The California Department of Motor Vehicles has instructed its staff to treat electric vehicles in the same manner as conventional gas-powered vehicles, during behind-the-wheel driving tests. | Continue reading
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has instructed its staff to treat electric vehicles in the same manner as conventional gas-powered vehicles, during behind-the-wheel driving tests. | Continue reading
Dozens of looters swarmed into the Nordstrom store in downtown Walnut Creek Saturday night, terrorizing shoppers, ripping off bag loads of merchandise and ransacking shelves before fleeing in a several vehicles waiting for them on the street. | Continue reading
An extensive Xfinity cable and Internet outage was reported across the Bay Area Monday night and early Tuesday morning, impacting a wide portion of the Bay Area. | Continue reading
A normally quiet neighborhood in San Francisco is buzzing about a sudden explosion of traffic. Neighbors say their Richmond District dead-end street has suddenly become crowded with Waymo vehicles. | Continue reading
A normally quiet neighborhood in San Francisco is buzzing about a sudden explosion of traffic. Neighbors say their Richmond District dead-end street has suddenly become crowded with WayMo vehicles. | Continue reading
A geotechnical engineer and professor at UC Berkeley says the current plan to fix the leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco is "incorrect" and should be abandoned. | Continue reading
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels an ongoing COVID wave, Bay Area health experts are keeping a close eye on yet another variant: Delta Plus. | Continue reading
As San Francisco tries to bounce back from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, crime and homelessness now rank among the highest levels of concerns among local residents, many who are contemplating relocating, according to a new poll. | Continue reading
On Friday, Santa Clara County health leaders announced a drop in its COVID-19 death toll by nearly a quarter after it refined its approach in reporting the data. | Continue reading
Thieves can get several hundred dollars for just one catalytic converter. But KPIX 5 has learned there are bigger players behind the scenes who are raking in much more than that. | Continue reading
A KPIX 5 reporter investigating a series of auto break-ins around Twin Peaks in San Francisco was robbed of his camera at gunpoint Wednesday. | Continue reading
A KPIX 5 reporter investigating a series of auto break-ins around Twin Peaks in San Francisco was robbed of his camera at gunpoint Wednesday. | Continue reading
Elon Musk, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Oracle -- high tech's exodus from Silicon Valley for Texas is gaining momentum. | Continue reading
Five suspects were facing a variety of charges and approximately $8 million in stolen merchandise has been recovered after state and local law enforcement officers busted a major retail theft ring, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Tuesday. | Continue reading
San Francisco Mayor London Breed dined at the French Laundry in Napa Valley with several people last month, the latest elected official to face scrutiny for attending a gathering while also urging people to stay home to slow the coronavirus. | Continue reading
A San Jose woman has been closing a critical gap in the coronavirus pandemic - how to quickly get PPE from donors to recipients. | Continue reading
A free speech demonstration staged by conservative activists quickly fell apart in downtown San Francisco on Saturday after several hundred counterprotesters surged the area, outnumbering and attacking those gathered to protest Twitter's policy toward hate speech and fake politic … | Continue reading
A Russian man convicted of stealing 117 million LinkedIn passwords in 2012 in addition to hacking into two other Bay Area tech companies has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. | Continue reading
Facebook fired a senior engineer this week who collected evidence showing the social media company giving preferential treatment to right wing accounts. | Continue reading
A rare August storm system rolled through the San Francisco Bay Area early Sunday, packing a combination of lightning and high winds that triggered wildfires throughout the region. | Continue reading
A Fremont landlord recently found out his property was being illegally rented out on Airbnb but state and local eviction moratoriums are preventing him from getting his house back. | Continue reading
Many communities across the country are displaying “Black Lives Matter” street murals. Redwood City was one of them until last week when the city quietly removed it. | Continue reading
Transit agencies around the Bay Area have struggled during the pandemic. BART and Muni are both facing budget disasters as riders stay home. But now Caltrain may have jumped to the top of the endangered list, in part because of something very few people saw coming. | Continue reading
