California's home insurance crisis: Real estate industry adjusts
The noose is ever tightening around homeowners, home buyers and home sellers as California's homeowners’ insurance desert gets ever dryer with cancellations, non-renewals, sellers refusing to sell it and skyrocketing home and auto insurance rates for those who can get it. Despite lowered interest rates, the boom days of California healthy home sales and quick financing seem further and further away.
Measure GG: Berkeley caught between economy and environment
Measure GG proposes a special tax on natural gas use on bigger buildings, but some business owners believe it’s too expensive and could force them to close.
Amazon driver leaves after hitting boy on bike
After making a delivery in Castro Valley, an Amazon driver backed into a 14-year-old boy riding his bike to school and then left the scene.
Residents launch petition to recall embattled San Jose city council member Omar Torres
Today, a group of San Jose residents and downtown business owners launched launched an effort to recall city council member Omar Torres. They say a police investigation into his text messages, and his three week absence from the city council, show he no longer has his constituents best interests in mind.
BAMPFA features artists 'Making their Mark' in new exhibition
KTVU's Alex Savidge and Heather Holmes sat down with BAMPFA's Chief Curator Margot Norton, and philanthropist Komal Shah to talk about the latest exhibition, and the importance of promoting women artists.
Founder of Cal women's golf program dies
Nancy McDaniel, the founder of Cal's women's golf program, has died after a long battle with cancer.
Prosecutors seek resentencing for Erik and Lyle Menendez in 1989 killings of their parents
Prosecutors recommended Thursday Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents in the family’s Beverly Hills home, providing the brothers with a chance at freedom after 34 years behind bars.
BART ordered to pay $7.8 million to six former employees denied religious exemption for COVID vaccine
In 2021, BART required all employees to get the COVID-19 vaccination or risk being fired.
Menendez brothers could be released | West Coast Wrap
At a news conference this afternoon, relatives said the move gives them hope that Erik and Lyle Menendez could soon be freed from prison after 34 years. If the court approves the re-sentencing, the Menendez brothers would be immediately eligible for parole, under state law - because they were under the age of 26 when the crimes were committed.
Priest calls out allegedly fake endorsement
Turmoil boils over in Brentwood as a priest demands an apology for a councilwoman running for re-election, saying a flyer implied an endorsement of her by him.
Resentencing recommended for Menendez brothers
Prosecutors recommended Thursday Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents in the family’s Beverly Hills home, providing the brothers with a chance at freedom after 34 years behind bars.
Decomposed body found in Union City home
The decomposed body of a 70-year-old man was found on the toilet in the bathroom of a Union City home.
Teen arrested for dragging school admin by hair
A 16-year-old is facing assault charges, accused of dragging an assistant principal by the hair during a high school homecoming dance in San Ramon.
Family mourns loss of 2 cousins in San Pablo fire
Two cousins, ages 23 and 16, died in a San Pablo apartment fire over the weekend apparently caused by food on the stove.
Bay Area Run Club founder robbed of camera gear at gunpoint in Oakland park
The founder of a local running club is still shaken after being robbed at gunpoint in Oakland. It happened at Joaquin Miller Park very early Friday morning. Jacob Zlobinsky was promoting his latest event when he had thousands of dollars in camera equipment taken.
Burglars hit SF Cannabis business
California Street Cannabis Company on San Francisco's Clement Street was the target of a burglary caught on camera.
San Pablo school on lockdown after nearby shooting
A shooting in San Pablo forced a nearby school into lockdown on Thursday afternoon.
New findings on fast-food minimum wage increase
UC Berkeley Professor Michael Reich, one of the authors of the study, joins KTVU's Claudine Wong to discuss the findings.
Nation's first pediatric palliative care center celebrates 20 years
KTVU's Alex Savidge sits down with Shekinah Eliassen, CEO of George Mark Children's House to talk about the twenty year celebration to commemorate twenty years of support for families navigating long-term and end-of-life care.
Over 200 San Francisco court clerks on strike
More than two hundred courtroom clerks from the San Francisco Superior Court system are on strike.