Plea for tips in Oakland slaying of delivery driver

Lion dancers and drummers ushered in good luck and fortune Wednesday for a new police captain assigned to Oakland's Chinatown and downtown.

Chilling surveillance video shows the deadly shooting of a rideshare food delivery driver in Oakland

The family members of a driver in Oakland shot and killed while working are demanding justice. The brazen shooting happened Sunday morning in Oakland's Little Saigon, along 13th Avenue in East Oakland. It was captured on surveillance video.

Oakland to pay $360K to ex-councilman who was thrown face-down at City Hall

The city of Oakland has agreed to pay a $360,000 settlement to a former council member who filed a lawsuit alleging the city and police violated his civil rights when officers threw him face-down inside City Hall in an incident he said racially motivated.

Truck drivers planning protest at Port of Oakland Monday

Truck drivers at the Port of Oakland are walking off the job. Independent truck drivers are protesting, working to shut down port operations and jam traffic because they say Assembly Bill 5 is going to put them out of business.

Oakland firefighters rescue man who drove into canal near Coliseum

Oakland firefighters rescued a man in his 50s Sunday night who drove his vehicle off northbound Interstate 880 near the Oakland Coliseum, down an embankment, and into about three feet of water in a canal, where it landed on its side.   

3 injured in accident involving Amtrak train in Oakland

Three people were injured in an incident involving an Amtrak train on Friday afternoon, officials said.

Man celebrating 34th birthday killed in downtown Oakland triple shooting

Oakland police are investigating a downtown shooting early Wednesday that killed a man celebrating his 34th birthday and injured two women with him.

First Raising Cane's Bay Area location attracts fried chicken fanatics

Raising Canes, a Louisiana-based fried chicken chain known for its crispy chicken fingers, opened its first Bay Area location in Oakland Thursday.

Fall semester is free at Laney College in Oakland

The fall semester is free at Laney Community College in Oakland – a gift to students who might have suffered financially and academically throughout the pandemic. 

Oakland Zoo welcomes two rescued tigers from abandoned roadside zoo

Oakland Zoo welcomed two tigers rescued from an abandoned roadside zoo in Oklahoma whose owner was reportedly associated with the infamous "Joe Exotic".

Oakland clearing out homeless encampment after fire despite opposition from residents

Wood Street in West Oakland is an area that has a number of homeless encampments. The city has started to remove some makeshift homes as part of a larger plan to turn it into an intervention site to help the homeless in the area. It comes one day after a large fire at one encampment.

1 man killed, another critically wounded in East Oakland shooting

An Oakland man is dead and a Vallejo man is in critical condition following a shooting in East Oakland on Monday, police said.

Person on track, disabled train lead to major delays on BART

It was a rough morning for East Bay BART service Tuesday. A person on the track between the Bay Fair and Hayward stations reported shortly after 9:30 a.m. led to major delays on the Berryessa Line in the Berryessa, Richmond and Daly City directions. 

Oakland man arrested for not wearing mask died of jail's 'outright refusal' to provide medical care: lawsuit

The family Maurice Monk of Oakland died in Santa Rita Jail filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that the 45-year-old man was denied adequate health care. He was arrested for fighting with a bus driver for not wearing a mask.