SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- KRON4's Stanley Roberts received a special honor on Thursday. The beloved Bay Area reporter was honored live on air by San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President David Canepa, who proclaimed Thursday, "Stanley Roberts Day." "Stanley Robers is a celebrated Bay Area journalist whose unmistakable voice, sharp eye for truth and [...]

HAYWARD, Calif. (KRON) -- Doorbell video from a nearby resident captured the moment an underground gas line caused an explosion that erupted into a massive residential fire. The explosion occurred around 9:35 a.m. on 800 block of East Lewelling Boulevard. Watch the video in the player above for the moment the explosion occurred. Six people [...]

(KRON) -- A San Jose family operated a network of brothels that sex trafficked dozens of women, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. Prosecutors said the Bresee family earned about a million dollars per year from 10 commercial brothels located in Gilroy, Morgan Hill, San Jose, Cupertino, Mountain View, and Hayward. The [...]

(KRON) Anheuser-Busch is shutting down the Fairfield Budweiser plant at 3101 Busch Dr., a spokesperson for the company told KRON4 News Thursday. The Budweiser plant, which opened in 1976, will close in early 2026 after 50 years of production, an Anheuser-Busch spokesperson confirmed. The closure is part of a large-scale shift in production that [...]

(KRON) -- Twenty years ago, 38-year-old Alfonso Gonzalez was hired by a Menlo Park jewelry store owner to kidnap, rape and murder one of his employees because she rebuffed his romantic advances, according to the San Mateo County District Attorneys Office. On Wednesday, a parole board reviewing his conviction declared that the hired kidnapper remains [...]

(KRON) -- Law enforcement officials released the identities of a husband and wife who died in a murder-suicide in Redwood City. According to police, 36-year-old Denise Alessan Madrigal Martinez was slain by her husband last weekend. The husband was identified by police as Armando Madrigal Barajas Jr., 36. The couple, who lived in Redwood City, [...]

(KRON) -- Firefighters were responding to a fire and possible explosion on East Lewelling Boulevard in Hayward on Thursday morning. According to the Alameda County Fire Department, the fire is at three alarms and there are possible injuries. Eight engines and two trucks are responding to the incident, according to Alameda County Fire. Video from [...]

(KRON) -- One of the most long-running businesses on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue is slated to close. Berkeley Hat Company, located at 2510 Telegraph, will be closing its doors after five decades. The iconic business began in the 1970s when founder Carol Lipnick and her late husband Ed Dougherty began selling handcrafted Panama hats for $8 [...]

(KRON) -- Police in the Bay Area are crediting newer technologies in helping to locate lost loved ones. An elderly man and an elderly woman who recently went missing in separate incidents across the region were found after being tracked through automated license plate reader cameras in one case, and an Apple AirTag in another. [...]

(AP) -- Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will bring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker to the AI company's Sora video generation tool, in a licensing deal that the two companies announced on Thursday. The agreement makes the Walt Disney Co. the first major content licensing partner for Sora, [...]

(KRON) -- An unlicensed cannabis cultivation site in Hayward was raided in a multi-agency operation last month, resulting in thousands of plants and nearly 200 pounds of processed cannabis being seized, the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife-led operation in Hayward executed search warrants at ...

(KRON) -- The Milpitas Police Department is seeking the publics assistance in locating a missing at-risk woman last seen Wednesday afternoon. Dianna Wagner, 70, is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds. She has brown eyes and gray hair. Wagner was last seen near the 300 block of Moretti Lane at [...]

(BCN) -- Thursday calls for patchy and dense fog covering multiple parts of the Bay Area, especially inland, with mostly clear and sunny skies elsewhere, according to the National Weather Service. Daytime highs will be mostly in the low to mid 60s on the coast, low 40s to high 50s around the bay, and in [...]

(KRON) -- Mosquito and tick-borne diseases may become rampant in the South Bay as the Santa Clara County Vector Control District faces financial difficulties. The district reported a $1.7 million deficit last year, and if no action is taken, employees warn that it could shut down, leaving the community vulnerable to diseases like West Nile [...]

(KRON) -- The Alameda County Sheriff's Office said detectives from its narcotics task force made an arrest following a lengthy investigation into an alleged drug trafficking operation in the East Bay. ACSO said Erik Salas, 26, of San Lorenzo, was taken into a custody Tuesday after a search warrant was served at his residence. "Detectives [...]

(KRON) -- While December is a time for families gathering together, some children will spend the holiday season separated from their parents due to circumstances beyond their control. San Mateo County officials are asking local residents to become foster parents so that children can have a safe home, even if it's temporary. Currently, there are [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) -- Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones-Dickson has filed a motion to dismiss manslaughter charges against Officer James Fletcher, who is accused of killing Steven Taylor in 2020. The motion argues that the charges cannot be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, suggesting that Fletcher may have acted in self-defense or in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Investigators with the San Francisco Police Department are asking for the public's help to find a dog named "Charlotte Rose" who they say ran away after being kicked by a suspect in an elder abuse case. SFPD said officers responded Sunday at 3:32 p.m. in the area of Post and Leavenworth [...]

EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story misidentified the terminal that was recognized. We regret the error. SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A Bay Area airport has received a top international architecture and design award. Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport received the World Title for Airports in UNESCO's prestigious Prix Versailles awards. ...

VALLEJO, Calif. (KRON) -- Attorneys are demanding answers from the City of Vallejo after allegations surfaced about a secret file cabinet containing police misconduct records. Deputy Public Defender James Mulgannon reported that a judge ordered Vallejo to clarify the existence of a 'secret file cabinet' allegedly holding records of officer misconduct. "They ...

(KRON) -- A routine traffic stop led to much more after a loaded ghost gun was discovered when a driver was pulled over for having tinted windows, the California Highway Patrol Santa Rosa area office said. The incident happened on Highway 116 in Guerneville near Neely Road, CHP confirmed in a social media post Wednesday [...]

(KRON) -- A Pleasant Hill woman who embezzled more than $1.6 million while serving as the finance manager of a Northern California non-profit charity organization that served young people has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. A U.S. district judge handed down the 27 months [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A Palo Alto school's dean of academic affairs was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver while she was walking in San Francisco last week. Erika Yeates is a beloved educator at LydianAcademy, a private middle school and high school. Yeates was walking with her partner on December 5 when she was [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A viral video showing a man being discovered hiding in the trunk of a Waymo by a female passenger is raising concerns about the safety of the driverless taxis. The video was originally posted to TikTok under the caption, "I ordered a Waymo for my daughter and a random was in [...]

(KRON) -- A Sebastopol man who was convicted of DUI four times within the past decade was sentenced to prison Tuesday following his most recent drunk driving incident. Rafael Onofre-Remigio, 31, was sentenced by Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Gnoss to serve three years in state prison, prosecutors said. Just after midnight on August [...]