Oakland CA

OAKLAND, Calif. - A broad band of steady rain on Tuesday is moving through the region, bringing widespread rainfall to the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey Bay, and nearby inland counties. Scattered showers. The heaviest, most consistent rain is gradually shifting eastward, with lighter, scattered showers beginning to follow behind...

Today, Oakland's busy Piedmont Avenue was interrupted when a man walked into the Wells Fargo branch at 151 40th Street, handed a teller a handwritten note indicating he had a gun, and walked out with an undisclosed amount of cash, according to police reports. The suspect was last seen heading southbound on Piedmont Avenue, and investigators are asking nearby residents and businesses to review...

Kaiser Permanente is proposing a larger, all-electric hospital across from its current Geary Boulevard campus, with 300 beds and expanded services.

Contra Costa County is bracing for big cuts to federal funding that helps provide housing for the unsheltered. County leaders said the Department of Housing and Urban Development has warned it could slash funding that currently pays for hundreds of residents to have a roof over their head. Housing leaders estimate up to 500 homes could be lost as part of federal cuts that...

Nearly six years ago, a group of Bay Area journalists and privacy activists sued Oakland’s police department for its failure to respond to thousands of public records requests over many years. To settle the case, OPD agreed to clear its massive backlog of public records requests and, going forward,...

The FBI was investigating a robbery at a Wells Fargo bank on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland.

Two people, likely there for days, were found deceased in a car at Aquatic Park in West Berkeley over the weekend, authorities report. Someone who noticed the pair in a parked car shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday alerted a group of volunteers doing a trash cleanup. The volunteers called police. Berkeley police and firefighters responded to the scene in South Aquatic Park and found...

From the high-rises of San Francisco to the docks of Oakland, the iconic silhouettes of cargo ships are a staple of the Bay Area horizon. While these giants drive a regional economy worth billions, they also carry a heavy environmental price tag. As of 2026, the maritime industry remains one of the most significant—yet increasingly regulated—sources of pollution in the San...

An Alameda County jury began deliberating Tuesday in what may be the first Catholic clergy abuse case in California to reach trial. The historic civil case centers on a 61-year-old man who said he was repeatedly molested as a 10-year-old altar boy by a Catholic priest in Union City more than 50 years ago. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland...

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