The building is located two blocks away from the Lake Merritt BART station, about the same distance away from the Oakland Museum of California. Officials said the fire started in a Dumpster in the ...

Oakland resident and nonprofit worker Nina Groleger was wandering around Lake Merritt recently when ... a wildlife biologist ...

The VHS footage, contributed by the Oakland History Center at the Oakland Public Library, shows hosts, performers, vendors ...

Since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist atrocities, the streets of Oakland, and especially around Lake Merritt, have become a canvas for anti-Israel and antisemitic graffiti. “Long live Hamas ...

The students marched from Oakland High to a freeway underpass near Lake Merritt. Organizers said they walked out to send a message to President Trump that they don't support immigration raids and ...

Anger at the Trump administration bubbled over across the Bay Area as hundreds gathered for “Not My President’s Day” to ...

A retired University of California, Berkeley professor was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Oakland on Monday ... Avenue and Park View Terrace near Lake Merritt on the report of a vehicle hitting ...

“Even in defeat we stand together,” said Berkeley’s first poet laureate, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, at the Oakland Pergola beside Lake Merritt to a crowd that surrounded him. “We cannot let ...

Prosecutors charged JaJuan Kelly, 23, with four counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm for allegedly shooting four people on the evening of June 19 at Oakland's Lake Merritt.

Off Lake Merritt Boulevard, near the lake's most southwest ... Lastly, the backdrop of the lake and the Oakland Hills is nice.