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An Oakland city councilmember thinks the council will have enough votes later this month to provide more officers to the police department.

Seven years after the ill-fated Google Glass, and five years after Snap rolled out Spectacles, another tech giant is trying its hand at internet-connected smart glasses, hoping that this time around things might be different and people will actually wear them.

Police in San Francisco are investigating a homicide that happened Wednesday morning in the city's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

San Francisco police were out in force Wednesday night to build community ties with the city's Chinese American community.

Sheng Thao said if the number of officers fails below 678, Oakland will no longer be able to collect Measure Z taxes, which help fund among other things fire safety and violence prevention programs.

A driver who fled from the scene of a deadly wrong-way crash involving multiple cars near the Bay Bridge in Oakland was likely under the influence, police said. 

Tens of thousands of people forced to flee South Lake Tahoe because of a California wildfire could begin to return to their homes. State fire officials say evacuation orders for the area were reduced to warnings as of 3 p.m. Sunday.

Police arrested an armed man Tuesday after he is alleged to have threatened parents waiting to pick up their children at a San Francisco elementary school.

Investigators are probing the cause of a fire at a Santa Rosa Union 76 gas station that filled the neighborhood with black smoke Friday, causing about $50,000 in damage, fire officials said.

The second largest wildfire in California's history turned deadly Saturday. A first responder battling the Dixie Fire was killed, Cal Fire announced in an incident update Saturday night.

Cal Fire officials are urging people to avoid the Lake Tahoe Area during the Labor Day Weekend as the Caldor Fire continues to burn in the South Lake Tahoe area three weeks after it began.

Police in Oakland are searching for an 18-year-old missing woman Friday evening who was last seen earlier in the day. Lakeisha Pitts is described as an African American female, 5'6" tall and weighing 160 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.

Tens of thousands of South Lake Tahoe residents are watching hopefully this weekend for a chance to return home as firefighters make progress against a threatening California wildfire that has turned their thriving resort into a ghost town.

Federal oversight began in 2003 following a civil rights case in 2000 by 119 Oakland citizens over police misconduct. Four officers known as the Riders, allegedly beat Oakland residents, made false arrests, and planted evidence on them.

San Jose Police are looking for a hit and run driver following a fatal accident Thursday night. Police say the driver ran a red light and struck two cars, then ran from the scene.