Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is starting the last week of what has been a months-long series of events to gather feedback on ...

First Amendment advocates are now calling for an end to a policy requiring journalists to have police-issued credentials.

OAKLAND — The theft of more than 1,000 items from an Oakland Museum of California storage site Oct. 15 was a crime of opportunity and not a targeted heist, museum officials said Friday. So far, none ...

OAKLAND — Throughout 2023 and rolling into last year, this city on the east end of the Bay Bridge found itself where it’s often been — downcast and written off. A crime wave swept the city, even ...

Oakland police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead last week. Officers were sent to the 1700 block of 28th ...

Oakland will pay Ty Whitehead a record $7 million payout after he suffered permanent injuries from a pothole accident on his bike. Oakland has paid the most of any Bay Area city, $34M, in pothole ...

The day after her visit, Barbara Lee sat with The Associated Press for an hour at her downtown Oakland office. A veteran state legislator and federal congresswoman but city leader of only six months, ...

EMPLOYEES OF DOWNTOWN OAKLAND’S only McDonald’s restaurant went on strike Tuesday after the franchise owner announced it would close the location at the ...

OAKLAND — A 16-year-old Oakland male was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and hit and run after back-to-back collisions ended in the death of a 15-year-old female passenger and sent ...

But Oakland regained at least a measure of its athletic glory this year with a scrappy, winning professional baseball team, one owned by the community in every sense of the word. Putting a cherry on ...