Oakland CA

Oakland will soon have a new cultural affairs manager to oversee public funding for the arts. After the position was among the cuts when the city’s budget was approved on June 11, the city council voted to reinstate the position at its Dec. 2 meeting. Besides overseeing public funding,...

A magnitude 2.9 earthquake rattled Berkeley on Monday afternoon, following eight quakes in San Ramon that began at 2:30 a.m. "Felt it on Northside. My wall rattled," wrote one Berkeley resident on Reddit . "Southside here. Felt like a truck ran into my house," wrote another. "Twice." A third community member...

Police are investigating a carjacking in West Berkeley on Friday night. A man called police to report the incident at about 11 p.m. He said he had been driving an hour earlier at West Frontage Road and University Avenue when the carjacking happened. He had come to a stop when someone with a gun approached him and...

The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office is now investigating the shooting.

As a volunteer for Safe Routes to School and founder of E-bike Access, Bob Mittelstaedt visits school campuses across the Bay Area to track the rising number of e-motos.

Oakland’s transportation department expects the city administrator to accept and appropriate $800,000 in grant funds from CalStart, an environmental nonprofit, for the electric bike lending program launched in September. The funds will mostly be used to cover rising bicycle and insurance costs, and the costs of...

A series of small earthquakes struck the San Ramon area Monday morning, in the latest swarm to hit the East Bay community over the past few weeks.

BERKELEY — A man and woman with prior convictions were arrested at a Lululemon store in. James Talton, 25, of San Pablo, and Deja Mae Munson, 27 of Vallejo, face new. charges filed on December 2. They are presently free on bond. An officer on duty nearby observed the...

(KRON) — A 3.7-magnitude earthquake jolted the East Bay Monday morning at 9:07 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was one of a series of rumblings to begin the week near San Ramon. The quakes’ epicenters were approximately 2.5 miles southeast of San Ramon, located on the Calaveras Fault. People...

A power issue between the Powell and Embarcadero BART stations in San Francisco has shut down Green and Red Line service through the Transbay Tube and limited Blue Line service.