BART Ups Patrols Around The Holidays
BART's police force wants to help you stay safe during the holiday season by increasing patrols and providing riders at certain stations with escorts to their cars over the next two weeks.
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BART's police force wants to help you stay safe during the holiday season by increasing patrols and providing riders at certain stations with escorts to their cars over the next two weeks.
The police captain who approved using beanbag projectiles against Occupy Oakland protesters and the SWAT officer who fired a beanbag round at a demonstrator have been reassigned during an investigation into the tactics.
Police have released a sketch of a suspect in a sexual assault that occurred in East Oakland earlier this month.
A group of angry parents has served recall notices to several board members of the Oakland Unified School District.
Plans are moving forward for a bike path on the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge although funding for the $500 million project has yet to be secured.
The group looking to recall Oakland Mayor Jean Quan needs to gather approximately 20,000 valid signatures by next May.
Operations were returning to normal at the Port of Oakland Tuesday morning after a daylong port blockade along the West Coast, port officials said.
Occupy protesters at Monday night's general assembly meeting voted to extend a blockade at the Port of Oakland through the early morning on Tuesday.
Newly released records show Oakland police approved using tear gas on protesters leading to a violent clash with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in late October.
The Battle of the Bay continues, and it has everything to do with the elected officials in charge of the cities vying for the Oakland A's baseball team.
Two were injured in separate East Oakland shootings only about eight blocks from each other on Sunday night, Oakland police said.
Protesters have planned to close all the ports on the West Coast on Monday.
Oakland police said a father of three was killed in bed near his sleeping wife and children when his house was sprayed with bullets in a drive-by shooting.
The Port of Oakland is planning a proactive approach with law enforcement to stay open on Monday when protesters attempt to shut it down for a second time.
One proponent of moving the Oakland A's to San Jose is calling Mayor Jean Quan's letter to MLB a too little, too late.
Oakland fire crews have controlled a one-alarm structure fire that broke out Saturday morning.
Police in Oakland were investigating what they say is a homicide that occurred early Saturday morning at a home just blocks from Highland Hospital.
A last-minute change in line-up brings in Bay Area rockers "Green Day" to save the day at Live 105's "Not So Silent Night" concert at the Oracle Arena in Oakland...
Hiram Lawrence, who would have turned 2 on Dec. 28, was pronounced dead at 3:05 p.m. Friday, the Rev. Roosevelt Taylor said.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is prepared to negotiate with MLB to keep the Oakland A's in her city and has two prospective sites for a new stadium.
Members of Occupy Oakland are calling for a second shutdown of the Port of Oakland and all West Coast ports on Monday, but they don't have full union support.
In the midst of a recall effort, a new KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll found the approval rating for Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has actually improved in recent weeks -- although a majority of residents still disapprove of her job performance.
The program's ultimate goal is to reduce the cancer risk for people who work and live in the port area, which is as much as 3 times greater than the rest of the Bay Area.
OUSD is the only school district in Northern California to receive such a grant, from the Federal Health Resources and Services Administration.
As federal authorities crack down on California's medical marijuana industry, an East Bay dispensary profiled on a reality TV show has added a new dimension to the debate.
