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Last Thursday, Oakland police and their federal and local partners moved in on what they say was a suspected illegal gambling operation in East Oakland, serving a search warrant on a property in the 1400 block of 17th Avenue that investigators had linked to a recent shooting. The enforcement action...

Bay Area Rapid Transit — or BART — was a brand new, cutting-edge transportation system when it opened in 1972. Since then, its reputation has become a bit less high-tech. And while riders hear a variety of voices making announcements throughout the BART system, there are two that sound different — robotic, synthesized voices, one male and one female, that sound like they are from...

The Berkeley fixture has been hit with back-to-back lawsuits in recent months.

Around 3 a.m. on a Saturday in July 2024, a resident of an apartment building in Oakland’s Koreatown Northgate neighborhood woke up to commotion outside. The resident, who asked not to be named due to fears of retaliation, walked out and began recording the early-morning chaos on their phone. The video, reviewed by The Oaklandside, showed several people lined up in front of...

NOVATO,CA — Police responding to a vehicle theft in progress arrested Eric Ramirez, 20, of. Oakland, following a high-speed pursuit on April 4. Three other male suspects involved (ages. 18 to 22) remain at large, pending identification of fingerprints evidence recovered from the. stolen vehicle. Ramirez was apprehended at...

Vinnie’s Bar and Grill Brentwood is set to open a second location this summer, called Vinnie's Emporium

Actor and comic Jamie Foxx is returning to Oakland, where he launched his career, to film an upcoming Hulu special over two nights of stand-up.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland police on Monday announced they busted an illegal gambling operation in the East Peralta area last week. The Oakland Police Department said officers, in cooperation with federal authorities, executed a search warrant at the alleged gambling operation in the 1400 block of 17th Avenue on Thursday, according to a department statement.

SACRAMENTO, California - The last defendant in the largest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California has been sentenced, according to U.S. Attorney Eric Grant. Ronald J. Roach, a 59-year-old from Walnut Creek, was sentenced to 66 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd. Roach, along with co-defendant Joseph Bayliss, was among the first...

Sometimes reality can be a lot stranger than fiction. Just take all the recent technological breakthroughs coming out of Silicon Valley, for instance. Just 10 years ago, AI, self-driving cars, and robots were considered fodder for science fiction. But now, they are mainstays of the San Francisco Bay Area. At...