Charlotte Hill O’Neal is known by several names. In Northern Tanzania, where she has lived for decades, she is known as “Mama ...

The City of Oakland is stepping up its fight against illegal dumping. Mayor Barbara Lee announced Friday that cleanup ...

Duffey is in line to be the new city manager in Brentwood, an eastern Contra Costa County city with about 67,000 residents — ...

Oakland expands illegal dumping cleanup to seven days a week, using labor savings to fund additional operations without extra taxpayer cost.

The site of what was once a sprawling homeless encampment in West Oakland has become an affordable housing complex for ...

OAKLAND — An El Cerrito man who allegedly sent threatening and racist emails to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, including his ...

Don’t trash The Town. That’s the message Oakland city officials are sending to people who illegally dump. “I want all of us to build an Oakland where our streets ...

Prescott Station opens in West Oakland, offering 235 affordable apartments on a former homeless encampment site.

Oakland, CA, Police Chief Floyd Mitchell is urging officials to change the department's pursuit rules, which require officers to get permission before chasing suspects at speeds over 50 mph. "It does ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sam Morales, a resident of a homeless encampment along Wood Street, works to clean up his space in Oakland, California, on July 24, 2019. (Photo by Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) ...