Oakland Guerrilla Gardener Beautifies the Streets
An Oakland guerrilla gardener is making the street medians in Oakland beautiful simply for the love of his neighborhood.
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An Oakland guerrilla gardener is making the street medians in Oakland beautiful simply for the love of his neighborhood.
When a ship from China arrives by next Monday, Caltrans crews will have all of the components in place to assemble the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge.
The former leader of the Oakland community group known as Your Black Muslim Bakery will spend the rest of his life in prison for ordering the killings of three men, including a local journalist.
Two shootings in West Oakland Tuesday night and Wednesday morning left one person dead and a man injured, according to police.
The northbound Interstate 880 connector to eastbound Interstate 80 in Oakland will be closed late Friday night, according to Caltrans.
A man who was fatally shot in East Oakland early Tuesday was identified Thursday as 18-year-old Evan Chapman of Oakland after someone recognized him from photos of his tattoos and called police.
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Groups held a protest outside Oakland Unified School District headquarters Wednesday to demand that the district's acting police chief be fired because he was involved in the fatal shooting of a suspect earlier this year.
Teray Frederick has transformed her Hayward home into a headquarters for giving. As her two daughters neared adulthood, she made a new commitment to serve her community.
An Oakland man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder for a shooting at a restaurant near Jack London Square in April that left two people dead and five people wounded.
Construction has resumed on the new control tower at Oakland International Airport. U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, D-California, who came to the airport Tuesday, warned that work could stop again unless Congress meets another funding deadline for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Several shootings that occurred in Oakland between Monday night and Tuesday morning that left one man dead and four other men hospitalized don't appear to be related, a police spokeswoman said.
The city of Oakland's new police radio system is still not working properly, two months after being installed, and the president of the Oakland Police Officers Association (POA) is worried public safety will be compromised until the radios are fixed.
An Oakland man was sentenced Monday to three consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting three in-laws at an apartment complex on Thanksgiving Day 2006.
A $10,000 reward has been offered to help catch the gunman who shot a 2-year-old boy on Saturday in Oakland.
Luis Perez pitched brilliantly in his first big league start, combining with Casey Janssen on a one-hitter, and Jose Bautista connected for his majors-best 36th home run to send the Toronto Blue Jays over the Oakland Athletics 1-0 Sunday.
Two separate shootings in Oakland sent two people to the hospital Saturday night, police said.
Two people were shot in an early morning shooting in West Oakland, an Oakland police officer said.
An elderly woman injured in a two-alarm house fire in Oakland on Thursday night succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in San Francisco Friday morning, fire and hospital officials said.
The Oakland Police Department is alerting residents about an increase of street robberies that target people wearing gold chains.
Responding to heavy criticism and threats of litigation, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission on Wednesday rescinded its July 27th vote to move headquarters from Oakland to San Francisco.
The police chief for the Oakland Unified School District abruptly announced his retirement Wednesday after coming under fire for allegedly using racial slurs.
Her proposal would maintain the current levels for the Transportation Trust Fund for the next two years.
Oakland's City Council president is among two councilmen calling for a curfew for teenagers and an expansion of the city's gang injunction efforts in the wake of the shooting death of a 3-year-old boy.
Hundreds of customers wait in line every day to get their hands on the legendary fried chicken sandwich at the popular Oakland shop.
