California

Drivers in the East Bay, take note: a stretch of southbound I-680 is shutting down for the weekend for road repairs from 9 p.m. on Friday through 4 a.m. on Monday. The closure stretches from Pleasanton to Sunol, and Caltrans is warning about potentially lengthy delays if you get caught up in the detours.

As the final day of classes at UC Berkeley came to a close on Friday, pro-Palestinian protesters showed no signs of backing down.

The sounds of hits and catches in the South Bay had nothing to do with football this past Thursday near the San Jose State Univ. campus. The school's football team worked through its 15th practice in preparation for Saturday's intra squad game.

San Francisco police are offering details on the department's new plan to crack down on speeding. 

The acting U.S. Labor Secretary came to Santa Rosa's Balletto Vineyards on Friday to announce new labor regulations to better protect the nation's 1.6 million farmworkers, effective June 28. Balleto was chosen because workers there feel appreciated and respected.

After three deaths at a homeless encampment in San Jose, advocates knew something needed to be done.

Golden Gate Ferry service in and out of Sausalito will remain suspended into next week as repairs continue at the Sausalito Ferry Landing, the city said Friday.

Community members in Pleasanton are heartbroken over the tragic death of a family killed in a crash while returning home from a birthday party.

Protests widen at college campuses as a USC student from Pleasanton could miss her second graduation after missing high-school graduation due to COVID.

The teenage boy who drowned in the Russian River while on spring break was the son of a custodian for the San Francisco Unified School District.

Cal Poly Humboldt is moving to remote classes and shutting down its campus following the pro-Palestinian protesters occupying Siemens Hall and Nelson Hall East. 

Cabrillo Unified School District in Half Moon Bay was one of 10 school districts nationwide to be honored Friday by the U.S. Department of Education for its efforts to reduce environmental impacts and provide education about sustainability.   

Three suspects have been arrested in nearly a dozen armed robberies across the Bay Area.

The driver in a crash that killed a family of four in Pleasanton may have been driving too fast, police said on Friday. 

Oakland police officers bade a final farewell Friday to Officer Jordan Wingate, who died from injuries in an on-duty crash in 2018.

Ayelet Waldman, a well-known Berkeley author, was arrested by Israeli police at the Erez Crossing — the border between Israel and Gaza — while protesting the war with a group of American rabbis during Passover.

 San Francisco crews knocked down a two-alarm fire in the city's Presidio Heights neighborhood early Friday morning, fire officials said.