Sunni Khalid

This season of college football is bittersweet for the Pacific Athletic Conference, which has collapsed with 10 of its 12 member schools abandoning the conference. What led to the PAC-12's sudden demise?

Former mayors Libby Schaaf of Oakland and Michael Tubbs of Stockton will lead a roundtable discussion today about Oakland Resilient Families, the guaranteed income pilot which began in 2021 and concluded this June, advocacy group Mayors for a Guaranteed Income announced Monday.

Oakland leaders on Monday announced $2.5 million in funding to improve the city's beleaguered 911 emergency dispatch system.

Two months ago, Anchor Brewing Company closed. The assets of the company have been assigned to a process that could lead to liquidation, but 61 former employees are trying to save the company.

EdSource reports more than 500 California public schools are being audited by the state because they reported that more than 10 percent of their kindergarten or seventh-grade students were not fully vaccinated last school year. Schools that allow students to attend school without all their vaccinations are in jeopardy of losing funding.

A panel of federal appellate judges Tuesday left in place a lower court order that bars San Francisco from using the city's laws against sleeping on the streets to prosecute people who are involuntarily homeless.

Democratic lawmakers advanced a contentious proposal by one of their Republican colleagues to increase penalties for child sex trafficking, but held a series of borrowing measures for housing and school infrastructure during dual hearings on Friday to cull the legislative agenda before the end of session in two weeks.

Municipal law enforcement across California saw drops in manpower in recent years, mostly through attrition and a failure to recruit new officers. Now, several cities are offering cash incentives to current officers, as well as recruits. And, so far, the results are encouraging.

Local and state law enforcement agencies have seized over 100 kilos of narcotics in San Francisco's Tenderloin and South of Market districts over the last three months, including more than 56 kilos of fentanyl, as part of the city's efforts to shut down open-air drug markets.

Legislation aimed to help speed up development of affordable housing across California was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday, in an effort to address the state's housing crisis.