Alameda County

The Mayor called reporters into Democratic Party Headquarters in Oakland to make an announcement of new appointments who want to serve and oppose the recall effort.

An East Bay youth football team is fundraising for a trip to Florida after qualifying for the American Youth Football National Championship. 

The city of Oakland is deploying 15 more surveillance cameras around the city to help prosecute illegal dumping.

Body camera video, newly surfaced as part of a civil rights lawsuit, shows the moments when an East Bay Regional Park police officer used a Taser on an unarmed man who is now in a coma in a situation that started over expired car tags. 

The two teenagers had been missing since Friday's dance.

The Oakland Police Department says sideshows occurred in various parts of the city around 2:45 a.m. on Saturday.

Just in time for the season of spooky ghosts and phantoms, a new list is out identifying America’s “most haunted hotels," and two historic Bay Area resorts are among those receiving the eerie distinction. 

There are many changes at the Oakland Police Commission. 

Several dozen residents of an Oakland hills neighborhood, impacted by a remaining evacuation order for the Keller Fire, were finally able to return home on Sunday evening. 

Firefighters in the Oakland hills made progress fighting the Keller Fire on Saturday and were able to lift some of the mandatory evacuations facing nearby residents.

Oakland Fire said the Keller Fire and the Tunnel Fire of 1991 share similarities. Both erupted as a result of heavy winds and hot temperatures in October.

A typical rite of passage for many high schoolers, students at Oakland's Skyline High School will have to wait after the homecoming date scheduled for Saturday was postponed due to a grass fire.

A candy shop in Oakland was burglarized by suspects with a sweet tooth. 

A Union City family lamented their misfortune after their home was burglarized Wednesday morning. Kelvin Ling says his parents life savings, and expensive possessions were taken by a trio of criminals who can be seen committing the crime on neighbor's surveillance video.

Firefighters have stopped the forward progression of a five-alarm fire near the freeway in Oakland at I-580 and Keller Avenue.

A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy was put on California's police officer decertification list after she was convicted of orchestrating a feces-throwing attack against a man incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail. She's one of nearly 400 officers on the POST list.

A total of 100 affordable housing now being built in Oakland's Chinatown.

Two people with outstanding warrants relating to a June 2023 homicide in San Leandro were arrested Wednesday by BART police.