Oakland News

This 1989 " Field of Dreams " classic baseball movie quote highlights the importance of having not only a great place to play a baseball game, but also having someone to play the game with.

The Port of Oakland has temporarily ceased operations after the death of a longshoreman who drove his truck into the bay near TraPac Terminal on Friday afternoon, a port spokesman said.

Sad news out of East Oakland, via Chowhound : Genny's BBQ , reviewed favorably in The Express just two weeks ago , has been shut down due to a kitchen fire.

An Oakland woman appeared in court for the first time Friday on felony charges for allegedly causing a fatal drunk-driving crash outside Hidden Valley Lake a little more than one year ago.

Hundreds gathered Friday to remember the late grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X as mourners said Malcolm Shabazz was well on his way to cementing his own legacy.

Today, Nicholas Boer reviews Oakland's Juhu Beach Club , the long-awaited Mumbai-inspired restaurant from Top Chef alum Preeti Mistry .

News, notes and reports from the Elite 11 Regional Tryout held May 17, 2013 at the San Francisco 49ers Practice Facility and the Oakland Nike Football Training Camp held May 19, 2013 at Laney College in Oakland.

A shooting has left two dead and shut down all lanes on northbound Interstate 880 near Broadway, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Had you told Claire Stoermer early on during Season 16 of "Dancing With the Stars" that her teen daughter, Zendaya, would land in the show's finale, she might have had a good laugh.

God, science and the natural world infuse the poetry of Lucille Lang Day, whose memoir, "Married at Fourteen," is a finalist for a Northern California Book Award in creative nonfiction.

A one-alarm fire displaced three children and two adults from their East Oakland apartment Thursday afternoon, a fire battalion chief said.

A UC Berkeley graduate student faces up to 12 years in prison after pleading no contest to vehicular manslaughter for killing his girlfriend and her 6-year-old son by crashing into a tree last year while intoxicated.

Up a shaft and onto a roof. Atop a train. Alongside a freeway. Over barbed wire.

This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson's blog, which focuses on the effects of violence and trauma on the community.

An 18-year-old Oakland man, who will be prosecuted under three strikes statutes, and four other people including two juveniles, have been charged in a violent robbery last week where an 86-year-old woman was dragged on the ground before giving up her purse, authorities said Wednesday.

If you've lived in Oakland long enough, chances are, you've run across Ryan Parks - B. Hamilton's frontman, songwriter, and all-purpose id : He's the tall guy at the warehouse/bar/party with a beer permanently affixed to his hand and a theory of some kind constantly leaving his mouth; or the one semi-indecipherably singing-screaming into a mic at ... (more)

We tend to hate on Hollywood studios because of the movie projects they choose to fund .

Welcome to the Mid-Week Menu, our weekly roundup of East Bay food news. 1) Inside Scoop reports that Berkeley's zoning board has approved plans for a multi-use complex in the former Cody's Books space called Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media.

Sometimes we locals take for granted the fact that we live in such a picturesque area, but really, HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS PLACE IS? One place to soak it all in is the UC Botanical Garden , whose redwood grove - a small sliver of Muir Woods in the Berkeley Hills - is home to a tiny, two-hundred-seat, all-wooden amphitheater.

This forum will discuss who is doing the privatization and outsourcing and what labor and working people should do about it.