Artist DeVante Brooks Is Writing On Walls In Oakland
BR's Jan Mabry talks to artist and calligrapher DeVante Brooks, whose unique, stylized writing conveys messages of power and healing -- and it's all over the walls in Oakland.
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BR's Jan Mabry talks to artist and calligrapher DeVante Brooks, whose unique, stylized writing conveys messages of power and healing -- and it's all over the walls in Oakland.
Speed likely played a role in the death of an Oakland teenager on Highway 13 Sunday night, CHP officials said.
A violent weekend near Oakland's Lake Merritt has left a police officer hospitalized, detectives investigating a fatal stabbing and neighbors on edge over a surge in local crime.
A new class of graduates from the Oakland Police Basic Academy celebrated finishing the program Friday morning and prepared to begin working as officers on duty.
Classes in Oakland were canceled Friday as teachers staged one-day a strike to protest school closures.
Police in Oakland are asking for help from the public in finding a teen who has been missing since last weekend and is believed to be at-risk due to her age.
A federal judge is set to ease decades of federal oversight of the Oakland Police Department.
The Oakland Police Department will soon have federal oversight over police sharply reduced.
Oakland students were allowed in class without masks on for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
An arrest has been made in connection with the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Camyla Brown in East Oakland earlier this month.
For programs like the East Oakland Youth Development Center, every dollar counts so a $100,000 donation from Amazon was a cause to celebrate Thursday.
A person died in a collision with a Capitol Corridor train Thursday morning in Oakland, Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad officials said.
Stephen Kiesle, a notorious former Catholic priest twice convicted of child molestation, has been charged in a fatal crash that killed a man in Walnut Creek, authorities announced.
On the 4/20 marijuana holiday, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced it is seeking to shut down a cannabis business's nine diesel generators in East Oakland.
Police are seeking help from the public as they investigate the death of man who was found unconscious in West Oakland earlier this year.
A man was arrested for alleged battery on an Oakland Police officer as authorities cracked down on a large sideshow in East Oakland on Easter Sunday.
The neighborhood surrounding San Francisco's Chase Center has come alive with Warriors fever as Golden State is in the midst of the team's first playoff run since moving across the Bay three years ago.
Investigators announced Monday they had identified the mummified body found inside a wall at Oakland's Kaiser Convention Center last month.
Homicide detectives took to social media Sunday to renew their plea for the public's help in locating Laron Gilbert, who is wanted in connection with the shooting death of security guard Kevin Nishita, who was killed last November while protecting a news crew in Oakland.
Homicide detectives were investigating shootings Saturday morning that claimed the lives of two men in an East Oakland neighborhood.
Following the lead of districts across the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland officials said they would lift classroom COVID mask mandates at local schools on Monday.
An Alameda County judge ruled that five Oakland police officers who fatally shot a homeless man in 2018 were unjustly fired and should have kept their jobs.
Courtrooms in Alameda County Superior Court will reopen to the public later this month after being closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reviving the ancient call of beating swords into plowshares, Oakland police are using a gun buyback program to turn guns into gardening tools.
The Oakland Zoo has resumed patrols aimed at protecting baby herons near Lake Merritt for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
