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A federal judge ruled that the Oakland Police Department has made sufficient progress to end 23 years of federal oversight stemming from a police corruption scandal.

It's the second known case of the federal government filing criminal charges against someone who allegedly used insider information to make a large profit on a prediction market site.

A man has been seen around the Tenderloin and Mission neighborhoods in San Francisco offering to take people’s blood pressure. Some are concerned he’s using vulnerable people’s personal information to make money.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Reece Rogers of WIRED about a new wave of data collection marketplaces, where users can sell their videos of everyday tasks to AI developers.

Yuba and Sutter County supervisors are supporting state Assembly member James Gallagher's "two-state" solution. Both boards voted this week to back the proposal that would split California into separate states.

You may soon have a way to make your car a lowrider... sort of. A bill proposing the creation of a first-of-its-kind specialty lowrider license plate is advancing in the state Legislature.

Motorists speeding through Oakland beware. The city’s new speed cameras aren’t only recording you, they’re issuing thousands of tickets to violators every day.

Keeping a museum's temperature and humidity constant -- rain or shine, all year long -- takes a massive amount of energy, and it's expensive. But some museums have a solution.

The 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee champ shares what it takes to spell it right in 2026.

The phrase "bird watching" does not take in the full range of people who love searching for wild birds. We meet a few of the many visually impaired birders who use their ears.

The price of a gallon of gas is up well over a dollar from where it was a year ago and these swing voters are feeling it.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.