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Residents and businesses in Oakland's Chinatown say their neighborhood is under siege from increasingly violent robberies, but the response has turned into a showdown over police resources as the city faces a massive budget deficit.
The move by the City of Oakland to mandate hazard pay for grocery store workers has prompted a lawsuit from an industry group.The move by the City of Oakland to mandate hazard pay for grocery store workers has prompted a lawsuit from an industry group.
Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled plans Wednesday for a massive COVID-19 vaccination site at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum -- a joint venture between state and federal health officials.
An Oakland scrap metal recycler will pay $4.1 million to settle a lawsuit by Alameda County and the State of California alleging the company has allowed hazardous waste to pollute surrounding areas of West Oakland and the Oakland Estuary.
Oakland city councilmembers voted unanimously Tuesday to force large grocery stores to raise some workers' pay by $5 per hour.
A group in Oakland is providing a new way for people to celebrate Black history and Black culture this month.
Police are investigating the unexplained death of a 2-year-old boy Sunday in East Oakland.
With Lunar New Year approaching this week, Oakland police said they have been warning residents that robberies and burglaries are on the rise in the city's Chinatown.
The Oakland Police Department released alarming new crime numbers Monday morning indicating that this was the deadliest January in two decades with 15 homicides in the past month, marking a 1,400% increase over January of last year.
The former Oakland Raiders training facility and headquarters in Alameda may soon be up for sale.
Two men suspected in a nearly a dozen of armed robberies at cellphone stores in Oakland have been arrested, police announced Thursday.
The city of Oakland recently took its first steps towards bettering equity in its contracting following a race and gender disparity study released in November.
BART and the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority unveiled a plan Wednesday to build a second transbay rail crossing and increase rail connection throughout the Bay Area and Northern California.
The coroner's bureau said Adolfo Gonzalez, 55, died Sunday following a hit-and-run crash in the 10200 block of San Leandro Street, last week.
A man from outside of Oakland was shot and killed Monday night in the city's western neighborhoods, police said Tuesday.
Police responded to a shooting in West Oakland that left one person dead, and another injured.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) was named the Chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee on State and Foreign Affairs (SFOPS).
Derick Almena, the master leaseholder of the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse which burned in a December 2016 fire that killed 36 people, accepted a plea deal Friday morning that would avoid a second trial and likely any prison time.
A patient who was admitted more than a month ago and in the intensive care unit at Highland Hospital in Oakland has been identified.
Two people were displaced by a fire that burned a recreational vehicle and two cars Friday morning on Caltrans property in West Oakland, fire officials said.
Alameda County Sheriff's deputies and Oakland police officers called on county health officials to take action in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to law enforcement.
Officials at Highland Hospital in Oakland are seeking the public's help in identifying a patient who was admitted more than a month ago and is currently in the intensive care unit.
When Vice President Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman of color to ever hold the job she made history and in doing so, she kept her own history close at hand.
A person died after being shot Wednesday morning in East Oakland, police said.
Hope and celebration were expressed by state and Bay Area elected leaders following the inauguration of now U.S. President Joseph Biden and Oakland native Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday.
