Oakland News

Retired BART police chief will return to begin an assessment of the department's reforms since the shooting death of Oscar Grant.

Q I commute on Interstate 880 from Fremont to Emeryville. For quite some time there have been areas of construction.

The installation of new energy-efficient streetlights throughout Oakland will save money in the long run and help deter crime, city officials said Tuesday.

A 21-year-old Oakland man has been arrested in connection with a February slaying in Berkeley, police said Tuesday night.

On Tuesday evening, the Oakland City Council will consider granting a 30-month lease to Oakland Maritime Support Services , a company that currently provides truck parking for the city on a month-to-month lease at the former Oakland Army Base.

According to Our Oakland blog , ~HUTCH BAR & KITCHEN~ has softly opened and the kitchen is just ramping up this week.

MICHAEL JAMES, MICHAEL B. JORDAN, TRESTIN GEORGE, THOMAS WRIGHT, KEVIN DURAND and ALEJANDRA NOLASCO star in FRUITVALE STATION The Weinstein Company.

In Judy Juanita's first novel "Virgin Soul," the author, poet, and playwright takes readers on a journey in the life of Geniece Hightower as she matures from a freshman at Oakland City College to becoming an active member of the Black Panther Party in the 1960's.

A Castro Valley restaurant robbery suspect who was shot and killed by an Alameda County sheriff's deputy was a parolee with a long rap sheet, authorities said Tuesday.

From left to right, front row- ACT-SO winners Jermaine Cobbs, Chyna Kane-Ross, and Hyida Burgass, NAACP Oakland Imani Youth Council President Mercedes Hawkins, Second Vice President Jamila Coleman; back row- ACT-SO winners Cameron Jones and Justin Jones, NAACP Oakland Imani Youth Council Treasurer Tyler Waugh and Vice President Jonathan ... (more)

The LED lights are 40 percent to 60 percent more efficient than traditional high-pressure sodium bulbs, and city staffers say the energy savings will not only finance the $14.4 million project, but also will save the city an additional $7.7 million over fifteen years.

Two men and a woman dove in to a California estuary on Sunday to rescue a family, including two children, trapped in a vehicle about to submerge.

When you buy a house, you know things are going to break. Is it worth paying hundreds of dollars a year to repair or replace your furnace, washing machine, refrigerator or other major appliance when it breaks? Only you can decide.

There are two public meetings remaining to discuss the West of Hills Northern Pipelines Project planned by the East Bay Municipal Utilities District.

Sci Fi Bob Ekman has posted this great circa 1962 footage of Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California.

They call Ruth Villa the mother of the Black Panther Party. She was there from the beginning helping with the party's free breakfast programs and giving out shoes to poor children.

A little blood is left on the mattress near the bullet hole in the wall at the Tran family home in West Oakland, Calif.

OCTOBER 08: First year student Tom Partington peruses the books in Blackwell bookshop as Oxford University commences its academic year on October 8, 2009 in Oxford, England.

A 21-year-old man was charged with murder Friday for the April 20 fatal shooting of a former friend outside an East Oakland liquor store, police said.

Oakland police shut down traffic through the Webster Street Tube for almost an hour Monday afternoon while officers engaged in a standoff with a mentally unstable man, according to authorities.