Oakland

The Oakland teacher's union, elected officials, and parents gathered Thursday in front of school district headquarters and accused the Alameda County superintendent of schools of trying to eventually run the Oakland Unified School District.

Community members said Richard Rogers, 23, was a 2016 Bishop O'Dowd High School graduate, where he was a football player.

People who dine at some of Oakland's most popular restaurants are about to see an additional 1% fee on their bills. That money will go towards meals for those living on the street.

An Oakland high school in the Temescal neighborhood was on lockdown Wednesday morning and there was police activity near 45th and Webster streets.

Cars driven recklessly at illegal sideshows. Roving caravans of robbers invading pharmacies, stores and marijuana dispensaries. Young victims killed in freeway shootings, like 2-year-old Jasper Wu and two teenage girls on a party bus.

Landlords can receive a signing bonus up to $1,000 for each new unit leased to a voucher holder, from either a new or existing property owners, as well as a 'Speed Leasing Bonus' of $100 if they lease a unit by Dec. 31 through the Oakland Housing Authority.

It’s a distinction few can claim and most certainly one worth celebrating. Known as the oldest living person in California, Mila Mangold turned 114 years old last month, surrounded by residents and staff of her senior care home in El Cerrito.

A man found dead Monday morning in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood is the city's 131st homicide victim this year, marking the highest number of violent deaths in Oakland in a decade, police said.

Oakland police are investigating a shooting that took place early Saturday morning in the area of Fisher Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland.

A 15-year-old boy is in custody, accused of fatally stabbing his father at their Oakland hills home.

Oakland police say a delivery truck driver was carjacked, kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint Friday morning. 

Reading Partners' tutoring program serves 16,000 students each year in grades K-4. In the East Bay, it's been helping more than 500 students at 14 schools in Oakland and San Lorenzo.

The noon gathering at the San Jose Civic Center was large because of just how many people Kevin Nishita touched. He was a retired police officer, who worked in San Jose, Hayward and Colma as well as for the Oakland Housing Authority.

A torched Christmas tree at Jack London Square has been fixed in time for the weekend community celebration.

A group of fully vaccinated and boosted Kaiser employees are at home recovering from exposure to the omicron coronavirus variant.