Oakland CA

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, like Apple and Spotify. Gun violence is dropping in Oakland, but it’s still way too high. We take you behind the scenes into some intensive, on-the-ground efforts to bring the numbers down further — efforts that are funded by the city but led by civilians.

After a three-week investigation, Oakland police have arrested two people accused of organizing a large and disruptive sideshow that drew about 100 vehicles and hundreds of spectators.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Alameda County prosecutors on Friday charged two men who survived a wild shootout at an Oakland gold shop with murdering two associates who were shot and killed during a confrontation with the shop owner. Two charged with murder in slayings of associates. What we know:. Deshawn Tyson,...

Pawn shop employees at Oakland, California’s, Eddy Cash for Gold returned fire Wednesday around 7:45 p.m., killing two alleged robbers and wounding three others. ABC 7 News reported that police indicated, “Five masked suspects from Stockton, some armed, entered the store and began assaulting employees.” A gunfight...

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary called the burger the best he's ever eaten.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. - Former San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher is facing criminal charges and a possible trial for shooting and killing Steven Taylor during a 2020 confrontation at a Walmart store. An Alameda County judge on Friday set a trial date for Fletcher’s case on Jan. 6 next...

A man convicted of trafficking drugs from San Joaquin County to the Bay Area was sentenced to eight years in state prison, prosecutors said Friday.

(KRON) — A Bay Area man was arrested for robbing three San Francisco banks in a single afternoon Wednesday, according to the San Francisco Police Department. The suspect, 62-year-old Valentino Luchin of San Francisco, is a former executive chef at two failed Bay Area restaurants — Rose Pistola in North Beach and...

A man was fatally stabbed in broad daylight Wednesday afternoon at the busy intersection of Junipero Serra Boulevard and Ocean Avenue in San Francisco. The stabbing, which SFist noted earlier before we knew it had resulted in a fatality, occurred around 4:35 pm Wednesday. Police arrived on the scene to find a man...

BART has agreed to pay $6.75 million to Jasmine Gao, who was shot and wounded by a BART officer last year.