A new West Oakland shelter will offer clean needles and test strips to homeless residents. They see greater opportunities to ...

When someone wants to run for a local government office in California, they normally create what’s called a “candidate ...

Ursula Jones Dickson is pulling back from a review of death penalty sentences obtained through prosecutorial misconduct.

Dominic Prado is taking his popular smoked meat tacos to Saluhall on Market Street and blames the city of Oakland for failing ...

Oakland is reeling from the death of Marvin Boomer following a California Highway Patrol chase of a suspect who crashed his ...

"He was so supportive to all his students. He had the biggest heart ever," one student said about the Castlemont teacher.

The announcement comes one day after Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said she and the board weren’t aligned on financial ...

A neighbor stopped to look at the destruction at the corner of this East Oakland intersection. The tree that stopped the ...

The fleeing suspect hit a fire hydrant which broke off and struck a pedestrian, crushing the man against a fence railing and ...

Marvin Boomer, who led the school’s Linked Learning program, was described by friends and colleagues as “loving and kind.” ...

OPD Chief Floyd Mitchell wants to cancel a 2022 rule that some residents say makes it harder for police to chase suspects.

Critics — and supporters — of Oakland’s civilian response program are unhappy with how it’s been run and the results it’s ...