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A year to the day after he was arrested for throwing bricks at San Francisco police officers, a protester was sentenced Wednesday to two years in state prison for a felony assault charge, prosecutors said.
Seven people camping in trees to protest construction of a Highway 101 bypass in Mendocino County were arrested Tuesday by dozens of California Highway Patrol officers who were lifted into the trees on cherry-pickers.
Thirty-seven protesters were arrested outside the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory during an annual Good Friday demonstration against the lab's involvement in developing nuclear weapons.
Police say activists protesting capitalism broke windows and vandalized ATMs at several banks in downtown Oakland.
Dozens of angry protesters, which included members of the Black Panthers, took over the Vallejo City Council meeting on Tuesday night -- causing elected leaders to flee to the rear of council chambers and hide.
Organizers said the members of 65 San Francisco Bay area groups including the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and 350.org took part in the rally, which coincided with a demonstration in Washington, D.C.
Nudists were planning a clothing-optional protest Friday at San Francisco City Hall as a new nudity ban adopted by supervisors last year becomes effective.
The fate of San Francisco's ban on nudity remains unclear after a federal judge decided to take the matter under submission during a hearing Thursday.
Emotions ran high at Oakland City Hall on Tuesday night as dozens of people spoke out against a controversial plan to bring a former Los Angeles and New York police chief in to advise Oakland's Police Department.
A protest in a store in San Francisco's Castro District turned ugly when the group was met by angry employees.
San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co. has committed to eliminating hazardous chemicals in the manufacturing of its products by 2020 following a Greenpeace-organized protest at its headquarters Wednesday morning.
Occupy demonstrators and housing advocates and briefly took over a Wells Fargo Bank branch in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood Thursday as part of a protest denouncing foreclosure.
A ban on nudity in San Francisco was given final approval by the city's Board of Supervisors Tuesday in a raucous meeting at which several people stripped naked in board chambers.
Students who barricaded themselves inside of a vacant University of California at Berkeley building Tuesday evening to demand support for minority programs on campus ended their occupation after several hours.
Wal-Mart workers and supporters were protesting at a number of stores nationwide and throughout the Bay Area, blasting the wages, benefits and treatment of employees of the world's largest retailer.
About 20 people gathered in front of the Oakland Walmart store on Edgewater Drive Wednesday to protest and demand better pay and work schedules.
Hundreds of students at UC Berkeley walked out of class and marched in the rain Thursday, demanding that their tuition go down following the passage of Proposition 30.
The Bay Area's newest Chick-fil-A restaurant opened its doors in Walnut Creek Thursday morning, ushering in hungry patrons while protesters outside continued to demonstrate against the company's stance on same-sex marriage.
Nurses at a Sonoma County hospital walked off the job in a three-day strike to protest wages and other issues.
The City of Oakland and its Police Department are fully aware of the planned Occupy Oakland protest on Thursday, and they are prepared for whatever comes of it.
Police arrested about 20 protesters who entered and occupied a vacant building in San Francisco's Castro District Wednesday night.
Crews Monday were cleaning up the damage left by protesters who smashed windows and threw paint at a number of buildings in downtown Oakland on Sunday night.
The installation of the new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco Thurday will come amid protests about his role in California's Proposition 8 campaign in 2008.
Federal officials are investigating anti-Semitism allegations at the University of California, Berkeley.
Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have banned agencies from disrupting cellphone service without a court order.
