East Bay

The Supreme Court of California agreed Wednesday to consider UC Berkeley regents’ petition to develop the university’s People’s Park site, setting aside a lower-court ruling earlier this year pushing school officials to study alternative…

PLEASANT HILL — A 15-year-old Pittsburg boy has admitted to leaving an illegal firework on a middle school campus that later exploded and injured a 14-year-old boy, police said Tuesday. Pleasant Hill police Capt. Matt Kristic said the…

PLEASANT HILL — Police here are looking for a suspect they say left an illegal firework on a middle school campus earlier this month that was later found by a 14-year-old boy who lit it and was injured. According to a statement, police said…

A student stabbed another student at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek, according to a Mount Diablo Unified School District statement Tuesday afternoon. “Early this afternoon, there was a stabbing in Northgate High School. One student…

OAKLAND — Information stolen in a recent ransomware attack against Oakland could be released publicly, the city warned Friday. In a social media post, the city said it “recently became aware that an unauthorized third party has acquired…

OAKLAND — The annual spectacle involving tens of thousands of ladybugs, or a loveliness, converging near two specific trails in Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park is underway now through mid-February. These ladybugs from the Bay Area lowlands…

OAKLAND — Surveillance video from a shooting last week at King Estates school complex shows two people with guns running into the school as others scattered, moments before gunfire wounded six people. Police released the 36-second video…