Alameda County

​​​​​​​While wearing a medical mask, Serrell Gordon stole $780 in energy drinks from a Walmart store, then falsely claimed to loss prevention that he had coronavirus, San Leandro police say.

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

Fremont will open a "drive-thru" COVID-19 testing center on Friday, city officials 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.

About 10 percent of the 1,254 people who were the first to get free novel coronavirus testing at a Hayward fire station had positive results for the virus, the city said on Wednesday.

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.

Berkeley Farms has been in operation since 1910. 

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.

Shelter-in-place orders have crushed business for restaurants in the Bay Area, with many forced to close their doors. Others have looked for ways to stay afloat by truncating operating hours and drastically cutting staff. Another tactic has been to promote specials to attract business.

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 founder of an East Bay delivery company wanted to show his gratitude to health care workers who are saving lives. 

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