Cheryl Hurd

“The sunset was red and smoky because of all the smoke from all the tragedy.”

Emeryville city leaders on Tuesday night voted in favor of a “pause” ordinance on the city’s scheduled minimum wage increase after the results of a study showed local restaurants struggling and threatening to leave.

The Vallejo Police Department once again is being accused of using excessive force, this time involving a car full of young women, and part of the exchange was caught on cellphone video.

An East Bay mother is frustrated and wants answers after her 5-year-old was allowed to walk 2.6 miles from his school to his home alone.

Time Magazine reported Friday that it has obtained exclusive documents that show the U.S. Navy is planning to construct detention centers to house tens of thousands of immigrants in Alabama, Arizona and California, including the former Naval Weapons Station in Concord, about 30 miles from San Francisco. Cheryl Hurd reports.

A San Francisco Uber driver says a passenger sexually assaulted him and after reporting it to the rideshare company he feels he’s getting the runaround.

One man in Sonoma County has taken it upon himself to bring holiday cheer back to a fire-ravaged Santa Rosa neighborhood one light at a time.

Turkeys are traditional for Thanksgiving but some folks in the San Francisco Bay Area are praying they’ll disappear.

Planning for more protests. That’s the position the City of Berkeley and University of California officials are finding themselves in.

A 28-year-old former Google engineer who was fired over a memo he wrote about gender differences said Tuesday he’s exploring all his legal options and has already filed a labor complaint over his treatment. James Damore, whose memo over the weekend caused an uproar online, said in an email that he was terminated late Monday for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” He...

A woman, who was arrested earlier this week after druging a toddler with methamphetamines in a Berkeley park, will be arraigned on Thursday, according to court documents.

Parents of Sierra LaMar, the Morgan Hill teenager who went missing while on her way to school five years ago, said they left the Santa Clara County Superior Court with a semblance of peace Tuesday after a jury unanimously found their daughter’s killer guilty.

A 56-year-old man detained in San Francisco in connection with the killings of two adults and two juveniles in Sacramento, has been arrested, police said Friday.

Union City police officers reached for their own wallets after a teenager, whose picture was released Friday, allegedly robbed a 12-year-old’s Girl Scout cookie stand at gunpoint.

Once known as the “crack king” of Oakland, Darryl Reed officially became a free man Wednesday night after he and 110 others were granted clemency by President Barack Obama in September.

A week has passed since 36 people, ranging from 17 to 61 years old, perished in a devastating fire during an East Oakland warehouse party. But questions remain.

San Francisco filmmaker Kevin Epps, arrested and released this week in the fatal shooting of a man inside his home, applauded the city’s justice system Wednesday during an interview with NBC Bay Area.

Groups of people who want to get their point across are taking advantage of the world stage during Super Bowl week.

A family really wants to know how its dog got from San Mateo to Tijuana and back to the Bay Area.

A woman’s combat service dog disappeared Sunday while in the care of friends who were camping on an island on the San Joaquin River.