The Oakland City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to allow three temporarily closed fire stations to ...

Residents in the Oakland Hills are organizing and passing a petition asking the city to immediately reopen the shuttered fire stations after fires in Southern California bring to light local fears.

The state’s big utilities are earning record profits as they jack up electric rates. Can new policies ease costs without ...

The Oakland City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to allow three temporarily closed fire stations to re-open, the office of Councilmember ...

Lessons learned: Oakland hills fire response a testament to lessons learned from 1991 tragedy California fire map & tracker: ...

Many who live on the narrow roads of the Oakland Hills remember the devastating 1991 firestorm and while some believe the city is doing also a lot to prepare for a natural disaster, others say ...

Earlier this month, State Farm — the state’s largest home insurance provider — asked the California Department of Insurance to approve statewide rate increases averaging 22% for homeowners. It also ...

Oakland has already temporarily closed two fire stations in the Oakland Hills to deal with the budget ... in the wake of the destructive Southern California fires. Dave Pehling is website managing ...