A bid is advancing to put rare burrowing owls on the state’s Endangered Species list, protecting a once-common species.

A fast-moving fire fed by strong winds damaged at least seven homes Friday in a hillside neighborhood in the city of Oakland ...

Former residents of the Bay Area bare all about the dirty syringes and sky-high property prices that left them wondering ...

Sadly, there’s no trace of the original Spirit Halloween. The original Santa Maria Avenue location closed, and Marver sold ...

Crews were able to stop the blaze from advancing by 4 p.m., though scores of firefighters continued to battle.

Of the 10 people arrested during the protests on Tuesday and Wednesday, two were arrested on suspicion of assaulting police ...

A California utility shut off power in 19 counties in the northern and central part of the state as a major “diablo wind” — notorious in autumn for its hot, dry gusts — spiked the risk of power lines ...

Firefighters have stopped forward progression of a five-alarm fire near the freeway in Oakland at I-580 and Keller Avenue.