After a dangerous start to the PG&E-initiated power outage, the Lamorinda area settled down to a Thursday without power. Without electricity, many businesses closed including the Orinda Theatre and Loards Ice Cream shop. The power shutoff also snarled traffic in several places as motorists not used to driving without traffic lights had to be cautious […]
The threat of new blackouts was over by Thursday afternoon. By 5 p.m., PG&E had restored power to roughly 228,000 customers -- while an estimated 510,000 customers remained without power.
Saturday TVRadio Baseball NL Championship Series: Nationals at Cardinals 1 p.m. TBS AL Championship Series: Rays/Astros at Yankees 5 p.m. FOX College football Oklahoma at Texas 9 a.m. FOX Michigan at Illinois 9 a.m. ABC South Carolina at Georgia 9 a.m. ESPN Miamia (Ohio) at Western Michigan 9 a.m. ESPNU Memphis at Temple 9 a.m. […]
Two teenage boys have been linked to an August homicide that left one man dead and another injured in West San Jose. Early in the morning on Aug. 19, police arrived on the scene of a shooting at Winchester Boulevard and Williamsburg Drive in West San Jose. 29-year-old Fernando Andrade and a second male victim […]
Autumn brings harvest festivities of all sorts, including pumpkin patches popping up in cities and towns across the Bay Area. ABC Tree Farms (http://abctreefarms.net/pumpkin-patches/), alone accounts for 19, but there are scores more. Here’s just a sampling. ALAMEDA Speer Family Farms Pumpkin Patch: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily through October, 2171 Monarch St. Pumpkins, petting zoo, […]
Metallica is playing five festivals in 2020, which reportedly also happen to be only dates group will perform next year. Here's how to get tickets.
Weather the power shutoffs with humor about the state's largest utility.
Catcher Sean Murphy has surgery that involved a lateral meniscal debridement procedure. He is expected back by spring training.
A civil lawsuit filed charges Cal with a Title IX violation for dropping Renee Thomas from the squad before the season.
Low humidity and high winds are making conditions ripe for fires, officials say.
Alameda County Sheriff's deputy Gael Paredes is back on duty after a May DUI arrest in Livermore.