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Following Oakland's lead, San Francisco officials unveiled a list of 11 city streets that will be partially shutdown to through traffic to allow residents to take walks while maintaining social distancing until the current coronavirus shelter in place order.
The East Bay SPCA this week is offering another pet food pantry to residents that need help feeding their dogs or cats during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Oakland's expected revenue may fall short of the city's planned spending by $80 million over the next 14 months unless the city council does something quick.
A man who had been arrested for car theft in Oakland - and then released on court-ordered zero bail because of the coronavirus pandemic - was arrested just minutes later in Dublin for carjacking and a second attempted carjacking, according to the sheriff's office.
Peter Limata, a first-grade teacher at Emerson Elementary School in Oakland, opens his Facebook Live story-time sessions Romper Room-style, bidding a buoyant good morning to each name that pops up on his screen.
Hundreds have been placed in hotels, but some critics say the effort to combat coronavirus among Oakland's homeless is not moving fast enough.
Despite even tougher coronavirus shelter-in-place orders, large crowds gathered at two illegal sideshows on the streets of Oakland Saturday night.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and other regional leaders announced Friday that they've formed an emergency task force to address what they say are the racialized impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus and create state legislation to reduce health disparities for people of color.
Two Oakland Unified School District employees or volunteers who are involved in the district's food and device distribution programs have tested positive for the new coronavirus, school officials said Friday.
Oakland police officers were in a standoff with the occupants of a car involved in a solo crash after a firearm was spotted in the vehicle, authorities said.
Oakland city councilmember Rebecca Kaplan late Wednesday asked Governor Newsom, other city leaders and Alameda County officials to provide safe places for Oakland's homeless to shelter in place amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Oakland city officials are asking the community to provide feedback on its plans for expanding the "Oakland Slow Streets" program
The Indoor Football League announced Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the cancellation of its 2020 season, which was slated to be the first with a team from Oakland.
A Oakland man was charged with multiple counts of statutory rape and lewd acts with a child under 14, police said.
Authorities in Oakland have reopened northbound I-880 after closing lanes for about an hour to investigate a shooting that left two people injured, according to the CHP.
With most people staying home during the shelter-in-place, police departments in the Bay Area's largest cities are reporting significant declines in violent crime.
The City of Oakland unveiled a new initiative Friday to close a number of streets to motorized vehicle traffic and designate them for pedestrians, bicyclists and wheelchair users.
A report of a pipe bomb found in a shopping cart at an Oakland grocery store Friday morning prompted an evacuation.
Two ex-convicts, including one who allegedly wasn't following shelter-in-place orders, appeared in court on murder charges on Tuesday for allegedly fatally shooting a man in East Oakland last December.
With widespread school closures confirmed through the rest of the year, teachers and administrators across the Oakland Unified School District are facing new challenges that come with virtual teaching and learning.
A man has been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident and other charges for a collision in East Oakland that killed one pedestrian and injured three others.
Fire officials credit a quick fire attack with keeping a blaze at a home in Oakland's Foothill neighborhood to just one unit on Sunday night.
Three people, including a two-year-old child, suffered moderate injuries in a shooting on Interstate Highway 580 in Oakland, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced on Friday that she's appointed former San Francisco transportation chief Edward Reiskin to be her city's new permanent city administrator.
As the Grand Princess remained moored in San Francisco Bay Friday, a coalition of local community groups announced that among the 74 lives claimed regionally by the coronavirus was a crewmember from the Philippines.
