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Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker said on Wednesday that her office has secured settlements that will require landlords to address what she says are unsafe and inhumane living conditions at two rental properties.
The county of Alameda voted Tuesday to ban skateboarding on all county property, allowing for violators to be cited.
Firefighters were able to quickly control a warehouse fire that required three alarm calls to bring in reinforcements.
Alicia Shaffer is on her way to becoming a self-made millionaire, from what she started as a hobby.
The Berkeley City Council will consider a proposal by the city's Peace and Justice Commission Tuesday night to impose a two-year moratorium on drones.
One person was killed in a fatal hit-and-run incident on 32nd Street and San Pablo Avenue in Oakland Friday afternoon, according to police.
Nearly three weeks after rapper "The Jacka" was gunned down in East Oakland, police have not named a suspect and have not made any arrests despite being close enough to the killers to hear the gunshots that took his life.
The Oakland office of Veterans Affairs improperly filed and then lost about 14,000 unprocessed veterans benefit claims, some dating back to the 1990s, a federal government investigation found.
The fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnels will be closed Friday night and part of Saturday morning for its first-ever emergency response drill, a Caltrans spokesman said.
The minimum wage in Oakland will jump $3 in less than weeks and restaurants from Piedmont to Jack London Square are still figuring out how they are going to stay alive.
A suspect in a sex trafficking ring in four Bay Area counties who has been a fugitive for four years turned herself in to authorities Tuesday morning.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who represents parts of the East Bay, talks about her plan for combating ISIS, but her critics are calling it a peace bill.
A pilot whose plane lost power after taking off made an emergency landing at a golf course in Hayward Sunday afternoon, a fire spokesman said.
While the Oakland Raiders have vowed not to pay their the O.Co Coliseum rent for last year's season, Mayor Libby Schaaf said she isn't concerned neither should fans.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys have just settled the largest wrongful death civil rights settlement in California history and it will change the way inmates with addictions are treated in prisons across the country.
The books and papers sit in stacks on the floor in the library at Fremont High in East Oakland, while many of the shelves are empty. It's been shut down for more than six years.
Some port operations on the West Coast--including at the Port of Oakland--will be temporarily suspended this weekend because of the on-going labor dispute between port operators and union workers.
Alameda County Sheriff's Office officials Wednesday said they have made an arrest in a sexual assault on an 8-year-old girl that occurred in a dollar store in the Cherryland area on Sunday.
One of the oldest structures in Berkeley is showing off in style for its centennial anniversary.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office released a sketch Tuesday of a suspect in the sexual assault of a girl at a Cherryland store over the weekend.
An 8-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in the toy aisle of a Cherryland dollar store on Sunday afternoon, an Alameda County sheriff's sergeant said.
Alameda County sheriff's officials have identified a man who allegedly shot at two plainclothes deputies while they were conducting surveillance on a suspected marijuana grow in West Oakland Wednesday afternoon.
A 40-year-old man was arrested in Oakland early Thursday morning after he allegedly led California Highway Patrol officers on a chase that eventually ended when he rammed into two pursuit vehicles.
The California Department of Public Health reported Wednesday that the measles outbreak that started in Southern California has grown to 95 cases in eight states and Mexico.
