Oakland CA

Picture this: bustling streets that once pulsed with energy now echo a bit too quietly. In these iconic American hubs, families and professionals are slipping away without much fanfare, chasing better lives elsewhere. What’s driving this under-the-radar exodus in 2026? It’s not dramatic headlines grabbing attention....

In a city where tents line sidewalks and underpasses like stubborn shadows, Barbara Lee is proposing something bold enough to sound almost mythical: cutting street homelessness in half within five years. As she approaches the end of her first year as mayor of Oakland, Lee has rolled out a sweeping...

Hundreds of nurses and supporters packed the sidewalk outside Alameda Hospital yesterday, warning that proposed federal cuts to Medicare and Medicaid could shrink the very safety-net services many East Bay patients rely on to survive. The crowd was one stop on a nationwide Red Alert bus tour organized by nurses’...

An early-morning drive on southbound Interstate 880 in San Leandro turned deadly yesterday, when a single-car crash near the Davis Street exit left two men dead and a woman injured, authorities said. The collision was reported around 5:30 AM. The car became trapped between a freeway guardrail and an exit...

A Lafayette cul-de-sac became a crime scene Saturday morning after police found a man dead in a home and arrested a suspect.

When firefighters arrived, they found an unconscious man in the Bernal Heights home where a gas leak was reported.

At 2:57 PM on March 20, 2026, traffic on Interstate 80 slowed when a driver stopped his vehicle, approached another car with a knife, and made threats. CHP Oakland Area officers responded and located the suspect driving a Lincoln Navigator. The driver exited the freeway, discarded the knife on the off-ramp, and was...

On March 20, 2026, around 6:13 p.m., officers responded to Nordstrom Rack at 2280 Bridgepointe Parkway after a theft was reported. A man named Ryan Komara, age 34, allegedly stole about $150 in merchandise by removing security tags with a sensor-removal tool.

Juice House Co., a Bay Area organic juice chain with locations including San Francisco’s Ferry Building, will close all stores in April.

A woman in San Leandro, California, was stopped at a Walmart gate after being accused of stealing. She decided to record this incident and even admitted to adding Tipe Pods to a container she deemed not to be “all the way filled up.” Then, she uploaded the clip online, believing the internet would be on her side,...