Oakland CA

On Thursday, December 18, at around 2 p.m., a woman parked her sports utility vehicle on Connecticut Street, just south of 17th Street, to take laundry out of the trunk. Her baby daughter was in the back seat. According to her stepson, a man abruptly entered the driver’s side of the SUV, smearing blood on a window in...

A 40-year-old man is charged with shooting and killing three people at the Sky Market corner store in Oakland's Woodland neighborhood, and the whole dispute was apparently an illicit marijuana deal gone wrong. When everyone returned to work after the New Year’s Day holiday, we noted that there had been...

Luke Brugnara, who was convicted 11 years ago in a federal case involving an $11 million art fraud, told Daly City police that he directed the fence to be built.

The homey restaurant is back after closing in 2024 — and so are its wonderful home-style Mexican stews.

OAKLAND, Calif. - A large fire broke out early Tuesday morning in Berkeley, where flames and smoke could be seen from Interstate Highway 80. The fire, called in at two alarms, was reported shortly after 4:30 a.m. at Second and Page streets near the Gillman exit. The building appears to...

A 55-year-old Oakland man is facing felony charges after authorities say he set a device next to a car occupied by two people earlier this month, then walked away as it detonated, shattering the windshield and injuring one of the occupants. Police found the man nearby and booked him, and prosecutors allege he...

There’s something almost spiritual about the perfect bite of barbecue – that transcendent moment when smoke, meat, and time collapse into a single, flavor-packed morsel that makes you close your eyes and forget about everything else. That moment of culinary nirvana happens with delightful regularity at Everett &...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A man previously charged in a burglary spree across San Francisco is now accused of being among a group of strangers who took over an Oakland home listed on a home-sharing website, authorities said. The suspect, Patrick Potter, 32, is accused of occupying the home while wearing...

In a sliver of Marin County coastline, a single low-lying road now carries a price tag that rivals a small infrastructure bond. The ultra-rich homeowners who rely on it to reach their beachfront mansions are pressing neighbors to help cover millions of dollars in flood defenses, even as public officials warn that the...

Wildlife officials believe the mountain lion could have hunkered down in a San Francisco park and are warning visitors.