Oakland CA

A flight leaving Oakland was delayed an hour Thursday as flight crews discussed how to accommodate a high-maintenance traveler: “Bebop,” a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot.

Bartholomew Drawsand died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a hit-and-run collision two days prior on a residential street in East Oakland, officials said.

Berkeley is the rare dinner town where what's on your plate often arrived from a small farm that morning, and where the dining room actually lets you taste it. If you want a meal that feels nourishing rather than performative — quiet enough to hear your own thoughts, intentional enough that the kitchen can name every grower — these five spots are the cleanest place to...

Biscuit lovers, this is your Oakland wake-up call. Word got out when Town Biscuits started turning out what local writers call “Oakland’s flakiest, most buttery biscuit”, and breakfast fans realized the city finally had a Southern-style biscuit experience worth setting an alarm for. Soon the tiny spot...

A traveling band on a Bay Area tour stop had its U-Haul with all their musical equipment inside stolen from an Oakland hotel parking lot.

Even at a very early age growing up in Orinda, it was clear that Maxine Sharf loved food. “My mom always tells the story of when I was a baby,” Sharf says. “She was with my grandma, and she fed me a banana and I wanted more. So they fed me another one, and then they fed me a third banana. [Finally], my grandma...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A band scheduled to perform across California is reeling after thieves in Oakland stole a rental truck with their instruments and equipment. "As far as what was in the U-Haul, it was everything for our touring party," said Andria Mattson of Moonchild, a Los Angeles-based neo-soul jazz band. "It was our musical instruments, our stage design, lighting gear, and...

If you have young kids and you're trying to plan summer weekends that don't end in meltdowns, the East Bay's free and low-cost cultural festivals are honestly the best play. From mid-May through late August 2026, there are six standouts that have proper kids' zones, walkable layouts, and food the whole family will actually eat. Here's the practical lineup, sorted by date...

More than two dozen memorial plaques honoring loved ones were stolen from a popular Alameda park, raising concern among families and park advocates who fear the thefts may be part of a growing trend. The missing plaques were discovered at Jean Sweeney Open Space Park, where nearly every bench once featured a bronze marker dedicated to a family member.

About 170 residents in a Bay Area neighborhood remained without drinkable tap water Thursday, nearly a week after regulators issued a “Do Not Drink” order due to a water main contamination incident.