Oakland CA

You make the drive across the Bay Bridge for a reason. Daly City has the highest concentration of Filipino-Americans in the country — sister city to Quezon City, the place Jollibee picked for its first US store back in 1998. Forty minutes down I-280 and you're in turo-turo, sisig, and señorita-bread country. The Infatuation refreshed its Daly City guide on February...

(KRON) — After several previous years in which the Oakland Police Department says illegal sideshows disrupted May Day and Cinco de Mayo celebrations, OPD said it plans to deploy additional resources, including aerial police tracking, from Friday through next Tuesday to prevent dangerous activity. “Sideshows are among the most common issues,” OPD said in a […]

Moonchild, a Grammy-nominated Los Angeles soul trio, postponed Bay Area tour dates after its truck carrying instruments, stage gear and merchandise was stolen in Oakland.

OAKLAND — A repeat offender faces new charges involving a targeted shooting at a driver in. the San Antonio neighborhood of East Oakland. Dadisi Lee, 32 of Oakland, was identified as. the suspect and placed under arrest on April 23. Lee was booked into Alameda County Santa Rita Jail....

Crowds are flocking to San Francisco's Pier 39 to catch a glimpse of a rare visitor to the city: a massive sea lion.

New cost estimates are in for California’s high-speed rail project, and the price tag has gone up again. The massive rail system is designed to one day connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, with future extensions planned to San Diego and Sacramento. In a newly proposed business plan released this year, project leaders estimate the […]

They’re an otherworldly sight: blue and iridescent. They have no clear eyes, mouths or body parts analogous to our own. And rising from one side — is it their back; hard to tell — is a transparent sail, which these little seafarers use to catch the wind.

A grim discovery off an Oakland freeway ramp is now at the center of a homicide-style investigation, after a woman's badly decomposed remains were found yesterday in a dumpster near the 17th Street offramp from northbound Interstate 980, authorities said. Officers located the body at about 5:20 PM, and investigators have not yet determined how long it had been there. The California...

A man in his 30s was found deceased on a Berkeley sidewalk on Thursday morning, authorities report. Readers asked The Scanner for details after seeing police activity in the neighborhood. Police responded to the 1400 block of Carleton Street, at Acton Street, just after 7 a.m. after getting a report about an unresponsive man on the sidewalk. Arriving first responders confirmed that the man...

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Bishop Michael Barber said 12 sites and a pastoral center would all be shuttered.