Proposal Inspired By Oakland Moms 4 Housing Targets Vacant Homes To Tackle Crisis
Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow local jurisdictions to use vacant single-family homes as affordable housing.
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Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow local jurisdictions to use vacant single-family homes as affordable housing.
One of two suspects, captured on home video pulling off a violent daylight robbery at gunpoint in Oakland's Dimond district, has been captured in Los Banos, authorities said.
The activist women known as Moms 4 Housing were recognized as Black History Month honorees at the Oakland City Council meeting Tuesday night.
In major U.S. cities, Asian American businesses are seeing a remarkable decline in customers as fear about the viral outbreak from China spreads.
The activist women known as Moms 4 Housing will be among those recognized as Black History Month honorees when the Oakland City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, council President Rebecca Kaplan announced.
Nia Wilson's accused killer John Cowell was removed from his murder trial Thursday after yelling out vulgarities when prosecutors began to show a surveillance video of the fatal attack to jurors.
Some Oakland students have embraced the challenging opportunity to speak before a crowd and now their talents are featured in a new HBO documentary titled "We Are The Dream."
A violent daylight robbery at gunpoint, caught on camera in Oakland's Dimond district, has neighbors on edge.
Health officials in Alameda County are trying to assuage fears over the novel coronavirus outbreak by holding a workshop Tuesday evening to prevent panic. Businesses in Oakland's Chinatown have reported sales drops.
In a series of bizarre ramblings from the witness stand, John Lee Cowell, who is accused of stabbing to death Nia Wilson on the MacArthur BART station platform, told jurors he hears voices from alien technology implanted in his ear.
An Oakland teenager has been arrested after he allegedly ran over a woman with his Honda Accord on a San Francisco street early Tuesday morning following an altercation, authorities said.
Tears flowed in an Oakland courtroom as Nia Wilson's sisters took the stand to emotionally describe for jurors the struggle to save the dying 18-year-old's life on the MacArthur BART station platform.
On Monday, BART riders got to meet representatives with the transit agency's new "ambassador" program that is aimed at improving security.
One person was killed and another taken to the hospital suffering from smoke inhalation early Monday in a fire that damaged two homes in Oakland, authorities said.
Two juveniles were arrested after a police chase through Benicia and Martinez Friday night, both suspects in an armed robbery and carjacking in Vallejo
Oakland police sought the public's help Friday as they try to solve the mystery of who gunned down Edward Childress and Larry D. Lovette in pair of January 2013 fatal shootings.
A former BART police officer testified Thursday how he unsuccessfully tried to save the life of 18-year-old Nia Wilson after she was stabbed on the platform of the MacArthur BART station in Oakland in 2018.
Bullets riddled the red Chevrolet Cavalier. The driver side window was shattered and the flurry of shots left four bullet holes in the side of the car. Miraculously, the driver escaped with just a case of shattered nerves.
Authorities in Oakland late Wednesday night were investigating a shooting on the 23rd Avenue on-ramp to I-880 that temporarily closed the northbound lanes of the freeway.
Hours after President Trump was acquitted in the senate impeachment trial, protesters took to the streets across the Bay Area, from San Jose to Oakland to San Francisco.
A man driving a stolen car was arrested Wednesday in Oakland after police found him sleeping in the car with a loaded gun on his lap, police said.
An 18-year-old student was charged with special circumstances murder on Monday for his role in the death of a man who tried to get back his laptop computer, which was stolen while he worked in a coffee shop in Oakland's Montclair district last month.
All lanes on Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland after being closed following a collision involving a big-rig early Monday morning, California Highway Patrol official said.
Oakland police announced the arrest of a third suspect in the killing of a man who had his laptop stolen while he sat in a coffee shop and who died when he injured chasing the robbers.
The attorney for Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Almena said on Friday that he and Almena are ready for a second trial on 36 involuntary manslaughter charges for a fire at the Oakland building in 2016 that killed 36 people.
