At least one street in Oakland was in the dark for more than 24 hours but it never showed up in PG&E’s outage map. Sabrina Nichols is renting on 56th Street near MLK Jr. Way and said the lights went ...

Google Maps seems to have gotten itself involved in a naming debate that has the company siding with protesters camped out in Oakland's central plaza. Officially named Frank Ogawa Plaza, the open ...

To ease its deepening housing crisis, Oakland is planning for as many as 36,000 new homes over the next decade — potentially expanding the total number of households in the city by almost a quarter.

The new university campus in downtown Oakland is expected to open next year and bring thousands of students to the area.

Update: The last evacuation order was lifted on Sunday night. The wildfire that started Friday in the hills of Oakland is about 5 miles from where a 1991 fire burned 1,520 acres and killed 25 people.

The house at 2207 East 21st Street in Oakland's San Antonio District. (California court filings via Courthouse News) (CN) — The California Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the city of Oakland in a ...