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A five-seat majority on BART's board of directors declined to move forward Thursday morning with a request that staff research and draft an ordinance cracking down on panhandlers and performers in the paid areas of the transit system.
Protesters disrupted an Oakland Unified School District board meeting and climbed over barriers, causing school district police to intervene Wednesday evening, school district officials said.
The Oakland A's have offered to buy out both halves of the 112 acre Oakland Coliseum site, hoping to smooth a dispute with the city and speed along their efforts to build a new waterfront ballpark.
A motorcyclist died in a traffic crash Wednesday afternoon in Oakland, California Highway Patrol officials said.
Police in Berkeley are asking people to be cautious when visiting Codornices Park after they received several reports of a teenage boy initiating sexual conversations with children.
The message during a candlelight vigil held by Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians in front of the health care giant's headquarters in downtown Oakland early Wednesday morning was quite clear: these patients didn't have to die.
At the Lindsay Wildlife Experience rehabilitation hospital in Walnut Creek, an extraordinary effort is underway using cutting-edge technology to help a badly injured owl to live a more normal life.
Police in Livermore are keeping a close eye on Mendenhall Middle School Tuesday after a student found threatening graffiti spray painted on the back of the gym building.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared at UC Berkeley for a speaking engagement Monday evening, drawing a full house to Zellerbach Hall.
Contra Costa County health officers who took air samples at the scene of last week's industrial fire at the NuStar Energy facility in Crockett say there were no unusually high levels of toxic substances detected.
Alameda residents could see their fees more than double to keep the city's storm drains open, and people are asking why the sudden spike.
A brush fire burning in the Brentwood area has been contained after growing to 150 acres, CalFire officials said Monday evening.
A man was robbed of more than $1,000 in cash and injured in what is believed to be a home invasion robbery near the south side of Lake Merritt early Saturday morning.
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton said when they first began writing their book, they started with 400 women whose stories of courage and resiliency they wanted to share. Ultimately, they ended with 103 gutsy women.
Fire destroyed a van and five makeshift dwellings Sunday afternoon at a homeless encampment in Oakland's East Peralta neighborhood, displacing six people, the Oakland Fire Department reported.
