(KRON) -- A Santa Rosa man, Juan Antonio Martinez, 35, received a 20-year-to-life sentence after pleading guilty to charges of second-degree murder and extortion posing as a kidnapper, Sonoma District Attorney Carla Rodriguez said on Thursday. Mr. Martinez's callous behavior both in murdering the victim and later, when attempting to extort the victim's ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- An Alaska Airlines aircraft collided with a bird midflight on Thursday, the airline confirmed to KRON4. Flight 224, going from Boston to San Francisco (SFO), was discovered to be hit by a bird or a flock of birds. The flight landed at SFO around noon. No emergency was declared before the [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- The Alameda County Health Department is facing a shortage of restaurant health inspectors, and it is having an impact on workers at some fast-food restaurants. This discovery comes after KRON4 reported on the rat infestation at the McDonalds in Oakland, where the health department ended up shutting them down. Health inspectors [...]

(KRON) -- A former candidate who ran for Santa Clara County Sheriff was convicted this week of lying about her experience in law enforcement. A jury convicted Anh Colton, 51, of felony perjury for falsely certifying that she had the required experience to run, prosecutors said. Colton was listed on the 2022 June primary ballot [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Aspiring ferry commuters need not dream further, as San Francisco Bay Ferrys Board of Directors adopted a 2050 service vision today a project committing to enhancing, expanding, and electrifying regional transit for the next 25 years. Its no surprise that there is strong interest in expanding the network, said Jim Wunderman, [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners unanimously voted Thursday to approve the city's airport changing its name to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport. Our Board came tothese discussions with a shared love of Oakland and a desire to see our city and airport thrive, saidPort Commission President Barbara Leslie. Since ...

(KRON) -- For many kids, summer is all about fun in the sun with friends. Going to summer camp is a huge part of that. Yet, for so many others, that opportunity is out of reach. CAMP MADE4Me is looking to change that. It wants to give the most underfunded communities the magic of camp. [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The suspect in a double hit-and-run who allegedly led police on a wild chase through the streets of San Francisco on Tuesday made his first court appearance Thursday. Rodney Jefferson, 54, was charged in connection to multiple hit-and-run incidents in the Tenderloin and North Beach, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Thursday marks exactly three years since a father, Gregory Turnage, was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Mother's Day in Oakland, the victim's family said. Turnage woke up on Mother's Day 2021 and prepared breakfast-in-bed for his son's mother. The 41-year-old father later went on a walk around his neighborhood when [...]

(KRON) -- Firefighters responded to a fire in a residential neighborhood in Hayward on Thursday. The fire was near Lucien Way in the Jackson Triangle neighborhood. The fire started in a backyard parking lot at a home located along Lucien. The fire appears to have started in a vehicle in the parking lot before spreading [...]

(KRON) A Santa Clara County jury has awarded $1 million $500,000 each and tuition reimbursement to two students who sued their administration for allegedly falsely being kicked out of the school in 2021. The now-high-school graduates left Saint Francis High School in Santa Clara after a photo of them wearing a black-paint-like [...]

(KRON) -- A suspicious late-night phone call led Livermore police to arrest two men for drug and firearm charges. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, the Livermore Police Department got a call from a woman who was selling her pickup truck. According to police, she was concerned about one potential buyer who wanted to look at [...]

(BCN) -- The Oakland Zoo on Thursday asked for the public to vote on a name for a new male giraffe that recently arrived at the zoo. The 13-month-old and 10-foot-tall giraffe came from the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans and arrived at the Oakland Zoo in a specially designed carrier on Tuesday night. [...]

(KRON) -- An East Palo Alto man who allegedly sent threatening text and photo messages to his ex-girlfriend was arrested Wednesday, according to the Redwood City Police Department. Authorities seized illegally possessed firearms and marijuana at the mans residence. On Saturday, officers with Redwood City PD began investigating 47-year-old Jose ...

(BCN) -- Danville police are asking for the public's help in finding an 81-year-old woman who went missing early Thursday morning. Anna Palma was last seen around 2 a.m. walking away from the area of Verde Mesa Drive and was wearing a floral blouse and carrying a clothing bag, police said. Palma is considered at [...]

Thieves have switched up the vehicles they're targeting most and a social media trend may be to blame.

(KRON) -- One of the largest seizures of fentanyl in Santa Clara County history happened inside a San Jose couple's home, where 13 pounds of fentanyl was found stashed under their baby's crib, prosecutors revealed on Thursday. A 1-year-old boy lived inside a home riddled with drugs. The baby's father, 27-year-old Octavian Moreno, and mother, [...]

(KRON) -- The heat is on this week as an early-season warmup is bringing summer-like temperatures to much of the Bay Area. While the first day of summer is still officially more than a month off, this week's hot weather already has people around the region looking for ways to beat the heat. If you [...]

Home prices are largely starting to normalize across the country but remain high even as more homes come to the market this spring. Record-high mortgage rates are keeping homes largely unaffordable for most buyers. Even a percentage point increase can increase a monthly mortgage payment by more than $100. That's causing potential homeowners to expand [...]

(BCN) -- A motorcyclist died in a crash Wednesday night in Rohnert Park, according to public safety officials. At approximately 10:30 p.m., the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety was alerted to a collision involving a motorcycle and a passenger vehicle in the area of Redwood and Business Park drives. First responders found the motorcyclist, [...]

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Pete McCloskey a pro-environment, anti-war California Republican who co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day has died. He was 96. A fourth-generation Republican "in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt," he often said, McCloskey represented the 12th Congressional District for 15 years, running for president against an ...

(BCN) -- Dublin police are looking for two men -- one of whom was allegedly armed -- who robbed a postal carrier Monday afternoon. Officers responded at approximately 4:30 p.m. to the area of Obispo Court and learned a female postal carrier was approached from behind by two male suspects wearing black masks. The suspects [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Google is set to move out of a prominent tower at One Market Plaza near San Franciscos waterfront, the company confirmed to KRON4. The tech giant has told property owners at One Market Plaza that it will not be renewing the lease in April 2025 for the Spear Tower office location. [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) An East Bay martial arts studio is vowing to stay open after dealing with repeated vandalism. The owner says hes just trying to share his passion while running a positive business for kids and families in West Oakland. The studios owner says its been a frustrating experience having to keep cleaning [...]

RICHMOND, Calif. (KRON) -- The Richmond City Council approved a resolution to support the State of California moving on from PG&E. The resolution encourages the state to use Golden State Energy, which is a nonprofit utility. PG&E has been a recent topic of conversation locally due to the rising cost of bills. A press release [...]