Oakland

A man was shot to death late Thursday afternoon in Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza near City Hall, police said. 

The Oakland Zoo launched a subscription service Thursday to give people at home a behind the scenes look at animals with their keepers.

Countless people across the country are turning to one of the few hobbies that hasn't been banned: Baking bread.

More than 80% of the families have had one parent lose their job because of the shelter in place order and more than 60% have both parents out of work.

City of Oakland officials are making grants available to small businesses to help them stay in business through the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, the officials said Tuesday.

Fatima Almaweri, a West Oakland single mother of two boys has been watching her money going out, with nothing coming in anymore.

The shelter-in-place order has triggered a wide breadth of exercise videos to help people release energy and stay active at home.

A dockworker fell to his death from the deck of a container ship at the Port of Oakland early Tuesday morning, port officials said.

With families across the Bay Area trying to cope with the many changes brought on by the coronavirus outbreak, efforts are under way to help an East Oakland school community that has been hit especially hard.

Now, there’s a global shortage of the medication leaving one Oakland woman with lupus with a limited supply.

Not only that, but the crowds on Sunday were big and the spectators were not practicing social distancing. 

The coronavirus crisis has uprooted lives all across the country and with millions of Americans now unemployed, families are struggling to get by. 

Two hotels in East Oakland have now opened their doors to house the homeless during the COVID-19 crisis. 

The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District announced on Monday that it will modify its service beginning on Tuesday in the wake of declining ridership because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

So far, Sunrise Bistro workers have delivered dozens of meals to the ER at Kaiser in Walnut Creek. Over the weekend, they dropped off 80 free breakfasts at Highland Hospital in Oakland.

A retrial in the deadly Ghost Ship fire for defendant Derick Almena is delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. 

Barbara Johnson Hopper, who loved to garden at her Oakland Hills home and was an active real estate agent, died last Thursday after contracting the virus.

The Oakland City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting on Friday to approve an emergency ordinance imposing a moratorium on residential and commercial evictions, rent increases and late fees during the novel coronavirus epidemic.

Emergency room doctors and nurses in Oakland are under increasing pressure and preparing for a surge of coronavirus patients.