5+ hour, 54+ min ago   (75+ words) Local News Matters The head coach of Tracy High School’s varsity football team has been arrested after a cellphone was discovered recording students while they were changing in a locker room, police said Saturday. Police said the phone belonged to…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (75+ words) Local News Matters Two shootings in Santa Rosa over the Labor Day holiday weekend were being investigated by the Santa Rosa Police Department, police said Monday. The first shooting took place at about 2:15 a.m. Saturday near Seventh Street and Humboldt Street…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (70+ words) Local News Matters The SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center last week announced the rescue of 36 common murres since August. According to the organization, recently rescued murres are emaciated, hypothermic, and have poor feather quality, but its wildlife…...

1+ week, 54+ min ago   (82+ words) Local News Matters A 69-year-old San Simeon man was convicted of assaulting a State Parks maintenance worker after he was asked to stop taking apart a toilet at a Big Sur state park, prosecutors said. David Carl Goad was found…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (62+ words) Local News Matters A police drone helped officers locate a nonverbal child who had left his elementary school and was running in traffic, Redwood City police said Friday. The 10-year-old was found in the 600 block of Woodside Road about 11:10 a.m. Thursday,…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (150+ words) Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (84+ words) Local News Matters Monterey County’s Government Center in Salinas is dealing with a problem that is hard to make up: a major sewer line malfunction has forced the building to close to the public until early next week. The Government…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (95+ words) Local News Matters STOCKTON CITY CLERK Katherine Roland has submitted her resignation, effective Sept. 26, following weeks of uncertainty over her position and closed-session discussions about leadership of the City Clerk’s Office. In her resignation letter, obtained by Stocktonia, Roland said…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (185+ words) Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (165+ words) Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of…...