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An Amtrak train struck an SUV on Wednesday morning after at least two witnesses said they saw the driver go around the crossing arm, and got dragged onto the tracks. 

San Quentin state prison is one of the most infamous lockups in the nation. Inside the gate, barbed wire and watchful guards monitor incarcerated people around the clock. That group includes the nation’s largest death row population, a system the state is dismantling. But on this Wednesday morning, none of that matters. 

A popular Bay Area hiking landmark on Mission Peak in Fremont has been repaired and is back in place, a month after being vandalized.

New video shows two good Samaritans stopping attempted carjackers in Oakland.

A post on Reddit is sure to hit home with many Bay Area residents whose cars have been broken into or who fear that their windows will be broken when they return to their vehicles.

Community members and political leaders on Monday remembered what happened on 22 years ago on Sept. 11, 2011, in somber services across the Bay Area. 

Officials in Santa Cruz issued an alert after swarms of anchovies took over the coastline.

“I really prioritize representing marginalized groups,” Alameda County poet laureate Brian Guan said. “And giving other people a voice as well.”

Coworkers and friends have rallied behind Kylee Kienitz, who was struck by a stray bullet in the hip as she walked around Lake Merritt on Monday.

Skyline High School in Oakland canceled classes on Wednesday, one day after a shooting on campus yielded two arrests and some calls to improve safety at school including adding metal detectors. 

Terrifying video shows the moment a gender reveal party went terribly wrong in Mexico.

The former frontman for the Bay Area band, Smash Mouth, died on Monday. 

Brian Guan of Dublin is the youth poet laureate of Alameda County and Sunwoo (Sunny) Eom of Albany is the county's youth poet vice-laureate.

U.S. attorneys have identified the Hayward man who they allege was driving a Cadillac in what became a viral photo of a San Francisco sideshow, where his girlfriend was seen hanging out the window of the car holding a mini AK-47, the wind whipping her hair. 

Scientists in California and beyond have discovered an "Octopus Garden" of up to 20,000 eight-armed creatures living in the deep sea about 80 miles southwest of Monterey.