Alameda County

Tesla may open next week following a discussion Tuesday between officials of the company and Alameda County, county officials said.

Walgreens will pay $7.5 million to settle with California authorities after an employee was criminally charged with impersonating a pharmacist and illegally filling more than 745,000 prescriptions in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pacific Gas & Electric began restoring power Thursday to some of the 120,000 people it intentionally blacked out to ease the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

PG&E continues to downsize the scope of its latest round of proactive power shutoffs as weather conditions improved Wednesday.

The founder of an artists’ work-live collective in Oakland where a fast-moving fire trapped and killed 36 partygoers three years ago will be tried again on manslaughter charges, prosecutors said Friday.

The defense lawyer for Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena alleged on Wednesday that the fire at the warehouse in Oakland in 2016 was an act of arson that Almena couldn’t have prevented and asked jurors to find him not guilty.

For two hours, victims’ families wept and clutched one another Tuesday while a prosecutor opened a criminal trial by showing photos of and methodically naming each of the 36 partygoers who died in a Northern California warehouse fire.

Two men accepted plea bargains with prison time Tuesday after each was charged with dozens of counts of involuntary manslaughter in an Oakland warehouse fire that killed partygoers at an unlicensed concert.

A judge on Thursday ruled that defendants Derick Almena and Max Harris will go to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of 36 partygoers in the worst building fire in the U.S. in more than a decade.

After the horrific news that 36 people perished in a three-alarm warehouse fire in Oakland Friday, organizations and Bay Area residents are reaching out to help.

Kyle Chapman, one of 10 people arrested during a violent “March 4 Trump” rally in Berkeley in May, was remanded in custody by a judge Friday. His bail was also set at $135,000, according to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.

Immigrant rights groups held a protest Wedneday in response to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office retweet Monday night of a video posted by white supremacist Richard Spencer. Groups including the Asian Law Caucus and the California Immigrant Policy Center gatherered at 5:30 p.m. at the sheriff’s office at 1401 Lakeside Drive in Oakland.

A hair stylist suffered more than 40 stab wounds to his upper body in a fatal attack last month in the high-rise Chicago condo of a Northwestern University professor, police said Friday. The since-fired professor, Wyndham Lathem, and Oxford University financial officer Andrew Warren were arrested in the San Francisco area eight days after 26-year-old Trenton James Cornell-Duranleau was found...

The family of a 26-year-old man whose brutal killing sparked a cross-country manhunt that ended in the arrest of a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee says they hope both men will be denied bail.

California prosecutors have charged a Northwestern University professor with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a 26-year-old Chicago man.

California prosecutors have charged a Northwestern University professor with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a 26-year-old Chicago man. Lauren Pretty reports.

A Northwestern University professor charged in the stabbing death of a Chicago man is a “gentle soul” and the allegations run contrary to how he’s lived his life, the professor’s lawyer said Monday before an initial court appearance in California, where he was arrested.

A Northwestern professor and an Oxford University employee are in custody in California and facing murder charges in connection with a Chicago slaying. NBC 5’s Ash-Har Quraishi has more information on their arrest.

At least nine people were killed and 25 others unaccounted for after a massive blaze ripped through a warehouse party in Oakland late Friday, but officials are preparing for the death toll to rise.