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'It was obvious human skeletal remains,' police said. 

Emergency crews responded shortly after 6:30 p.m. Saturday to reports of a crash west of Visalia Municipal Airport.

Officials are investigating the fire as arson.

Museum curators are asking for any tips on the whereabouts of the missing statue heads.

The labor shortage has played out in surprising ways across California.

Twelve Alameda County residents who attended a wedding in Wisconsin last week tested positive for COVID-19, and five of them have been diagnosed with the omicron variant.

Exceptionally high tides will flood coastal areas of the SF Bay Area Saturday and Sunday mornings. 

When CHP-Air Operations arrived, they found the suspect on a roof.

A three-mile stretch of I-80 near Fairfield will be closed for 10 hours Saturday into Sunday.

A brown haze has floated in the air over the San Francisco Bay Area in recent days. 

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed legislation allowing uniformed sheriff’s deputies to be hired by retailers and commercial establishments to provide additional law enforcement presence at […]

PACIFICA, Calif. (KRON) – A severe traffic alert has been issued on northbound Highway 1 in Pacifica following a collision. The collision happened north of Devil's Slide Trail […]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – The Oakland City Council passed two hiring proposals to address OPD's officer retention problem on Tuesday.  One proposal was by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KRON) – The city of Santa Clara is searching for an elderly man who has been missing since Dec. 5, according to city officials. Around […]

EUCLID, Ohio (WJW) – A 37-year-old Ohio woman accused of firing shots in a fast food lane never ended up getting her dinner Friday. Instead, she was served […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KRON) – The city of Alameda is changing its approach to mental health-related calls for service. Next week, the city is launching a mobile mental health […]

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (KRON) – Nestled inside South Lake Tahoe's Montgomery Estates, you'll notice a cabin that looks a bit different. That's because it's a geodesic dome, […]

BERKELEY, Calif. (KRON) – Berkeley police are asking people in the Channing Way and McGee Avenue neighborhood to review their security cameras to help identify a man pretending […]

OAKLAND (BCN) – A report released late Monday afternoon by a public safety advocacy group says Oakland police do not have a staffing problem as elected city leaders […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — State lawmakers held an oversight hearing Tuesday into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration’s wildfire prevention efforts. Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter testified at the hearing […]

OPINION: As part of the 2020-21 state budget accord, the governor and Legislature enacted AB 85,  a budget trailer bill that enacted several tax law […]

Tis’ the season to strike? University of California Student Researchers United (SRU) from all 10 campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have voted yes, 10,622 out […]

California reported an all-time high of $216.8 billion in taxable sales for the second quarter of 2021, up 38.8 percent from the same period in […]

Sacramento’s core is being transformed by an array of construction and infrastructure improvements — much to the ire of detour-weary motorists. But the centerpiece of the […]

OPINION: As a former member of the Contractors State License Board (CSLB), and a licensed C-10 electrical contractor with more than 57 years in the […]

For most Californians, redistricting is a dark and mysterious process that has little to do with their daily lives. For politicians, it could be a […]

OPINION: Over the past several years, severe wildfire conditions across the Western United States have impacted communities throughout California and prompted new questions regarding where […]

Former California Assembly Speaker and current U.S. Rep. Karen Bass wasn’t the first person to get into the L.A. mayoral race, nor the last. But […]

OPINION: If the Grinch is attempting to steal this Christmas, he is doing so under the guise of supply chain disruptions and congested ports. The […]

Redistricting gurus Paul Mitchell and Matt Rexroad join us with their thoughts about the process, the problems and what comes next from California's Independent Redistricting […]

Six people were charged Tuesday with running a Mexico-based kidnapping ring that took nine people hostage and demanded ransom from their U.S. relatives but killed six […]

Police in Riverside have outstanding warrants for the arrest of five sex offenders and are asking the public's help to track them down. All five men […]

Nearly five years after the murders, authorities have issued a major update hoping the public can help find the person behind a fake online account.

Gunfire broke out on a beach in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Cancun Tuesday, sending tourists scrambling for cover, but authorities said nobody appeared to be […]

A teenage boy was shot and killed outside of a Boyle Heights recreation center on Tuesday afternoon and one person was taken into police custody, officials […]

A fire that damaged three classrooms at Rancho Cucamonga High School on Monday night started because of an overload in electrical wiring, officials said. The fire […]

The 2021 tax filing deadline is still months away, but the IRS on Tuesday encouraged taxpayers to get a head start on preparing their returns — […]

A homeowner shot and killed a man who apparently tried to rob him in Compton Tuesday morning, officials said. The shooting was reported around 6:15 a.m. […]

This one's for the beer lover in your life. Miller Lite has formally launched a line of drinkable holiday décor they've dubbed "Beernaments." A Beermanent is […]

An 18-year-old man was found dead in the street in Rancho Cucamonga after reports of shots fired in the area, officials said Tuesday. Just after 4:30 […]

Personnel from Cal Fire San Diego, CHP and Border Patrol all responded to crash on westbound I-8 near Buckman Springs Road

The visit of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas comes as the Biden administration restarts Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' program

Former police Officer Matthew Dages stood by his account of the encounter with Amaurie Johnson

New plan aims to make culturally rich neighborhood healthier by separating residents from shipping industry

Leaders did not discuss possible public health measures in store if infections spike this winter

The victim lost control of her 2006 Toyota Corolla while headed south, crossing through opposing lanes before striking guardrail and sign post

Since Mobile Crisis Response Teams launched in January, they have responded to more than 250 calls

Walter Lopez Martinez, 27, was a resident of Mexico, the county Medical Examiner's Office said

For the first time in the event's almost two-decade history, no Pearl Harbor survivors attended the USS Midway Museum's ceremony.

