Oakland News

Officials say two men are safe after their plane made an emergency landing into a rock quarry in Oakland Monday afternoon.

Two men were fatally shot late Saturday when their car was fired upon at a West Oakland housing project that used to be the main turf of a violent drug gang broken up by police last month.

A 47-year-old man drove into a pole near Lake Merritt in Oakland this morning and died in his car, according to the Alameda County coroner's bureau.

Companies planning to build huge solar power plants in the desert will be able to file new applications to use federal lands after the Bureau of Land Management reversed its position on the issue Tuesday.

Oakland firefighters tackled a three-alarm blaze that jumped from the roof of one Victorian building to an adjacent one today, a fire official said.

The first one blew a gaping hole in the side of his head; the second one, his chest.

A "state of the art" indoor marijuana grow was discovered and more than $100,000 worth of the weed seized at a house near Redwood Heights Elementary School, police said Friday.

Police today are continuing to investigate three fatal shootings in Oakland since Monday morning that have brought the city's total homicides this year to 68.

DeLauer's Super Newsstand, the iconic downtown Oakland store that narrowly escaped closure last week, could become a one-stop commuter service center, offering people newspapers, Internet access and wireless ...

Authorities say two men have been killed in a helicopter crash near a Northern California freeway that knocked power lines into traffic lanes and started a grass fire near the road.

Three non-fatal shootings this evening and one fatal shooting this afternoon made for a violent day in Oakland, said police.

Tree sitter known as Dumpster Muffin comes down voluntarily from a redwood tree at the oak grove next to the Memorial Stadium in Berkeley on Wednesday.

About 500 renters filed suit against Oakland Community Housing Inc. today, accusing the nonprofit housing developer of breaking a 30-year requirement to provide housing to low-income residents at the California ...

Officials from the Bay Area's three largest cities are hoping to avoid mandatory water rationing by getting people to voluntarily cut their water use.

Oakland Police will be out in full-force for this year's 4th of July celebration, despite past struggles.

Two more victims have been added to the city's 2008 homicide tally after a man was shot to death Tuesday night at a gas station and authorities determined that another man fatally shot inside his house Monday ...

Porky's Pizza Palace one day, Pizzaiolo the next. Two very different types of pizza parlors, each catering to a specific clientele, yet both are family oriented and kid-friendly. Porky's is in my neighborhood ...

A reputed drug dealer was sentenced today to 57 years to life in state prison for murdering a rival and shooting a 4-year-old girl who will have two bullet fragments in her back for the rest of her life.

Mayor Ron Dellums fired City Administrator Deborah Edgerly Tuesday, bringing to a close one chapter of a City Hall drama, but possibly opening another.

OAKLAND Police Tuesday identified Zaire Washington as the 24-year-old Oakland man killed in the city Monday night.