Oakland CA

Oakland police are investigating a pair of shootings from earlier this week that sent two people to the hospital, police said Wednesday. The first was just before 10:30 p.m. Monday on the 1600 block of 3rd Avenue where officers found a man with what appeared to be at least one gunshot wound. Officers provided first...

Part of Councilmember Ken Houston's proposal would allow closing homeless encampments without notice, towing vehicles, and arresting people who return and reestablish camps within 60 days.

HAYWARD — A dispute between two men living at a homeless encampment in Hayward. The victim was fatally shot and he died at a hospital. The suspect. Rosario R. Rodriguez-Cazares, 49, remains in custody ineligible for release on bond. Rodriguez-Cazares is being housed at Alameda County Santa Rita Jail,...

Parents are increasingly choosing not to vaccinate their children, according to a joint NBC Bay Area and NBC News investigation. An analysis of nationwide health records, in partnership with researchers at Stanford University, reveals declining vaccination rates in nearly 80% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions. The...

Last week, the quiet of an Alameda neighborhood was shattered by a burglary attempt that was thwarted thanks to the quick thinking of two local children. The Alameda Police Department (APD) detailed the event in a social media post, recounting how a child was awakened just after 3:00 AM by the unsettling sounds of an...

A passenger aboard a San Francisco Muni light rail vehicle was stabbed late Monday night, and a suspect was still at large, police said.

(KRON) — A thief stole a sacred bronze monstrance from Saint Francis of Assisi Church on Oak Grove Road in Concord, police said. The Blessed Host Monstrance is 3-feet-tall and weighs 30 pounds. Police said the thief stole it from the church’s altar on the morning of September 4. Using surveillance footage, Concord...

Three men were wounded, two of them critically, in an altercation involving a knife and a gun in North Oakland Tuesday night. According to police, a 62-year-old man and a 30-year-old man who knew each other confronted a 40-year-old man they did not know on the 5300 block of San Pablo Avenue; the latter stabbed the...

Should cities wait until they can offer someone a shelter bed or housing before clearing homeless encampments and towing RVs?

The shooting happened at the Cash 4 Gold store on International Blvd., the Oakland police union said.