Oakland CA

San Francisco’s District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder announced late last week that she is resigning, due to unspecified health concerns. Fielder told Mission Local of her decision Friday. Staff told the local news website that the first-term supervisor was in the hospital undergoing an “acute personal health crisis.”

A disturbing video surfaced showing two young individuals violently attacking a man in a random assault on the streets of San Francisco. The brutal attack, which took place near Market and Steuart streets in the Embarcadero, was captured on camera and has left many viewers horrified. The Violent Encounter. In...

Oakland turned out by the thousands on Saturday for a historic No Kings march that organizers called one of the biggest protests in US history. On Saturday, people flooded into the streets in every major US city, from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles, and in hundreds of small towns, such as Ray, North Dakota,...

The plan calls for improving transit and pedestrian infrastructure. | BayAreaMetro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Wikimedia Commons. Oakland has released a draft of the second phase of its General Plan update, a Land Use Framework that will guide the city’s development over the next two decades.

Walnut Creek, California — Talk about productivity!. One Walnut Creek police officer recovered multiple dangerous weapons and made arrests in two separate incidents during the same week, according the police. In the first case, Walnut Creek police said Officer Young was patrolling near a retail shopping area when he...

Former San Francisco human rights official Sheryl Davis, who resigned in disgrace after a 2024 City Hall corruption scandal, was arrested Monday on multiple felony charges after a series of investigations exposing the misallocation of public funds. Davis, 57, surrendered and was booked into county jail just before 10...

BART went first. Now, another key transit agency serving Oakland has created a contingency plan to give the public a sense of what service would be like without a big financial lifeline. AC Transit staff, at a meeting of its board of directors last week, said that without voter approval...

In the 2024 incident, SJPD officers got into a violent struggle and "dumped" the man even though they concluded he had committed no crime. The I-Team's Dan Noyes questions their police supervisor, who is now a Deputy Chief of Police for BART.

OAKLAND — A residential development in downtown Oakland that could produce hundreds of low-cost apartments is moving ahead with the purchase of the project site by a group led by an affordable housing builder from Southern California. Acting through an affiliate, Community HousingWorks paid $10.2 million for three...

"She’s the kind of person that collects people, that brings people together when you have a problem," said a friend of Amy Hillyard