Oakland CA

Oakland Unified and other school districts in California are experiencing a decline in new immigrant students due to changes in immigration policies, raising concerns that newcomer programs may be scaled back.

Crews are battling a massive three-alarm building fire with lots of smoke and damage in Hayward that may have started from an explosion. Fire officials say there are possible injuries.

After two mistrials and months of legal wrangling, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has dropped the murder charge against Elijah Rucker, who had been accused in the fatal shooting of 4-year-old Romell Wright. The shooting happened around 8 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2024, on the 1700 block of 89th Avenue in East...

A judicial hearing on the terms of Ken Mattson’s bail got boisterous Wednesday in San Francisco when a U.S. District Court judge began talking about renewed jail time. The two sides were discussing the value of a house on La Salle Avenue in Piedmont — owned by Mattson’s wife, Stacy — and whether there were...

Police in Livermore busted a vehicle theft operation allegedly being carried out by two teenagers, the department said Wednesday. Between Oct. 17 and 19, several reports of stolen Infiniti cars came into the Livermore Police Department, as well as the report of multiple attempted vehicle thefts. Article continues...

OAKLAND, Calif. - California’s United Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce has seized nearly $57 million in processed cannabis, and eradicated 58,358 illegally cultivated plants. State officials in November conducted three enforcement operations that included personnel from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife...

The family of Marcel Dupree Jones, an unhoused Black man shot and killed in what authorities have described as a hate crime, has sued the man charged with his murder, along with the nonprofit that runs the Northwest Berkeley homeless shelter where Jones was killed and the city of Berkeley, which funds the nonprofit.

A CHP helicopter turned a late-night robbery follow-up into a carefully choreographed takedown in the Oakland area yesterday, guiding officers as they trailed a wanted car from station to station before finally boxing it in at a gas pump. After a spike strip shredded the vehicle's tires, the driver tried to bolt but...

A late-night drive turned into a shooting scene in East Oakland yesterday when a 31-year-old man was hit multiple times while sitting in his parked car on the 6700 block of Eastlawn Street. The gunfire erupted at about 11:32 PM, and the victim was struck at least twice before being rushed to a hospital, where he was...

OAKLAND — Beverage company Yerba Madre has leased part of a historic building in downtown Oakland in a deal that provides a lift to a struggling East Bay office market. With the deal, the company will move its headquarters from Sebastopol in Sonoma County to 1910 Broadway in the Uptown district. The lease was...