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Fremont Leads Bay Area In Number Of Electric Car Drivers
FREMONT (KPIX 5) – The city that’s home to the Tesla electric car factory is also leading by example in the use of electric vehicles. Fremont is home to one-third of the people in all of Alameda County...
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Google Begins Pitching Glass As Tool For Workplace
MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) — Google has begun working with different business and industries create specific uses for “Google Glass” in the workplace. Google calls its new marketing push “Glass at Work”...
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San Francisco Gay Pride Celebration Breaks Records With Turnout, Parade
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The 42nd Annual Pride Parade turned out to be a record-breaker. Organizers don’t have hard numbers yet, but they say the turnout was the highest ever. There was also a record...
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Customer Left Inside When San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf Store When...
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Police got a chuckle after finding out a man inside a closed San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf store was not a burglar, but a customer who got left behind. When employees closed...
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Beloved Concord School Teacher, Cancer Survivor Honored With $10,000...
CONCORD (CBS SF) — A Bay Area teacher who has overcome a long battle with cancer got the surprise of a lifetime from her students this week, who were the ones to tell her she had won a prestigious...
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Recurring Head Lice Infestation Irritates Parents At Walnut Creek School
WALNUT CREEK (KPIX 5) — Parents of children at a Walnut Creek elementary school are outraged over what they say is a lack of information of a lice outbreak at the school. The lice infestation has been...
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Clayton Library Criticized For Dumping Hundreds Of Unwanted Books In Recycle Bin
CLAYTON (KPIX 5) — Hundreds of unsold books have been tossed in a recycling dumpster after they were donated to the Clayton library, prompting some clashing opinions on what should be done with the...
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Oakland Cafe Popular With Digital Nomads Bans Laptops On Nights And Weekends...
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_2801201518501022190AA.mp4 OAKLAND (KPIX) — When the Actual Café first opened in Oakland, the staff noticed something alarming — people weren’t talking to...
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LGBT Catholics Embraced By San Jose Diocese In Light Of Pope Francis’...
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_20150204154723280AA.mp4 SAN JOSE (CBS SF ) — At St. Julie Billiart Catholic Church in San Jose, the sign says all are welcome. But sometimes that’s a...
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Local Police Departments To Get Federal Funds For Rape Kit Tests
NEWARK (KPIX) — When rape victims report the crime to police, they are asked to submit to an invasive medical procedure to collect the suspect’s DNA from their bodies. The evidence collected is called...
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Palo Alto To Rebuild Broken Nature Boardwalk, Carefully And Very Slowly
PALO ALTO (KPIX) — The Lucy Evans Nature Center is perched along a broad salt marsh where the city of Palo Alto meets the bay. It is a place of quiet solitude amid the bustle of Silicon Valley. Many...
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Oft-Flooded Sonoma Creek Pays Little Heed To Locals’ Livelihoods
SONOMA (KPIX) — The intersection of Hwy 121 and Hwy 12 in Sonoma County floods so often that locals tend to look at the “road closed” signs as more of a suggestion than a hard and fast rule. When...
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Wheelchair Basketball Tournament Draws 8 Regional Teams To Alameda Gym
ALAMEDA (KPIX) — In a Coast Guard gymnasium in Alameda, a basketball tournament was held where players had a lot more to overcome than just numbers on a scoreboard. Their sport is wheelchair basketball...
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Guide Dogs For The Blind Stress-Tested At Oakland International Airport
OAKLAND (KPIX) — An airport is usually a bustling, confusing place. There are signs, of course — thousands of them. But what if you couldn’t read them? You’d need some help. Oakland International got a...
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Livermore Locals Fight To Save Centuries-Old Oak Tree
LIVERMORE (KPIX) — Long before Sunset Park in Livermore was created, a Valley Oak stood at the location where the park would eventually be located. In fact, at 300 years, the tree was here before the...
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BART Parking Lots Vulnerable To Catalytic Converter Thieves
ORINDA (KPIX) — Following last week’s mass robbery of a BART train by a mob of teenagers, the agency’s acting police chief, Jeff Jennings, promised that his officers would redouble efforts to protect...
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Mourners Remember War Dead On The USS San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Seventy-five years ago, the world was at war and the USS San Francisco was part of a massive naval struggle to take the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. Chief Jon “Johnny” Gordon...
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Residents Wary Over Delta Tunnels Effect On Waterways, Livelihoods
(KPIX 5) — The state’s plan to take water from the Sacramento River north of the Delta and tunnel it down to pumping stations in the south has people who live in the area up in arms. Many believe the...
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Oakland Man Creates Needed Libraries In His Native Ethiopia
(KPIX 5) — At the dawn of the 20th Century, wealthy industrialist Andrew Carnegie began creating his legacy by building libraries across this country. That’s sort of what Ahmedin Mohammed Nasser has...
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Exhausted Firefighters Get a Morale Boost from Grateful North Bay Residents
SANTA ROSA (KPIX) — The job of fighting a wildland fire isn’t an easy one nor is it particularly glamorous but it can come with one big perk: the heartfelt gratitude of people whose community you’ve...
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