Martinez ordered the immediate shutdown of several Hidden Valley pickleball courts after months of noise and parking complaints; nets were removed as the city evaluates next steps.

Oakland is moving to buy the vacant San Pablo Avenue storefront that once housed Community Foods Market to revive the Hoover branch, closed in 1981. The plan faces funding and design hurdles but would restore a key neighborhood resource.

Mayor Kevin Wilk’s Mayor’s Minute rounds up arts and parks news: Lost in Yonkers at the Lesher Center, the Heather Farm groundbreaking and a free Family Art Day.

New PPIC data shows about 51% of California freshmen now graduate in four years, but the gains hide big differences between UC, CSU and community college pathways.

Interactive charts from the San Francisco Chronicle and UC data show sharp differences in acceptance rates and admitted GPAs by major for fall 2025. Berkeley CS ticked up but high‑demand programs remain tight.

A ticket bought at an Arco AM/PM in Brentwood matched four numbers plus the Powerball and paid $36,646 in the March 11 drawing, per lottery officials.

Oakland won a roughly $4.4M federal lead‑hazard grant that will fund abatement in about 50 low‑income homes and money to expand contractor capacity, with work aimed to start this fall.

Brentwood police posted a March 10 safety notice saying a seniors' "Assassins" game using toy guns and hiding has raised safety and legal concerns for students and neighbors.

Oakland issues hundreds of dumping fines but collects only a tiny share, leaving neighbors to shoulder repeat piles while crews keep cleaning.

An SF Chronicle tract‑level map ranks Bay Area neighborhoods by how evenly incomes are spread, highlighting surprising pockets of mix and entrenched zones of wealth or poverty.

Longtime Oakland leader Wilson Riles Jr. is recovering at home after a massive stroke; friends and family have launched a fundraiser to help cover in‑home care.

Berkeley’s council left approvals in place for two high‑rise projects that invoked the state density bonus to win exemptions from the city’s HARD HATS labor rules.

Berkeley's Black Student Union says racist graffiti at Clark Kerr and a social-media photo prompted multiple conduct reports and demands for accountability from campus officials.