30 Years After Loma Prieta Earthquake, Doctor Reflects On "Miracle" Rescue
Thirty years after he pulled a boy alive from the wreckage of the Cypress Freeway by chainsawing through another earthquake victim, an East...
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Psychiatrists Bring Mental Health Care Into Oakland Homeless Camps
A pioneering program in the East Bay is bringing psychiatric care right into those homeless tent encampments that dot the Bay Area's urban l...
Guerneville Not Ready For Fire Season After Historic Flood
Some Russian River residents say there are two seasons in the county, flood season and fire season with little rest in between. In the last...
Guerneville Residents Uprooted After Historic Flood "I Didn't Have A Choice"
Six months after the worst flooding on the Russian River in 25 years, the long term effects are being felt in a diaspora of long time locals...
Slow Start To Tourist Season After Historic Flood Hits Guerneville
Six months since the Russian River climbed 13 feet above flood stage, the worst in 25 years, the scars are well hidden. This is high season,...
Guerneville Roads Remain Clogged With Mud, Debris Six Months After Historic Flood
Next week will mark six months since heavy rains pushed the Russian River to 45 feet, inundating towns and washing out roads. For an area so...
Sake Guru Offers Discounts To Vent Anger Over Parking Tickets
The owner of a sake shop in San Francisco's Hayes Valley is venting his frustration over the neighborhood's lack of parking by putting his m...
Bay Area Man Recalls Harrowing Journey From El Salvador, As Another Desperate Generation Seeks Refuge In The US
As Mexican authorities pull more migrants out of caravans, deporting them to their home countries, desperate Central Americans are returning...
Mexican Crackdown On Migrant Caravans Predates Trump Threats
In recent days, Mexico has been cracking down on migrant caravans, arresting and deporting more of the immigrants moving through the country...
In El Salvador, US Aid Is A Life Or Death Matter For Young People
President Trump is trying to eliminate U-S aid to the three countries that make up Central America's "Northern Triangle," because he doesn't...
In Gang-Ravaged El Salvador, Survivors Cling To Hope
As KCBS Radio Political Reporter Doug Sovern reported in the opening segment of this week's special five-part series, President Trump is exa...
CHP Nails Commuters Who Cheat By Driving On The Shoulder
If you're tempted to drive on the shoulder in the East Bay to get around your rush hour backup, you might want to think twice. The CHP is cr...
"Plastic Patrol" Scours San Francisco Bay For Debris
Experts warn that within thirty years, there will be more plastic garbage in the world's oceans than there are fish. To keep that from happe...
KCBS duPont-Columbia Awards 2019 Entry: Wine Country Wildfires
KCBS Radio's entry for the 2019 duPont-Columbia Awards: a compilation of our Breaking News coverage of the biggest California story of 2017,...
Oakland Celebrates Restaurant Week
There are dining discounts to be had all over Oakland, which is celebrating Oakland Restaurant Week. KCBS Radio Reporter Doug Sovern says at...
Oakland Celebrates Restaurant Week
There are dining discounts to be had all over Oakland, which is celebrating Oakland Restaurant Week. KCBS Radio Reporter Doug Sovern says at...
Bay Area Living: Is It Worth It? Part 2, Employment
The Bay Area is facing a problem: many of the jobs offered here just don't pay enough to live on. In part two of our KCBS Special Series rep...
Remote Bay Area Geysers Important Source Of California Green Energy Also Produce Small Earthquakes
KCBS' Jeffrey Schaub takes us to the Geysers geothermal fields. It’s the single largest power-generating operation of its kind on the planet...
Remote Bay Area Geysers Important Source Of California Green Energy Also Produces Small Earthquakes
KCBS' Jeffrey Schaub takes us to the geyser geothermal fields, the single largest power-generating operation of its kind on the planet and i...