Kathleen Kirkwood

1 week ago | nbcbayarea.com | Kathleen Kirkwood |Kiley Russell

The California Highway Patrol on Thursday released more details about its officers' cross-town pursuit of a suspect in Oakland this week that ended with one pedestrian dead and another injured. Oakland resident Eric Scott Hernandez-Garcia was wanted by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office for felony evading, and CHP officers tried to pull him over about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday near 102nd Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland.

1 week ago | localnewsmatters.org | Kathleen Kirkwood

Bay Area dwellers may be enjoying the seasonable weather for now, but don’t get too used to it, caution forecasters with the National Weather Service. Temperatures around the region are expected to ramp up by Friday and bring elevated heat and fire risk, NWS forecasters said, with the interior Bay Area and Central Coast areas warming up by 10 to 20 degrees above average by the end of the week.

1 month ago | mendovoice.com | Kathleen Kirkwood

UKIAH, CA., 5/8/25 — A woman died after she fell down and was hit by a car Monday afternoon at a gas station parking lot in Ukiah, police said. The collision was reported shortly after 3 p.m. at a convenience store gas station in the 1100 block of Airport Park Boulevard. It was initially reported as a hit-and-run collision, but when police arrived the driver was still at the scene. Officers found the woman lying on the ground in a parking stall in front of the business.

1 month ago | localnewsmatters.org | Kathleen Kirkwood

The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner this week confirmed the county’s first overdose death due to carfentanil, a drug 100 times more potent than fentanyl. A 39-year-old man was found dead last week with fake M30 pills made to look like prescription oxycodone. The medical examiner warned that M30 pills may be laced with carfentanil, which is a synthetic opioid that is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl.

1 month ago | piedmontexedra.com | Kathleen Kirkwood

A dead gray whale that washed ashore in Alameda over the weekend will be towed to Angel Island to be examined by scientists, officials with The Marine Mammal Center said. The whale is believed to be an adult female gray whale that was previously sighted on Thursday at a different location along the Alameda’s shoreline, near the USS Hornet Museum. Scientists took a sample from the whale at that time and determined it was an adult female. The whale may have been pushed by the tide to Robert W.