President Obama Deploys Labor Secretary To Intervene In West Coast Port Dispute
The nation's top labor official was scheduled to arrive in the Bay Area Monday to sit down with both sides of the contentious west coast port dispute sometime tomorrow.
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The nation's top labor official was scheduled to arrive in the Bay Area Monday to sit down with both sides of the contentious west coast port dispute sometime tomorrow.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says the city would be willing to entertain First Fridays street arts festival's requests for financial help, but the city is dealing with its own money problems.
A van full of passengers was stuck in the SF bay after the tide caught them by surprise.
The fire caused an estimated $1 million in damage to the cafeteria at Claremont Middle School in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.
Oakland fire crews said a two-alarm fire aboard a ship berthed at the Port of Oakland is under control Sunday evening, according to the department's official Twitter account.
Many businesses are reeling and now, the President plans to send Secretary of Labor Tom Perez to California to encourage both sides of the bargaining table to strike a deal.
An Oakland police officer shot an allegedly knife-wielding man in East Oakland Friday morning, police said.
The country's first caffeine-infused cat cafe is keeping busy in downtown Oakland.
A pit bull found wandering far from home on Interstate 880 by California Highway Patrol officers earlier this week was reunited with her owner on Thursday.
His music was enough to grant him the prize, but upon hearing Dphrepaulezz's story, he seems all the more deserving.
While the Oakland Raiders have vowed not to pay their the O.Co Coliseum rent for last year's season, Mayor Libby Schaaf said she isn't concerned neither should fans.
The alleged owner of a chain of medical marijuana clinics faces criminal charges in one of the first cases of its kind in the state. Prosecutors said it's a criminal enterprise, a prescription mill generating millions of dollars, with most of the money laundered and sent overseas.
A new KPIX 5 / SurveyUSA poll found many in the Bay Area want charges upheld against 14 protesters who blocked a BART train on Black Friday, causing major delays. The poll comes amid a push among the protesters and some BART officials to drop the case.
The Port of Oakland, along with 28 other West Coast seaports, will be mostly closed four of the next five days because of an ongoing labor dispute.
After the recent Black Lives Matter protests, there is a new brownie troop in Oakland. Instead of selling cookies, they are spreading a message.
The books and papers sit in stacks on the floor in the library at Fremont High in East Oakland, while many of the shelves are empty. It's been shut down for more than six years.
Crews are working to clear trees and power lines that were knocked down in this weekend's Bay Area storm.
Operations at West Coast ports, including Oakland, are expected to resume Monday morning after a weekend shutdown that was the latest turn in an on-going labor dispute.
The Oakland Police Department Sunday released a sketch of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy last month.
Arriving officers found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound and rendered aid but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A two-alarm fire at a triplex near Oakland's San Antonio Park that displaced 14 adults early Sunday morning has been deemed suspicious, a fire battalion chief said.
Teachers at about 20 Oakland public schools are working the minimum number of required hours in a labor action to protest the slow pace of contract negotiations, teacher union president Trish Gorham said Friday.
Some port operations on the West Coast--including at the Port of Oakland--will be temporarily suspended this weekend because of the on-going labor dispute between port operators and union workers.
Father Aidan McAleenan is pastor of St. Columba's Catholic Church in Oakland. At Christmastime, he was contacted by a stranger who said he wanted to donate some money.
Shipping companies and dockworkers are stepping up their rhetoric as contract talks for workers at 30 West Coast ports, including those in the Bay Area, have dragged into a ninth month.
