Eat your way through Oakland's Burger Trail

Taste your way through The Town, with Oakland's very own burger trail. Visit Oakland created an online guide to 20 of the best burger centric locations, and the trail focuses on what organizers call true burger joints. Joining us in studio to talk about it is Peter Gamez, the president and CEO of Visit Oakland, as well as Chef Dirk Tolsma of Acre Kitchen a& Bar in Rockridge.

Report: Native white sturgeon species is rapidly declining

A native California species is rapidly declining. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America. According to a new report, there are just 6500 white sturgeon between 40 and 60 inches long left in California. Joining us to talk more about what may be behind the rapid decline, is John Kelly, Statewide Sturgeon Coordinator at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Local seagull hitchhikes on garbage trucks

Rare, never before seen behavior in a San Francisco seagull. San Jose State researchers tracked one seagull's journey to and from her nest on the Farallon Islands. What they discovered sounded like something from a children's book. Her eight mile journey was not one of her flying to different locations, but rather she was hitchhiking a ride on a garbage truck. Scott Shaffer, professor of biological sciences there at San Jose State University joined us on The Noon to talk about the finding.

Bay Area sees new 'doom loop,' researchers find

The Bay Area is experiencing a different kind of doom loop than what we've seen in the past. Dan Kopf, the data and research editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, joined us on 'The Nine' to share what he and his team found about the aging population of the Bay Area, and how this demographic shift is expected to significantly impact housing, schools, the labor force and consumer demand.

Woman shot, killed while walking dogs in San Leandro

San Leandro Police Department officers were called just after 11:10 p.m. on Thursday to the area of East 14th Avenue and Williams Street on reports of the shooting and found the woman injured at the scene.