Oakland Keeping Extra $316K From Overpaid Parking Tickets, Despite State Law
An audit shows Oakland is keeping cash from overpaid parking tickets despite a state law requiring refunds.
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An audit shows Oakland is keeping cash from overpaid parking tickets despite a state law requiring refunds.
A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco is considering whether to allow California's largest medical marijuana dispensary to continue to operate in Oakland while that city battles a federal effort to shut down the facility.
Oakland police said Thursday that they are urging witnesses to come forward to help solve the fatal shooting of a woman who was struck by errant gunfire on a busy street in East Oakland Wednesday night.
The number of homicides in San Francisco this year has outpaced 2011, a problem San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said requires a comprehensive solution.
Gun buyback events in San Francisco and Oakland proved to be more popular than originally planned, netting more than 600 guns over the weekend at $200 a piece.
A hazardous materials scare has shut down a post office in Oakland's Laurel District Wednesday morning, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman said.
Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire that blazed in a stolen vehicle before spreading to a commercial building and resulting in the hospitalization of a security guard due to smoke inhalation early Wednesday morning, according to an Oakland fire battalion chief.
Family members of two teenage girls who were brutally gunned down near Brookdale Park in East Oakland three weeks ago reacted emotionally Tuesday when the two suspects in their deaths appeared in court.
Two men were charged with two counts of murder Tuesday for the brutal shooting deaths of two teenage girls near Brookdale Park in East Oakland three weeks ago.
Nearly 300 guns were brought to the event on Saturday at the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco on Saturday while about 300 more were brought to Saint Benedict's Church in Oakland.
Firefighters were responding to a fire at an apartment building in Oakland Monday morning, a dispatcher said.
Police were looking for two suspects in connection with a shooting in Oakland Sunday night, police said.
Be sure to pack a Raiders-themed stocking and wreath before heading to the Coliseum.
In the wake of 27 people, including 20 children, being gunned down at a Newton, Connecticut elementary school, security was stepped up and counseling services were made available at schools throughout the Bay Area on Friday.
The buyback on Saturday will offer $200 each for up to three weapons per person. Only gun owners with verified residence in either San Francisco or Oakland qualify.
Tucked away in the heart of Oakland's Chinatown, something very special is brewing. It's the Yu Ming Charter School. It is now just two years old and already 150-plus students strong.
Bay Area Rapid Transit riders can expect to see more police officers in stations, and on trains starting Thursday.
Power was restored to lights on both spans of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after an outage Tuesday night.
Two audits are raising questions about nearly $200,000 in employee expenses at one of the nation's largest ports, which was recently embroiled in a strip club spending scandal.
Two armed robbery suspects were arrested but one evaded capture in a search of an East Oakland neighborhood Monday afternoon, police said.
An Oakland man was charged with murder Monday for the shooting death of his girlfriend Friday night.
A 16-year-old Oakland boy pleaded guilty in adult court Monday to two counts of murder for killing his adoptive parents in January.
Oakland police were investigating 3 homicides this weekend.
Eight suspects were taken into custody late Thursday night after Oakland police served a search warrant in East Oakland, police said.
A cancer-causing chemical banned more than three decades ago is turning up in baby products found nationwide.
