Oakland CA

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s lawyer is considering a bid to move her bribery trial out of Oakland, and in other news, it seems Sheng Thao may have broken up with the boyfriend whose $95k no-show job is at the heart of this scandal. Recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao...

Weekdays at the Walgreens parking lot in Fruitvale have grown eerily quiet. On a typical morning months ago, upwards of 60 men in work boots and dark hoodies would have been gathered around light poles and pop-up food stands in the large lot, chatting and drinking coffee out of paper cups. But on a recent gloomy...

OAKLAND, Calif. - There is a key deadline Thursday for a proposal to remove nearly 200 redwood trees on a golf course in East Oakland. A growing group of neighbors is fighting back, to try to preserve the trees that have been there for decades. Winter Sales! Up to 45%...

Cactus Jungle Nursery and Garden will sell its last succulent in Berkeley this month after 23 years in the city. The lease on the Fourth Street lot that the shop has called home for the last two decades is coming to an end and the owner intends to sell the space, according to Cactus Jungle co-founder Peter Lipson....

A Vacaville man who pleaded no contest to the murder of a 32-year-old woman he'd met online, and whose body he then burned near already raging wildfires in the summer of 2020, in an attempt to hide the crime, causing a separate wildfire, has just been sentenced. The summer of...

"People were passing out left and right," said one concertgoer, among many concerned over the crowd sizes at Outside Lands. "It was hard to breathe," said another. "This kind of feels like it's gonna be another Astroworld," said a third.

A plan for the city to give a portion of a West Berkeley street to Bayer is stirring anxiety for the residents of a homeless encampment on the block, who fear the pharmaceutical giant will soon move to evict them. The Berkeley City Council signed off last month on a...

This story was produced by El Tímpano, a civic media organization serving and covering the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities. The original version of the story can be found here. I wasn’t used to hearing anything about my Mam culture at school. Most classes focused on...

Nico Cuevas went missing off a beach along the Sacramento River.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained seven people Tuesday morning after arriving at a home in East Oakland, according to family members and an attorney representing the group. ICE in Oakland. Here's The Estimated Cost of a 1-day Gutter Guards InstallationHomeBuddy |. What we know:....