Politics
Golden Gate residents hear officials from Oakland’s Redevelopment Agency explain how becoming part of a city redevelopment area could change the neighborhood.
UPDATED: 9:00p.m. A still-undetermined amount of oil spilled from the Panamanian-flagged tanker ship the Dubai Star into the San Francisco Bay Friday morning around 6:48 AM, causing an oil slick two miles long and 220 yards wide.
County D.A Nancy O’Malley and Assemblymember Sandre Swanson, who wrote the legislation, joined other officials yesterday to explain a new state law quadrupling penalties for sex trafficking of young people.
“What I have to do is take what I have and make that as efficient as I possibly can, ” new police chief Anthony Batts told reporters. “We can’t do twenty things. But we can do the top two or three or four or five that this city says it wants to do.”
Bridge failures have become a growing concern in recent years due to funding shortfalls, faulty materials and increased traffic flows.
BART expanded services tonight and ran extra trains while ongoing repairs shut down the Bay Bridge.
Caltrans crews worked through the night to begin repairing a section of the Bay Bridge that collapsed onto the upper deck last night. The upper and lower levels have both been closed to traffic and a construction team is currently working on the bridge.
Two hundred people joined at Lake Merritt early Saturday morning and walked together into daybreak. The walk, called Out of the Darkness, was part of a national effort to publicize suicide prevention.
October 22nd was a National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, a nation-wide initiative to draw attention to the lives that have been lost at the hands of law enforcement officers.