Oakland News

We already know he didn't want the job at first , changing his mind only after the March killing of four Oakland police officers.

Music lovers living in Contra Costa County are used to driving over to Oakland and San Francisco to see the hottest young rock bands in concert.

A new report by two people with backgrounds in geography and sustainable agriculture identifies 1,200 acres of vacant and underutilized public land in Oakland that could be used for food production.

A 24-year-old man was found guilty last week of first-degree murder for killing a father of eight during a fight outside an East Oakland home last year.

The man wanted for a 2004 murder in Oakland, California has been arrested in Las Vegas.

The old Southern Pacific Train depot at 16th and Wood streets in West Oakland, closed since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, is supposed to be the centerpiece of a new planned residential development.

A former Brazilian police officer is scheduled to enter a plea Nov. 20 to 17 felony charges involving sexual assaults on six women in Oakland and Emeryville from April to last month, authorities said Friday.

Vehicles, it seems, may be the bane of Oakland resident Samuel George Botchvaroff's existence.

Police in Las Vegas say they arrested a fugitive in a 2004 nightclub slaying in Oakland, Calif.

The singer's spokesman Gary Farrow says John was at home Friday and was feeling fine.

Stage names Sky Fell, left, and H.P. Gobblecroft, of The Hobo Gobbelins of Oakland perform during the First Friday Art Murmur event along Telegraph Avenue between 23rd and 26th Streets in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Oct.

Halloween masks decorate the dining room as patrons have dinner at the Fat Lady bar and restaurant in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct.

A 32-year-old Vallejo man was shot to death in East Oakland on Tuesday night, police said.

A key transportation committee is considering raising tolls by at least $1 on the Bay Area's seven state-owned bridges next year, but the proposal doesn't seem to be generating much controversy as only five people spoke at a public hearing on the subject Wednesday.

Up to $15,000 in reward money is being offered for the arrest of a man police say robbed the same Dimond district convenience store three times over an eight-day period.

A man who fatally shot a teenage acquaintance while playing with a handgun two years ago will spend the next 40 years to life in prison, a judge declared Wednesday, agreeing with a prosecutor that the defendant was a career criminal.

A Vallejo man was shot and killed in East Oakland, police said today. Earnest Prescott, 32, was found shot numerous times on the 2200 block of 84th Avenue at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday, said Officer Jeff Thomason, Oakland Police Department spokesman.

James Syhabout, foreground, behind the counter of Commis, his new Oakland restaurant.

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and his wife owe more than $200,000 in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.

You're not the only one with plans ruined by the Bay Bridge closure. The Houston Rockets had planned to fly into Oakland and stay in San Francisco , but ended up changing planes and landing at SFO.