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The City of Oakland has announced an incentive program to attract property owners to participate in a federally funded effort to house the homeless. But even though the money is there, it still may be a tough sell.
Early Monday evening, Santa Cruz County announced that areas of the CZU burn scar, Felton Grove and Paradise Park were under an evacuation warning due to the heavy rains from the atmospheric river stalled over the San Francisco Bay Area.
A West Oakland resident is without a place to live following a fire early Monday morning that destroyed an in-law unit, fire officials said.
A 40-year-old man with major trauma was found dead on an Oakland sidewalk early Monday, the city's 131st homicide of the year.
A 15-year-old is being held at Alameda County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of stabbing his father to death at their home in East Oakland on Thursday night.
Police in Oakland are investigating the armed carjacking of a UPS truck by two suspects that happened Friday morning.
A 31-year-old Oakland man has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for committing five armed robberies or attempted robberies of U.S Postal Service letter carriers in East Oakland last year including stealing mail containing California Employment Development Department debit cards.
Family, friends and former colleagues from several Bay Area police departments gathered Thursday morning to remember Kevin Nishita, a beloved security guard and former police sergeant who lost his life while protecting a news crews from a gunman in Oakland.
A woman was shot late Thursday morning along International Boulevard in East Oakland, police said.
Berkeley police arrested an Oakland man Wednesday night suspected in a November vehicle shooting near the Berkeley-Oakland border.
An Oakland man was sentenced to federal prison after being convicted in a sexual extortion scheme targeting teens on Instagram, federal prosecutors say.
A Capitol Corridor train collided with a vehicle in Oakland Thursday morning, a Capitol Corridor official said.
Oakland is now moving to hire more police officers in hopes of reversing a dramatic rise in homicides. But with crime comes other problems, and Oakland business leaders say it is hurting their recovery.
A legal wrangling is settled over the cost of bringing recycling bins to the curb at multi-family buildings in Oakland, according to the City Attorney's Office.
A non-profit healthcare clinic that provided free COVID-19 vaccinations and testing to walk-up patients in Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza unexpectedly closed its doors Wednesday due to staffing and vaccine shortages.
The Oakland City Council voted to fund two more academies to add 60 more officers to help bring the department back to the 737 authorized positions.
Oakland Police said Tuesday that gunfire struck a person who was driving along West MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland the night before.
The Anti-Police Terror Project believes the police department can shift resources away from non-violent calls to address homicides instead of adding more officers.
An Oakland woman suspected of organized retail theft was arrested Sunday in Walnut Creek and police recovered about $2,000 in stolen merchandise.
A report released late Monday afternoon by a public safety advocacy group says Oakland police do not have a staffing problem as elected city leaders have been saying but a mismanagement problem.
An arson investigation has been launched after the Christmas tree at Oakland's Jack London Square was partially damaged in a fire early Monday morning.
A 41-year-old man who died following a fall from a bicycle Sunday afternoon in Shepherd Canyon Park in Oakland was Jamal Thompson, according to police and the Alameda County coroner's bureau.
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the Oakland-based mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays.
Two of the premiere prog-metal bands working today shared the stage at the Fox Theater in Oakland when Mastodon and Opeth brought their co-headlining tour to the Bay Area Thursday night.
Oakland's mayor unveiled a plan Friday to reduce violence across the city by spending more money to fill vacant police officer positions.
