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As California Highway 236 winds its way into Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County, there are signs of a fire fight, lost to Mother Nature. Charred bark and downed trees abound. But there are also signs of a rematch that’s already underway.

George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died of complications of COVID-19, a friend said Monday. 

Mill Valley is teaming with Google researchers to organize an evacuation drill aimed at improving the city's evacuation response.

Oakland's relentless pace of violence continues to hold a tight grip over the city, which has logged more killings in 2021 than this time last year.

An Oakland family that suffered injuries in a horrific crash involving a suspected drunk driver earlier this month received a visit from community leaders who came bearing gifts. 

Arboleda led police on a slow-speed chase through Danville on Nov. 3, 2018, after police repeatedly tried pulling him over, after residents called police reporting a suspicious person knocking on doors.

Police in Oakland are looking for a missing at-risk 23-year-old woman last seen Wednesday afternoon. 

Two men have been charged with more than 40 purse snatchings and robberies in Santa Clara County and throughout the Bay Area. Authorities said the suspects were targeting Asian and Pacific Islander women, looking for large quantities of cash.

"Once you get a felony behind your last name, all opportunities go out the window," said one of the three co-owners of an Oakland food truck that is ready to roll. Their new small business is helping them defy the odds.

Spokesperson Erin Mellon said two of Newsom's children tested positive for COVID on Thursday, though the governor, his wife, and their two other children tested negative.

Two former Stockton police officers were indicted on charges of assault for attacking a 17-year-old boy they rammed to a stop after a high-speed chase, authorities said Friday.

The City of Oakland confirms that personnel with Oakland Police Department have been disciplined for their use of a now-deleted Instagram account that contained racist and sexist material, officials say. 

San Francisco Mayor London Breed was caught without her mask at a jazz club, despite the city's ordinance requiring face coverings in indoor public settings, regardless of vaccination status.

Surveillance video obtained by KTVU on Friday shows a man opening fire on a car outside of a diner in Vallejo, killing one person.

A woman and two boys were rescued Friday morning from the ocean off unincorporated Santa Cruz County after their vehicle went into the water, California Highway Patrol officials said.