Oakland CA

South Berkeley woke up to a full-scale police operation this week when Berkeley police's Special Response Team hit a small multiunit building near Essex Street in an early-morning sweep tied to a San Pablo homicide investigation. Officers arrested a 22-year-old man as neighbors reported hearing loud blasts and...

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Brian Galle has been keeping busy this past year. Galle, a UC Berkeley School of Law professor who teaches courses on taxation and nonprofit organizations, has overseen two projects designed to reign in the power of the ultrarich. The first, a book titled “How to Tax the Ultrarich,” proposes reformed...

The allegedly planned “beach takeovers” had police on edge in the East Bay Sunday, leading to an increase in patrols. Alameda PD said in its notice on Facebook that the parties have led to unintended but “dangerous consequences” in the past. A parks district officer told...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is confirming that he is precisely the sort of figure many critics warned he would be: An in-over-his-head communist with deep ties to terrorism sympathizers and antisemites — one of whom, it appears, is his spouse. While his base loves and shares his radicalism, many NYC voters...

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge is stepping into the spotlight again, as transportation officials launch the next phase of a high-stakes regional test over who this span really serves. A newly approved study plan is clearing the way for a multi-year equity and feasibility analysis that will mix automated counters,...

LAFAYETTE: ATTORNEY GETS OVER 11 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR PART IN BILLION-DOLLAR SOLAR SCHEME

They had been trying to get the city to rescind the deal and get their money back with no luck. Then she heard from a potential buyer.

LAFAYETTE, CALIFORNIA – As a local news publication, it’s always wonderful when our readers come through for us. And that was the case this weekend, when reader Elaine wrote in to share that a new liquor license had appeared at the defunct location of the former Horn BBQ in Lafayette.

Pacific Heights neighbors have been horrified recently by a repeat offender who kept leaving dog-poop bags on the sidewalk outside a particular home —an apparent passive-aggressive critique of a long, annoying construction project. In the annals of dog-poop-related crimes, this was obviously bad. But it did get me,...