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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending tsunami waves rolling thousands of miles across the Pacific, surging onto Northern California beaches and into coastal harbors, causing evacuations, beach closures and minor flooding in the San Francisco Bay Area. The National Tsunami Warning Center canceled a tsunami advisory for San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties on Saturday evening. UPDATE: Rescue Crews Busy On San Francisco Bay Area Beaches During Tsunami Surge The tsunami arrived in pulses of surging water levels that can pull people out to sea, similar...

UPDATE: The advisory has been canceled for the San Francisco Bay Area coastline, as well as the Monterey Bay Santa Cruz, according to the National Weather Service. The threat still remains in effect for Del Norte County and parts of Santa Barbara County.

Officers in Pleasant Hill are asking for the public's help in locating a 15-year-old boy who has been reported missing, police said on Monday.

MEDFORD, Ore. - Police are searching for a homicide suspect they said has ties to Northern California. The Medford Police Department is looking for 21-year-old Cristian Barboza-Valerio, who is a suspect in a homicide investigation. Police said he has ties to Yuba City and Pittsburg, California and is most likely...

Check the meaning of the word “proem” in Merriam-Webster, and you’ll find “preliminary comment”—a preface or a prelude. Joseph Phelps Vineyards expands that, poetically, into “a preamble to a story.” It would seem that the story they have to tell with their newest wines is of the ever-increasing potential of their Freestone Estate in far-west Sonoma, and they’ve bottled the preamble in the form of two remarkable new Pinot Noirs off the property: Proem No. 1 and Proem No. 2—wines that offer vivid expressions of exceptional, small blocks in two of the estate’s vineyards. The story isn’t unique. As a skilled...

A Berkeley native was pushed to her death in front of a New York City subway train.

WALNUT CREEK (CBS SF) — Kaiser Permanente has alerted nearly 4,000 of its members who received a Pfizer COVID vaccine at its Walnut Creek Medical Center that they may have received less than a full dose. The HMO has sent notices to those members this month offering appointments for...

Pioneer Elementary School Principal Casey McClure disputes a report that he forced the resignation of former parent club president Krystyna Rakow over a t-shirt supporting police and showcasing her patriotism for the American flag. McClure issued a formal letter to the Pioneer Elementary School (City of Brentwood) community over the...

Officers in Pleasant Hill are asking for the public's help in locating a 15-year-old boy who has been reported missing, police said on Monday. Brandon Abbett is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 107 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes, according to police. Investigators believe Brandon vanished sometime between...

Cytokines TNF and IL-6 can cause severely damaging inflammatory effects as a result of stem cells attacking host cells of blood cancer patients. Researchers at the UC Davis Medical Center recently discovered a novel treatment against graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a potentially lethal inflammatory condition that can arise following stem cell transplantation, which treats blood cancers and disorders. Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (allo-HSCT) to treat some blood cancers and disorders involves injecting a donor’s bone marrow stem cells, also known as graft, into blood cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

The Bay Area is finding ways to honor Doctor King's legacy, despite the latest COVID surge.

Police in Pleasant Hill, Calif., is calling on the public to help find a 15-year old boy who was reported missing Monday morning. Brandon Abbett is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 107 pounds, the Pleasant Hill Police Department said. Abbett has brown hair and blue eyes. Police said...

ANTIOCH, Calif. - Police in Antioch are searching for 81-year-old Earlis Celestine, who went missing Sunday. Celestine was last seen earlier that morning leaving home in a red 2013 Kia Optima, which has a California temporary license plate of BM27P18. In a post on social media at 7:28 p.m. Sunday,...

Michelle Go was born in Berkeley and grew up in Fremont. Her family describes her as a "beautiful" and "intelligent" woman, whose life was taken in a "senseless act of violence."

From Berkeley to San Francisco and beyond, Dr. King visited the Bay Area several times throughout the 1960s. ABC7 took a dive into our archives to explore some of his visits, and his legacy he leaves behind.

January is National Mentoring Month, so the Sun’s Anna Pier sat down with the Executive Director of the Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance. Our local mentoring program has received governmental and national recognition. That’s right. Kathy Witkowicki, who co-founded the original Stand By Me, and served for years as Executive Director, received the Jefferson Award. The national organization of mentoring groups also honored us, and has drawn on our successful model.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to invest $9.1 billion in climate-friendly transportation and infrastructure projects in a press release Thursday. According to the press release, the plans are part of Newsom’s California Blueprint, which also includes $2.3 billion in funding to support the movement of goods throughout the state.

Novato and Sonoma based SolarCraft, recently completed the installation of a 76.5 kW solar power installation at the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center in Santa Rosa. Harnessing the power of the sun, the Sonoma Museum increased the sustainability of its operations while cutting operating costs by thousands every month.