisco. The selection will be made in May.
Elon Musk returned to the stand Wednesday in federal court in Oakland to continue the testimony he began on Tuesday in his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.
The lawsuit arises from Musk’s claim that OpenAI — the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence developer that Musk, Altman, Gregory Brockman and Ilya Sutskever founded as a nonprofit corporation in 2015 — has become a profit-seeking commercial operation in violation of its founding charter and the law.
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Day 1: Jury selected as blockbuster OpenAI trial begins in Oakland
Day 2: Musk takes stand after lawyers give fiery opening statements