Oakland CA

One of the activities Teresa Williams remembers as a student at the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School was a field trip to the Oakland Airport. The students entered a vacant plane where they were encouraged to dream and envision where they would like to go someday. “Though we...

A teen was shot in the leg during an alleged "altercation" between the student and the suspect earlier this afternoon. ‘I don’t want to come to school tomorrow:’ S.F. student shot in leg at Burton High, suspect arrested

A San Francisco man is accused of fatally shooting another man in the city’s South of Market neighborhood early Sunday.

(KRON) — A 23-year-old San Francisco woman faces multiple charges, including human trafficking of a minor, after police found her along with a missing at-risk 17-year-old East Coast girl at a hotel in South San Francisco, police said. “Detectives went undercover and responded to an online posting which depicted the...

Roughly 100 Oakland police officers off the job on extended leave are costing the city millions of dollars a year at a time when it faces both a budget deficit and an officer shortage.

Singer-songwriter John Legend is set to perform in Oakland next month as part of his ‘Get Lifted’ anniversary tour.

Bay Area air quality regulators on Tuesday announced $900,000 in fines against Chevron, amid claims the company didn’t properly monitor air pollution emissions at its Richmond refinery. The Bay Area Air Quality District’s fines follow the company’s failure to upgrade 20 air quality monitors, after regulators found...

As the hundreds of people who powered Ken Mattson’s real estate acquisitions struggle with lost monthly income and the possible erasure of their retirement funds, the indicted investment adviser and his wife continue to live in a 6,000-square-foot home behind a locked gate on Castle Road, overlooking the city of...

It comes as high pressure to the west and lower pressure to the east has caused Central Valley fog to spill into Bay Area counties - making for unusually low temperatures

Claude, a rare albino alligator and the unofficial mascot of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, has died at age 30, the museum announced on Dec. 2. The alligator, whose unique appearance and calm personality dazzled millions of visitors for nearly 20 years, had been monitored by a team in recent...