Oakland CA

Latetia Bobo was one of six people shot at an unpermitted event at Oakland's EZ Lounge earlier this month. The 33-year-old's family is now asking city leaders to make sure incidents like these don't happens again.

There is a fake taco truck bolted to the side of El Tapatio Restaurant on 23rd Street, open late, doing real work for the neighborhood. But there is also a door, and a dining room behind it, and this time we used it. El Tapatio is located at 910 23rd

LAFAYETTE, CALIFORNIA – When we reported earlier this month that the Round Table Pizza in downtown Lafayette (3637 Mt. Diablo Blvd.) had closed, we weren’t sure exactly what was happening. Readers wrote in to tell us that tables in the restaurant were gone, and it didn’t appear to...

Earlier this month, when I wrote about the potential chaos at the Broadway Plaza parking garage in downtown Walnut Creek after the switch to phone-only payment, I was hoping it wouldn’t be that bad. Unfortunately, over the weekend, it was exactly that bad. As I was leaving, I saw...

Several times a year, a heat wave rolls through the East Bay, leaving hundreds of Oakland classrooms sweltering. In aging buildings, which mostly lack adequate cooling systems, teachers have tried all sorts of creative ways to keep their students and their classrooms cool. At Sequoia Elementary School, Susan Chiodo...

A man who was hurt aboard a San Francisco Muni vehicle was taken to a hospital and later died, city transit officials said today, prompting a police investigation and fresh worries about safety on the system. Emergency crews responded to the incident, and the San Francisco Police Department is now...

Attorneys say SFPD may have crossed a legal line when officers surrounded ICE agents during an arrest at the San Francisco airport. Attorneys say SFPD may have violated the law during ICE arrest at SFO

Nearly two months after a Jan. 19 three-alarm fire ripped through a downtown Oakland apartment building, roughly 200 residents are still living out of bags and bouncing between temporary beds. The tenants and a tenants' rights group insist the landlord owes them city-mandated relocation payments due to preexisting...

Just before 1 AM today, a barrage of gunfire tore into a moving car in East Oakland, leaving a 27-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man wounded, authorities said. The woman was struck at least three times and the man at least twice, and both were taken to a hospital in stable condition. The targeted vehicle later...

An Oakland woman discovered that her license plates had been swapped with stolen plates that were linked to a serious crime — after she was pulled over by Hayward police who were tipped off by a Flock license plate reader. As Oaklandside reports, 65-year-old Ann Nomura of Oakland was...