By criminalizing graffiti, cities ensure that to have their voices heard residents must be either wealthy or criminal.

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

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

OAKLAND — A shooting in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood Saturday night left a man severely wounded, according to police. The shooting occurred just before 7 p.m. Saturday evening in the 1700 block of ...

Amid a heat wave and increased fire danger, Oakland is getting back some critical protection it hasn't had in years with the reopening of three fire stations, including two that serve the Oakland ...

Carla Lee, 29, was fatally shot outside her East Oakland home Monday evening while heading to pick up her niece and nephew. Family members say gunfire came from a light-colored sedan chasing a white ...

Oakland police Chief Floyd Mitchell has submitted to the police commission an amended request for his department's pursuit policy The board earlier this year did not change Oakland's police pursuit ...

Oakland police are investigating the shooting death of a woman in East Oakland on Monday evening. Officers were sent to the 1400 block of 87th Avenue in response to reports of a shooting and an alert ...

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 ...

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 ...