Oakland

Oakland Zoo spokeswoman Erin Harrison said in a statement Tuesday that a child hit a rock against the glass several times, “shattering the laminate layer.”

On Monday, two of these mothers,  34-year-old Dominique Walker and 41-year-old Sameerah Karim, took over a house on Magnolia Street, which they say has been empty for two years.

The overall cuteness level at the Oakland Zoo recently increased by an immeasurable factor when a 6-year-old fennec fox named Summer came to stay. 

The lawsuit would have derailed the proposed $85 million sale of the county's half ownership of the Coliseum site to the Oakland Athletics. 

 “It’s simple,” Hanna Alger said. “ There’s nothing that I have to do other than get up and move one foot in front of the other.  I can start when I want and I can stop whenever I want and it just lets me be me.”

The annual event includes the lighting of the 55-foot Mount Shasta fir tree decorated with 5,000 lights and 600 ornaments. 

The board members continued with the meeting and informed protestors they would be able to observe and comment by closed circuit television from the auditorium.

Oakland is dropping its lawsuit against Alameda County over the sale of the Oakland Coliseum complex, city officials announced Wednesday. 

Oakland Unified School District may for a second time this month separate the public from its board meeting Wednesday night. If everyone is well behaved, school officials said there would be no need for the public to gather in a nearby auditorium where they could use a microphone to comment on agenda items. 

Parents say they are starting to feel a little safer crossing the streets with their children near Garfield Elementary School in East Oakland.

Friends and family are feeling shock, sadness and anger over the killing of an Oakland wife and mother who was gunned down in front of her home Saturday as she and her husband went to ward off some possible car thieves.  

Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente announced late Sunday morning that chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson passed away Sunday. He was 60 years old.

The office opening event is set for 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at 900 Alice St., No. 200, and speakers will include Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan, activist and organizer Tracey Corder, director of the Racial Justice Campaign and a steering committee member with the group Black Womxn For, and Nicole DeMont, California director of Elizabeth Warren for President.

Oakland homicide investigators are working to determine who fatally shot an adult woman and wounded an adult male.