The Oakland Police Department's "Guns to Gardens" buyback event led to the collection of 58 firearms, including assault rifles and ghost guns, in exchange for gift cards and garden tools.

Deputies found stolen credit cards, checks and mail tied to more than 90 victims after a Boyes Hot Springs search. Two people were arrested and investigators are notifying victims.

A watchdog audit says Sonoma deputies mishandled a 2023 Guerneville assault probe and questions whether the sheriff’s office properly investigated a discrimination complaint.

Murder charges have been filed against Cedric Irving Jr. for the death of Laney College's athletic director John Beam, with the potential for a 50-year sentence if convicted.

Families and teachers at James Denman say SFUSD pledged Algebra 1 for all eighth graders by 2026‑27, but many schools still offer only online or summer options.

We tried to check our own website this morning and got an error message, joining millions of users locked out when the company protecting a fifth of the internet went dark. Whether you can read this right now depends on where you're sitting—a fitting introduction to the fragile infrastructure holding the digital world together.

San Francisco OCME seeks help identifying a deceased white man with red hair and freckles found at 131 10th Street; traditional identification methods failed.

A DUI crash at Colma's Japanese Cemetery involved an intoxicated driver who damaged the property's fence; minor injuries occurred, and the driver was arrested.

Petaluma Police responded to a disturbance on East Washington Street; later, they apprehended Hector and Sergio Reyes after a vehicle chase and resistive behavior. The suspects were booked for multiple charges.

Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and writer, died at 51 due to an infection. She founded the Disability Visibility Project, and her work is in the Library of Congress.

San Francisco Bay Area is preparing for a week of unsettled weather with rain and cooler temperatures as forecasted by NWS San Francisco, with some concern for nuisance flooding and gusting winds.

Anthropic says it disrupted an AI‑orchestrated espionage campaign that used Claude Code to probe about 30 organizations. The company traced the activity to a China‑linked actor and says only a small number of intrusions succeeded.

A 70-year-old man was assaulted in Santa Rosa after a collision; Thomas Barajas, 20, was arrested for the attack including robbery and elder abuse charges.