Oakland CA

Oakland is in a full-on parking power struggle, and it is not just about meters and tickets. A city plan to move parking enforcement out of the transportation department has set up an unusual standoff among city staff, transit advocates, business groups and unions over a deceptively simple question: Is parking policy...

Emery Unified School District and a former staffer are facing a new lawsuit that says the district failed, again, to protect students from repeated sexual misconduct at Emery High. The complaint alleges that a volleyball coach and campus security worker used school events and social media to groom and sexually...

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The City of Oakland is seeking to quickly move most of its parking division staff from the Department of Transportation to the Finance Department, despite concern from business leaders, road safety advocates and city employees. In a report released last Friday, Bradley Johnson, the city’s new finance director, said...

When the last 200 feet of the four-mile cross-Alameda trail was opened, Streetsblog was quick to celebrate that latest accomplishment from the island city of Alameda. Now the city announced it is getting national recognition as well, from the League of American Bicyclists. From a recent statement:. The City of...

Three people, including a bank employee, have been charged in connection with a robbery scheme that targeted bank customers who had just made large withdrawals, California authorities said. The Marin County Sheriff’s Office said the investigation began when deputies responded to a report of an armed robbery in a...

Moraga police received a report of a possible burglary at the Golden Palace restaurant on Monday afternoon at about 5 p.m., Chief Jon King confirmed Friday. King said officers responded to the restaurant, 581 Moraga Road, and found that one of the glass entrance doors had been smashed and the business ransacked.

While West Oakland in the late 80s sounded like a sketchy place to live, it inspired a pop punk classic

SAN BRUNO, Calif. - A shooting and structure fire in a residential area of San Bruno prompted a response from police and the fire department on Friday. Officials initially called the scene at the 100 block of Keefe Court an "active incident". The structure appeared to be completely decimated by the fire that had...

Police arrested a Southern California woman this week in connection with a shooting at an apartment complex in South Berkeley last month. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has charged the 23-year-old, from Vista in San Diego County, with burglary, gun crimes and several enhancements related to the Jan. 17...