Oakland CA

(KRON) — Police in Walnut Creek are investigating a double homicide after officers found two women deceased inside a home Thursday night. According to the Walnut Creek Police Department, the homicides occurred around 11:44 p.m. on Kelobra Court, which is located just north of Ygnacio Valley Road on the city’s east...

Two unrelated shootings in Oakland Tuesday night, one on BART and another on I-580 near Mills College, have left a 15-year-old in critical condition, and a Ford Fiesta shot up with bullet holes. Two separate shootings within about an hour of each other complicated travel in Oakland Tuesday night, both...

Four years after a stunning mishap where the SF Medical Examiner notified a family that their father had been declared dead, and then he turned up alive, the same man has, in fact, now died. It was exactly one year ago today when the Chronicle broke the story that a...

When the Berkeley Flea Market, a fixture of South Berkeley since the 1970s, announced its impending closure earlier this year, it set off a wave of tributes and farewells celebrating its past as an essential haven for those seeking cheap furniture, used clothes and community. It appeared that the market’s...

The 89th Annual Walnut Festival is right around the corner!. Due to a large remodel of Heather Farm Park we’ve had to relocate for a few years while this is done, the festival has a NEW LOCATION! Contra Costa Event Park (fairgrounds) at 1201 W 10th Street in Antioch.

On a muggy Saturday in August, along Coliseum Way a block away from the Oakland flea market, the weekday smells of diesel exhaust and the rumble of construction crews have been replaced with aromas from clay pots bubbling with a variety of delectable dishes, competing scents of lengua, and al pastor meats, and cheese...

The Oakland Police Department has issued an urgent alert regarding a missing child, Ezekiel Williams, last seen on the 900 block of 66th Avenue at approximately 1:30 PM yesterday. According to a social media post from the Oakland Police Department, the 10-year-old boy is considered at risk due to his...

The latest findings by an Oakland nonprofit is urging the school district to do more. Families in Action found students' reading and math levels are well below state grade levels.

Prosecutors have charged a man with 19 criminal counts — 16 of them felonies — after police say he deliberately struck three random pedestrians in Berkeley.

Longtime Bay Area broadcaster Frank Somerville, 67, was arrested on suspicion of battery after a fight with his 20-year-old daughter that he later described in a since-deleted Facebook post