Oakland

According to Larry Brooks, director of Alameda County Healthy Homes Department, which leads lead poisoning prevention, the soil does not present a current health risk because it is under the blacktop pavement and is contained.

A BART train is stopped in the Transbay Tube Tuesday evening due to an equipment problem on the tracks.

San Francisco Police say they've made a major break in a case that shook Chinatown.

An Oakland Laundromat is providing its neighborhood children a place to foster a love for reading as it seeks to make community engagement a key component of its operation.

A caller notified police about 4:30 a.m. after seeing two males rummaging through parked vehicles in the 800 block of El Camino Real.

Riles was released from Santa Rita Jail late Thursday night after posting $20,000 bail, he said.

Oakland Fire Department made short work of a 2-alarm condo-complex fire near the waterfront at Jack London Square Friday night. No one was injured.

Allen Temple, at 8501 International Blvd., was organized in 1919 by Reverend J.L. Allen at Seminary Avenue and East 14th Street using 21 borrowed chairs, the church said in a news release.

Downtown Oakland was filled with music on Friday for Sway Fest, a free hip-hop music block party hosted by a well-known radio talk-show host.

The man was allegedly uncooperative and refused to obey officers' commands, so they used their Tasers in an attempt to subdue him.

The city of Oakland commemorated the 42 people who died on the collapsed Cypress freeway, when the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake struck 30 years ago today.

Three women are suing the Oakland Diocese, days after Gov. Newsom signed a bill giving survivors of child sex abuse more time to file lawsuits.

A Bay Area mother makes a plea for people to sign up as a bone marrow transplant donor, as her 5-year-old son battles a rare form of leukemia.