Oakland CA

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Examples of hostile architecture, also known as hostile design or defensible architecture, are everywhere in cities and public spaces.

A group of roughly 45 people fishing for crab in San Francisco was interrupted by California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers late last month, the CDFW said Thursday. The department received a tip on its CALTIP line about dozens of people illegally taking Dungeness from San Francisco Bay on Aug. 30.

The 28-year-old victim was walking on Lincoln Avenue when a group of people hopped out of a vehicle and fired at least two dozen shots at him.

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After months of uncertainty and a temporary shutdown, the historic Berkeley Flea Market has officially reopened at its longtime home: the Ashby BART Station parking lot.

A Bay Area corrections officer died after a possible fall from a horse.

Local leaders are launching the Stand Together Bay Area Fund, which will provide living expenses to families of local immigrants who’ve been deported or detained by ICE. Applicants can sign up through the SF-based Mission Asset Fund. As the Chronicle reports, San Francisco Mayor Lurie, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee,...

Once a familiar face on Bay Area newscasts, Frank Somerville is now facing assault allegations involving his 20-year-old daughter. The 67-year-old former KTVU anchor was arrested on Monday, Sept. 15, on suspicion of battery causing serious bodily injury, according to jail records reviewed by PEOPLE. The incident...

On an unseasonably warm September afternoon, home care worker Aisha Mitchell traveled from San Mateo to the Outer Richmond to listen to the waves crashing on the shore. As a waitress at the Denny’s in Japantown in the early 2000s, she’d come to this exact spot — the Cliff House — to admire the sea.

The Oakland Unified School District only just regained local control this summer after a state bailout two decades ago, and already top officials are warning that it is spending past its means and quickly falling back into perilous financial territory. In a letter to the Oakland school board last week,...