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An official with the environmental group Save Mount Diablo recently made a startling discovery on the mountain: a third known population of the critically endangered Mount Diablo buckwheat, also known by scientists as Eriogonum truncatum.
Laboring will be the optimum word for the upcoming holiday weekend as soaring triple-digit temperatures create challenging conditions for residents, firefighters battling wildfires and air conditioning units powered by the state's overtaxed power grid.
An East Bay state legislator's bill protecting reproductive digital information handled by companies headquartered in California passed the Legislature on Wednesday and awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature.
Semiautomatic firearms, along with drugs and cash, were seized after police said they busted another illegal casino in East Oakland.
Police in Oakland on Wednesday asked for the public's help identifying a vehicle connected to last Friday's tragic triple homicide on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Two Asian-owned businesses run by the same family were ransacked in Oakland early Wednesday morning, leaving one of the proprietors feeling helpless.
At Lake Merritt, a natural phenomenon has people stopping, staring, and smelling.
A dome of high pressure began settling over the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday, turning up the heat to sweltering triple digit temperatures through the Labor Day weekend.
A shooting Tuesday night on I-580 near Oakland injured a 9-year-old boy and caused the car he was riding in to crash, hurting the driver, the California Highway Patrol said.
Behind a closed chapel office door inside the federal women's prison in Dublin, a chaplain forced inmates seeking his spiritual guidance to have sex with him — exploiting their faith and their powerlessness.
One person was in custody and a second remained at large after riddling a Newark home with bullets and the crashing their vehicle during a short police pursuit.
Tenants of a high-rise apartment building held a rally Tuesday night, to show they've had enough with their living conditions and are going to stop paying rent until the problems have been fixed.
The fish die-off at Lake Merritt, affectionately known as Oakland's backyard, is creating quite a smelly situation just in time for the Labor Day weekend.
On Tuesday morning, four Oakland city councilmembers voiced their support for a statewide ballot measure this fall to establish a right to reproductive freedom in the state Constitution.
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office has filed hate crime charges against a man caught on camera directing religious slurs and derogatory comments at another man outside a Fremont fast-food restaurant earlier this month.