Behavioral Health Court's probation track provides treatment and housing, but space is limited to 60 people

The Oakland City Council Tuesday gave the green light to a plan for two additional police academies. It was one of several requests the […]

The people have spoken. The 2021 People’s Choice Awards took place this year in-person at the Baker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, with Kenan Thompson hosting […]

A California judge plans to resentence Scott Peterson to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday in the 2002 murders of […]

Newly released monitoring data shows that San Francisco’s Millennium Tower tilted a quarter inch during the four days it took to install the first […]

A mountain lion and her cubs were spotted in broad daylight Tuesday along Almaden Road in South San Jose. The animals were seen at […]

A South Bay community decimated by COVID-19 wants to make sure the pandemic doesn’t ruin Christmas this year, but to do that, it needs […]

Elizabeth Holmes was back on the stand for a sixth day testifying in her own defense. Holmes admit that she gave journalist Roger Parloff […]

Thousands of active-duty service members have failed to comply with the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, raising the prospect that they will be forced to […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom still can’t spell the word “dress.” He can’t read aloud from a piece of paper in public. That’s why his […]

Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites. The service provides remote computing services to […]

Apps and websites had outages over an Amazon Web Services snafu, SF sheriffs will get overtime pay for guarding Walgreens stores, and yet another “Matrix Resurrections” trailer has dropped.

After a deal to purchase a tourist hotel in Japantown was met with loud pushback from the the community, the SF Board of Supervisors is now looking to buy the former Gotham Hotel, lately known as Vantaggio Suites, at 835 Turk Street.

Also known as C/2021 A, the Comet Leonard will be visible all month, and early mornings are your best time to see it. But you’ll probably need binoculars.

Wow. Another story of a squat where some (probably) meth-addicted squatters ignored or otherwise forgot about some human remains in order to occupy an empty house!

Your “back door” will be more comfortable again on Muni trains, as SFMTA is rolling out a new fleet of seats, and two trains with the new seats are already in the wild.

Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and by extension the United States' entry into World War II over the following days. Commemorations are happening around the Bay Area, which is also home to a handful of the remaining survivors of the attack.

A Healdsburg city council meeting turned into a mini-January 6 insurrection Monday, as anti-vaccine zealots stormed city hall and forced a council meeting onto Zoom.

It should surprise no one that online pitchfork mobs tend not to read very carefully or get their facts straight.

Aziza Graves, the woman arrested on 128 counts of stealing from the Stonestown Target, was arrested again for theft; Contra Costa County has a lot of complaints about restaurants not checking vaccines; the drive-thru Dickens Fair was a mess over the weekend.

More parklet regulation enforcement is coming in SF, a missing toddler was found accompanied by a service dog in the East Bay, and both the Chase and SAP centers are requiring negative COVID tests for entry for kids under 5 and all kids who aren't vaccinated.

Currently, the city is budgeted to have 737 officers but with officers resigning or retiring at a faster clip than expected, the department has struggled to fill positions and is down to 676 sworn officers. 

"It has proved to be an invaluable asset to those small businesses and really a lifeline over the pandemic."

"It seems to me the time for education is over; the time for providing information is over," said Supervisor Karen Mitchoff about restaurants that violate the county's health order.

Sandwiches will make their debut at tonight's Calgary Flames game

Jurors shown email about an 'action plan' to hide from VIP investor group that Theranos could not run certain tests using its much-hyped finger-stick blood-collection method.

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Los Gatos will go from District 1 to 5, while all of Sunnyvale will now be in D3

James Coleman, the youngest person ever elected to the South San Francisco city council, announced on Tuesday his bid to replace Kevin Mullin in the California Assembly.

San Mateo's Hillsdale Shopping Center, a family-run mall, has brought on board a big real estate investment trust as a partner in the busy retail hub.

The 85% vaccination rate for students 12 and older represents progress, but the number of those who have not complied suggests huge headaches when school resumes […]

The defendants are accused of kidnapping nine people and demanding payment from the families. In some cases the victims, who included three U.S. citizens, were killed […]

The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of East 1st and Savannah streets.

An alleged squatter is accused of tampering with human remains after moving into a house where a man had killed himself.

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A 12-year-old boy was killed Monday in a shooting that injured his stepmother and a 9-year-old girl playing at a nearby school.

A feminist witch, a trailblazing Black journalist and the wife of an extremist are among the memorable characters introduced to Times readers in 2021.

After weeks of debate over who should represent USC, Exposition Park and other institutions, the City Council voted unanimously to approve its new redistricting map.

The U.S. is working to resettle 38,000 Afghans temporarily housed at military bases around the country, including 11,000 at one in New Jersey.

These are among the tales of redemption, forgiveness and love told in Column One, The Times' showcase for storytelling, in 2021.