Robots that can cook - from flipping burgers to baking bread - are in growing demand as virus-wary kitchens try to put some distance between workers and customers. | Continue reading
A man who seen in a viral video delivering vulgar and racist comments toward an Asian family celebrating a birthday at a restaurant in Carmel Valley has been identified by multiple publications as a San Francisco tech CEO. | Continue reading
Police in San Jose Friday evening have declared a protest over the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis earlier this week an unlawful assembly, firing tear gas into the crowd of activists following a hectic afternoon of freeway shutdowns and smashed windows. | Continue reading
Eric Schmidt, who drove Google's transformation from Silicon Valley start-up to global titan, is no longer an adviser to the search giant and its parent Alphabet. Schmidt left his role in February, according to a person familiar with the situation. | Continue reading
San Francisco education officials announced Thursday that all the city's public schools will go on a three-week hiatus starting March 16 because of the ongoing coronasvirus outbreak. | Continue reading
Alameda County health officials announced a new coronavirus case Tuesday of a passenger who was on the Feb. 11-21 cruise to Mexico aboard the Grand Princess. There have been at least 14 cases including one death tracked back to that voyage. | Continue reading
The Archdiocese of San Francisco Tuesday afternoon announced plans to close all 90 Catholic schools in the region starting Thursday, cancelling classes and all student activity through March 25. | Continue reading
An Apple engineer, who was killed two years ago in a fiery Tesla crash on a Silicon Valley freeway, was playing a video game on his smartphone at the time of the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board announced at a hearing Tuesday. | Continue reading
Officials with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department on Friday received confirmation from the CDC that an adult male resident of the county has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. | Continue reading
Freelance writers and newspaper carriers would be exempted from a broad new California labor law requiring that many be treated as employees rather than independent contractors, under legislation announced Thursday. | Continue reading
A controversial plan to solve the homeless crisis has people fired up in Sonoma County where officials plan to spend millions of dollars to buy three properties to house the homeless. | Continue reading
A San Francisco e-scooter company is accused of making up its own fake permits to operate on city streets. | Continue reading
Friends said the victim in the fatal Montclair Starbucks laptop theft frequently went to the Starbucks to work on his computer and died on his 34th birthday. | Continue reading
Amazon and Facebook are increasing their footprints in the South and East Bay. | Continue reading
A Tesla electric patrol car by the Fremont Police ran low on electricity in the middle of a pursuit, after the department said someone forgot to plug the vehicle into a charger. | Continue reading
Microdrop, a new blood testing company, is promising accurate blood-test results with just a prick of the finger. | Continue reading
Empathy in our culture is quickly receding, especially among college students, so a Stanford professor developed a class for his students called "Becoming Kinder." | Continue reading
San Francisco officials on Tuesday decided to back a plan that allows the city to force people with serious mental illness and drug addiction into treatment without their consent. | Continue reading
A large commuter or tour-style bus caught fire along Interstate 280 on the Peninsula Wednesday morning. | Continue reading
Start-up mobility company Cangoroo announced plans to deploy hundreds of pogo sticks in select cities including San Francisco to compete with electric scooters as a transportation option. | Continue reading
The homeless crisis in the Bay Area has reached new heights, literally, as transients live in tree houses in Alameda County. | Continue reading
For years, an urban legend circulated online and in documentaries purporting how part of a groundbreaking musical instrument -- versions which are stored at a Bay Area university and other institutions -- was dipped in a psychedelic drug. | Continue reading
Health officials in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties confirmed that a person diagnosed with measles recently visited Google's headquarters in Mountain View, exposing employees. | Continue reading
If your GPS begins to go a little haywire around April 6, you may be experiencing what’s called “GPS Week Rollover Event.” The issue may remind us how much the world relies on GPS. | Continue reading