Oakland CA

Officers in Colma arrested a man last week who was allegedly found with dozens of credit cards belonging to other people and tried to use one, police said. On April 20, just before 3 p.m., officers arrived at the Best Buy on Colma Boulevard after staff reported a theft. Employees said a man tried to use a credit card that didn't belong to him...

The 7th Street corridor that made West Oakland the Harlem of the West is mostly gone. Flint's closed in 2010. Brown Sugar Kitchen shut in 2022. Uncle Willie's got pushed out by a Marriott tower next door. But if you want barbecue that still tastes like the East Bay — slow smoke, family recipes, no tech-bro polish — these five spots are still standing.

Rather than relying on city and county subsidies, the project was funded on a streamlined mix of tax credit equity, debt and institutional partnership.

An Ebony Alert was issued early Monday morning for a missing 15-year-old girl last seen in Castro Valley over the weekend, according to the California Highway Patrol. Ganiah Grubbs was last seen at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday near Edwards Lane and Center Street in Castro Valley and is believed to be on foot, according to the CHP, which activated the...

The disappearance of Ilene Beth Misheloff remains one of the most haunting unsolved cases in Northern California. On January 30, 1989, the 13 year old Dublin girl left school and began what should have been an ordinary walk home. Instead, somewhere along that familiar route, she vanished. More than three decades later, her name still carries the weight of unanswered questions, painful memory, and...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – When you think of Claude Monet, you probably instinctively picture water lilies and beautiful bridges. The Monet exhibit currently at the de Young Museum in San Francisco includes plenty of those things. But it also showcases a dramatically different chapter of Monet’s career and life: his time in Venice.

If you have spent a Saturday inching across the Carquinez Bridge only to pay $50 a person for a tasting flight, you already know the truth: a Napa day is lovely, but it is no longer the only option. Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Danville, and the Livermore Valley have quietly built a wine-friendly dining scene that is closer, gentler on the wallet, and easier...

Berkeley police are asking for the public’s help to find 57-year-old Suraya Zikria, who has gone missing after she was last seen last Thursday at the intersection of Dwight Way and Shattuck Avenue. She is described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall with shoulder-length dark brown hair. Her clothing at the time is unknown, and she may have been carrying...

If you’ve ever sat in traffic at the corner of Boyd Road and Contra Costa Boulevard, you’ve stared right at it: a 45-foot concrete obelisk rising like a silent sentinel over the suburban sprawl. It is the Soldier’s Memorial, perhaps the most recognizable landmark in Pleasant Hill.

A routine traffic stop in Richmond's southern district last Thursday turned into something far more serious when officers say they pulled four illegal firearms out of a single vehicle. Police report that three of those guns had been modified to fire fully automatically. Officers also located numerous extended magazines and one firearm that had been reported stolen.