Oakland

Dozens of people marched through the streets of  Oakland Thursday, in an emotional but peaceful demonstration. A similar scene played out in Vallejo.

"I'm terrified by the police, my whole life I've been terrified of the police," said Curtis Nelson, who said racism and profiling go hand in hand. 

Local community leaders and activists are protesting the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. 

Reverend Johnnie Clark with Word Assembly Church in East Oakland said it's a matter of life and death.

A McDonald’s restaurant in Oakland was closed Tuesday after roughly two dozen workers went on strike.

Two people were hospitalized after being cut with a machete in Oakland on Monday morning, according to police.

Acting battalion chief Anthony Sanders said the fire was fully contained by about 5 a.m. 

The Skyline graduation was the first of the year for the Oakland Unified School District, which has been holding classes remotely since mid-March due to the novel coronavirus health emergency.

The Oakland Public Works Department announced Thursday that it will resume street and sidewalk clean-up services to tackle the city's backlog of dumped items.

Tenants found a realistic-looking notice outside their home on Congress Avenue in East Oakland late last month.

With much of the country still under strict or modified shelter-in-place orders since the middle of March, the airport reported that the number of people flying into or out of Oakland dropped 96 percent in April compared to the same month last year.

The Bay Regional Park District closed Oakland's Lake Temescal because of a sewage spill.

Renters complain that their landlords are demanding payment, threatening eviction, or using other tactics to put pressure on them despite rent and eviction moratoriums during the pandemic.

The emergency resolution directs the city administrator to develop a plan to address the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus on people of color in Oakland.

Zynga founder Mark Pincus said he would give the rest of what the district needed -- $700,000 - to complete the request.

The man wanted for the fatal hit-and-run collision that killed an Oakland mother of seven in January has been arrested, police said Wednesday.