Alameda County

Some people who test positive for COVID-19 in the East bay will soon get paid to stay at home.

Tesla may open next week following a discussion Tuesday between officials of the company and Alameda County, county officials said.

San Diego Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez had some choice words for Tesla CEO Elon Musk after the electric carmaker filed a federal lawsuit against a Bay Area county in a bid to reopen its North American factory.

California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez took aim at Elon Musk on social media over the weekend after Musk said he wanted to move Tesla’s headquarters from California to Texas due to the state’s strict restrictions during the pandemic.

Tesla has asked some of its Fremont factory employees to return to work this week and resume production despite county public health orders requiring minimum operations, according to a report from CNBC citing company emails.

Santa Clara County health officials have reported three new confirmed cases of coronavirus, also called COVID-19, now bringing the county’s total to seven.

Walgreens will pay $7.5 million to settle with California authorities after an employee was criminally charged with impersonating a pharmacist and illegally filling more than 745,000 prescriptions in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A Livermore family is in shock after someone shot the dog they are fostering. Bella, a Husky-German Shepherd mix, was found injured last Monday off of Cross Road, not far from her home. She underwent surgery and is now recovering. Bella managed to get out of her enclosure and take off. A few hours later, Alex Schenk found her wounded…

Pacific Gas & Electric began restoring power Thursday to some of the 120,000 people it intentionally blacked out to ease the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

PG&E continues to downsize the scope of its latest round of proactive power shutoffs as weather conditions improved Wednesday.

The founder of an artists’ work-live collective in Oakland where a fast-moving fire trapped and killed 36 partygoers three years ago will be tried again on manslaughter charges, prosecutors said Friday.

The defense lawyer for Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena alleged on Wednesday that the fire at the warehouse in Oakland in 2016 was an act of arson that Almena couldn’t have prevented and asked jurors to find him not guilty.

For two hours, victims’ families wept and clutched one another Tuesday while a prosecutor opened a criminal trial by showing photos of and methodically naming each of the 36 partygoers who died in a Northern California warehouse fire.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday putting new restrictions on marriages involving minors.

Two men accepted plea bargains with prison time Tuesday after each was charged with dozens of counts of involuntary manslaughter in an Oakland warehouse fire that killed partygoers at an unlicensed concert.

A 34-year-old man behind the wheel of a Tesla Model S died after plunging into a pond along a rural road between San Ramon and Castro Valley, authorities said Monday morning.

Fossils estimated to be 15 million years old were found in Alameda County where Calaveras Dam is being rebuilt.

A judge on Thursday ruled that defendants Derick Almena and Max Harris will go to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of 36 partygoers in the worst building fire in the U.S. in more than a decade.

The two men charged in the aftermath of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire that claimed 36 lives in Oakland a year ago are expected in court Monday for a preliminary hearing.