Oakland CA

(P&GJ) — California regulators have approved emergency interim rate relief for Crimson Utilities’ San Pablo Bay crude oil pipeline system, allowing a nearly 60% increase in shipping rates to prevent a potential suspension of pipeline operations, according to a draft resolution issued by the California Public...

Millions of Californians are preparing for a spell of cold that feels more like Denver than Daly City, a sharp break from the state’s usual winter pattern of rain and mild nights. Forecasts point to temperatures plunging well below seasonal norms across inland valleys and coastal hills, with some communities bracing...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Antioch, California – A cluster of small but noticeable earthquakes rattled parts of California along the Interstate 5 corridor late Sunday into early Monday, with shaking reported from the eastern Bay Area...

A version of this article first appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal on Jan. 13, 2002. While the City by the Bay was inundated with rain in January 1952, its namesake, a crack streamliner from Chicago, was snowbound with 236 passengers and crew in the Sierra Nevada. Some with a flair for the melodramatic styled the...

Woliczko will get the chance to play for Team USA once again as she showcases her abilities during the Nike Hoops Summit on April 22.

Oakland police are investigating a fatal shooting reported just before noon yesterday in the 5400 block of Coliseum Way, a short walk from the Oakland Coliseum flea market. Officers arrived to find a victim suffering from gunshot wounds, and the person was rushed to a local hospital, where they were later pronounced...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee nominated two candidates Thursday for the city's Police Commission, a civilian law enforcement oversight body that, among other things, is currently working to hire a new police chief. The mayor's office presented the candidates -- retired judge Evelio Grillo and retired firefighter Doug...

In a late-night incident that unfolded in Antioch, the Antioch Police Department reported a shooting that left a 29-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his neck. According to the Antioch Police Department, officers were called to the scene in the 600 block of Wilbur Avenue on Thursday at 10:46 PM.

Just after 2:30 p.m., the fire department said a car had crashed into a pole near Winston Drive and Junipero Serra Boulevard.

Protesters gathered across the Bay Area on Saturday to rally against the shootings of unarmed civilians by federal officers, including the killing of a woman in Minneapolis last week. About 450 assembled to be photographed in a human banner on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, spelling out, “It was murder,...