Oakland

Volunteers came together Saturday to pick up trash at Elmhurst Park in East Oakland, as part of the District 7 Community Cleanup. The 66th Mob/Forever Oakland group hosted the monthly event in partnership with other organizations.

An attorney representing Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao released a statement on Friday questioning the timing of an FBI raid her home, five months before a measure to recall her is put on the November ballot. 

One man died of smoke inhalation and another 20 residents of a duplex were displaced early Friday in a West Oakland fire, firefighters said. 

Oakland crews began paving over potholes on Skyline Boulevard – a popular and steep route for bicyclists – after KTVU revealed the city has paid out the most of any Bay Area city to people who have suffered serious injuries on this stretch of rough road. 

Gov. Newsom announces a ramp up of CHP officers in Oakland which has continued to face rampant incidents of car thefts, sideshows and other crimes.

New Oakland police Chief Floyd Mitchell met with the owner of the 76 gas station on Hegenberger Road, about one week after it was targeted by a mob of people in a robbery captured on surveillance video.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at the USS Hornet in Alameda for a 25-year-old Oakland firefighter who drowned in San Diego.

The Oakland Zoo said Tuesday it will move its 30-year-old African elephant, Osh, to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee this fall, leaving the zoo without any elephants for the first time in 75 years.   

Oakland's city attorney faces a Thursday deadline to hand over documents to the FBI after the U.S. Attorney in Northern California issued criminal grand jury subpoenas to city officials in the widening probe of the city's politically connected recycling company owners and Mayor Sheng Thao.

Residents in one Oakland apartment building said they are living in fear after gunfire erupted on their street the night of July 4.

A suspect arrested in an attack and robbery on two women in Oakland had been freed from prison 11 days prior, authorities said.

Police are searching for the victims seen in a brazen assault and robbery in Oakland that was caught on camera, according to the Oakland Police Department.

Oakland crime victims are calling on city officials and the police department to do more to address long 911 response times and crimes reported online.

An Oakland mother is awash in grief after first losing her stepdaughter to gun violence in a party bus shooting three years ago and now her son.

An Oakland gas station is reeling over the destruction of their business when a flash robbery took over the store. 

Family members are fundraising to repatriate the Oakland man's body to Guatemala City, where he was born.

The California Attorney General is returning $155,000 of campaign contributions given to him by members of Oakland's Duong family, who were raided by the FBI in June. 

The Alameda County Civil Grand Jury released a report questioning whether OPD can accommodate the new license plate reader cameras.