BART Service Restored After Big Rig Crashes Into Oakland Power Pole
A truck plows into a power pole at the Port of Oakland near 7th and Maritime Streets.
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A truck plows into a power pole at the Port of Oakland near 7th and Maritime Streets.
A man was fatally shot Monday night while he was sitting in a car in East Oakland, police said.
Alameda County auditor-controller candidate Kathleen Knox, who faces six felony counts for allegedly lying about where she lives, has withdrawn from the race.
An increase in price during peak morning commute hours doesn't appear to be stopping people from crossing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
The California Highway Patrol's Oakland division says a small cat was spotted jumping into the wheel well of a car that was topped in traffic Monday morning.
Successful gang interventions and an improving economy are among changes Oakland city officials are attributing for a dip in violent crime.
An 8-year-old girl is in critical condition after being struck in the neck by a stray bullet during a drive-by shooting outside her Oakland home on Friday.
In the inner city, a health problem is making it harder for young people to learn. The Centers for Disease Control said 30 percent of inner-city kids suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a medical condition that some observers outside the urban core have taken to calling "hood disease."
A girl and an adult male were shot Friday evening in Oakland, according to police.
After receiving death threats, a Bay Area tree trimmer who was blamed for harming birds during a trimming job in Oakland is trying to smooth ruffled feathers.
The historic California Hotel in West Oakland has officially reopened for business, following a three-year renovation.
A new concern has arisen with some of the bolts used on the new $6.5 billion eastern span of the Bay Bridge. There is now an alignment problem with some of the bolts that attach the main cable on the east side to the deck of the span.
The city hopes to fix thousands of potholes over the next several weeks, part of an annual blitz to fix the streets of Oakland.
Fast-food workers throughout Oakland are walking off the job and joining in on a worldwide campaign Thursday to ask for higher pay and the right to form a union.
The FBI agent who fatally shot the friend of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect in Florida last year had a brief and rocky history at the Oakland Police Department, according to a Boston Globe report.
Bay Area fast food workers planned to participate in a nationwide strike Thursday to protest low wages.
The Bay Area saw record high temperatures in several places Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Downtown San Francisco saw temperatures reach 88 degrees, surpassing the previous record of 87 degrees set in 1922.
Whent was named interim chief last May and has been seen as one of the leading candidates to head the department.
A new overnight transportation service is set to launch this month targeting late-night revelers on both sides of the bay in order to get them home safely.
Eight months after opening to traffic, a new metal troll was secretly installed last week to protect travelers on the new Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge.
Federal officials say no endangered birds died in a wood chipper this month as a company trimmed trees outside an Oakland post office
Oakland police are seeking the public's help in locating a 7-year-old girl missing since Monday evening.
A dead dog left just feet away from a cluster of mailboxes in East Oakland was left for nearly a week before being cleaned up by animal control, but even then, the grisly task wasn't complete, as KPIX 5 discovered Tuesday.
When Alejandro Arechiga earned a scholarship to the prestigious College Prep High School in Oakland, it was like winning the lottery. He shares a two-bedroom apartment with five people and his single mom works very long hours as a house cleaner, often unable to afford food, tutoring, and school supplies, but now he is rising above. "She comes home tired and it's like, it's been so many years of the same thing going on, just work and work and work," Alejandro recalls. "It just definitely makes me want to strive to be better so I can help her out."
An off-ramp from southbound Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland has reopened after being shut down for over three hours while officers searched for a fleeing robbery suspect, the California Highway Patrol said.
