The woman wonders if she’s being “too uptight” for asking a coworker to stop hugging her Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

BART saw its highest monthly ridership since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic with almost 5 million passengers in August 2025 — a 9.8% increase from the previous year and a 4.4% increase from ...

In the six years since he became a train operator for BART, Dewayne Deams said, he’s had to contend with a lot of unpleasant and not-so-fun things on the job. He started when the transit system still ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- BART executives were in the hot seat Thursday at the first board of directors meeting since the systemwide outage last week. ABC7 News Investigative Reporter Melanie Woodrow ...

There are hundreds of different situations in which people hug. Every day, millions of people hug. Hugs can happen in sad situations (such as in hugging someone who is crying to make them feel better) ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Service at all Bay ...

BART trains didn't run for seven hours because of a computer equipment problem. This is the fourth major BART outage issue since May. Commuters were left to find alternative modes of transportation ...

Caution tape warns commuters that BART is down at 24th and Mission on September 5, 2025. Photo by Yujie Zhou. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t ...

One of California’s largest public transit systems is tapping the municipal bond market as it contends with a looming fiscal cliff created by dwindling federal aid and ridership that’s stuck at about ...

Late one night in 2009 after the trains had stopped, a multimedia producer for BART walked the tracks with a flashlight searching for a tiny square box. Cheryl Stalter had set out to record a fresh ...

BART’s efforts to lower crime and improve on cleanliness continue to pay off with improvements in ridership and customer satisfaction, according to new figures from the transit agency. However, use of ...