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BART is looking into the possibility of community service rather than financial restitution for 14 protesters who shut down the transit system at the West Oakland station on Black Friday, agency officials said this week.
CalTrans workers were scratching their heads when they spotted a man in a West Oakland homeless camp carrying around a human skull.
San Francisco Giants CEO and Olympic bid organizet Larry Baer joined KCBS's Stan Bunger and Susan Leigh Taylor to discuss Oakland's involvement in the bid that would include a new stadium that would host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the track and field competition.
Oakland Animal Services is launching a "Hard Luck Hounds" campaign to try to get people to adopt 12 dogs who have been at the shelter for more than two months.
On Thursday, the United States Olympic Committee could decide between the Bay Area and three other finalists as the nation's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. A newly-announced stadium plan, which would later be a home for the Oakland Raiders, could improve chances for a local bid.
BART's crime analyst is figuring out, from the times and locations of the crimes and surveillance video, the pattern of the thefts, and officers have been able to nab potential thieves.
About 100 people who were arrested in an anti-police brutality protest in Berkeley last month appeared in court Tuesday but charges haven't been filed against them.
Some of Libby Schaaf's most vocal critics gave her an earful even before she was sworn in at her inauguration ceremony Monday night.
The Safeway supermarket chain has been ordered to pay nearly $10 million for illegally dumping batteries, electronics and pharmaceuticals in California landfills.
Libby Schaaf was sworn into office Monday as Oakland's 50th mayor, saying, "It's hella time for Oakland."
A convicted felon has been charged with beating a man to death with a metal pipe near his East Oakland home last month, prosecutors said.
Two suspects were taken into custody after leading authorities on a pursuit on state Highway 24 and then colliding with two other motorists just west of the Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland Monday afternoon, a Contra Costa County sheriff's spokesman said.
As a result of frustrating contract talks with the school district, some Oakland school teachers on Monday will begin cutting back on their schedules and doing the bare minimum inside—and outside—the classroom.
In Oakland, unemployment is down, but still high. Homicides are down, but home invasions spiked. Now, questions about affordability are creeping into the conversations about Oakland.
The average unemployment rate in Oakland dropped to 9.4 percent in the third quarter of 2014 compared with 11.4 percent in the third quarter of 2013.
Fourteen #BlackLivesMatter protesters, who shut down the West Oakland BART train on Black Friday last year, said the transit agency is trying to make them pay restitution along with charged with criminal complaints.
An armed suspect was taken into custody at the 12th Street BART station following a brief foot pursuit Thursday evening
The California Highway Patrol Thursday morning is reporting a fatal crash on Interstate Highway 580 in Oakland.
Oakland police said at least 29 people were arrested Wednesday night following protests in downtown Oakland.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said Wednesday that violent crime in her city has decreased by a "significant" amount this year for the second consecutive year.
Caltrans is threatening to fine American Bridge/Fluor daily as long as the work on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is incomplete.
Raiders ended their season Sunday with a disappointing 3 and 13 record leaving fans without a whole to cheer for. But there's something else that has many fans literally up on their feet dancing at the Oakland Coliseum.
Twitter users took to social media to document some of the destruction from Tuesday's powerful Bay Area windstorm.
