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Arrest in Decades-Old Murder of 13-year-old in Cloverdale
This is a press release from the Cloverdale Police Department. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:. The Cloverdale Police Department has announced a major breakthrough in the decades-old Sarah Geer murder case, bringing closure...
US Postal Service holding Bay Area job fairs to fill vacancies ahead of November election
Looking for an important role in the upcoming general election? Join the U.S. Postal Service. There will be two upcoming job fairs next week in the Bay Area — Wednesday at the Willow Glen Post Office at 1750 Meridian Ave. in San Jose and Thursday at 1300 Evans Ave. in San Francisco.
The ripple effects of SF’s floundering office market
Bay Area carpet and flooring company Conklin Bros. has existed in one form or another for nearly a century and a half, starting with a mule-drawn wagon and weathering the 1906 earthquake and a constant cycle of economic booms and busts. An employee for the past 35 years, JoAnn Edson,...
SF pledged $120M to help Black residents. The money’s gone in some strange directions
No city in the country has made a bigger monetary investment in its Black community than San Francisco since the racial reckoning of 2020, which saw millions of people across the country take to the streets to protest the police killing of George Floyd. In February 2021, Mayor London Breed...
Mother, daughter die in fiery crash in Livermore
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Manteca woman and her 5-year-old daughter were killed in a fiery crash along South Vasco Road not far from Interstate 580 in Livermore early Sunday morning, according to city police. The solo-vehicle wreck near the Naylor Avenue intersection also seriously injured the girl’s...
Silicon Valley nonprofits mismanaged federal dollars
Dozens of uncashed checks. Expenditures that were not allowed. Tardiness in submitting quarterly performance reports. These are some of the issues found in an audit of local nonprofits providing housing assistance during the pandemic. In fiscal year 2021-22, the San Jose Housing Department received $89 million in federal and state dollars for nonprofits to distribute for... The post Silicon Valley nonprofits mismanaged federal dollars appeared first on San José Spotlight.
Another Bay Area city pushing for CHP assistance from Newsom
VALLEJO, Calif. (KRON) — In the North Bay, a Vallejo city councilmember is pushing for the governor to deploy California Highway Patrol officers to her city’s streets, similar to how CHP officers are helping to crack down on crime in Oakland and San Francisco. “The neighborhoods and the people are crying for help,” explained Vallejo […]
More than 700,000 acres of wildfire ravage Oregon
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Firefighters in the West are scrambling as new wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington, with at least one Oregon fire so large that it is creating its own weather. Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon was closed in both directions Tuesday between Ontario and...
California Prepares to Launch CalHeat Score, Nation’s First Extreme Heat Ranking System
In 2022, Assembly Bill No. 2238, legislation establishing a statewide extreme heat ranking system was signed into law. Currently this ranking system is being developed by California’s Environmental Protection Agency and is planned to be launched in 2025 as the nation’s first extreme heat wave ranking system. According...
Target offers to launch probe after shopper begs for self-checkout change – lines even stretched back to produce section
TARGET has said it will look into claims of clogging queues caused by a lack of available checkout kiosks at one of its stores. A shopper at the big box retailer fumed that lines were stretching back to the back of the shop - and demanded immediate action. "Target, please...
Woman killed in Santa Rosa leaves homeless community on edge
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - The steady flow of water hitting the rocks along Santa Rosa Creek may look tranquil, but it’s here along the Prince Memorial Greenway between Santa Rosa Avenue and ‘A’ Street around eleven o’clock Sunday night, where police say 61-year-old Lisa McCool was stabbed to death.
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