Kevin Jenkins arrived at Oakland City Hall for a City Council meeting recently as a first-term council member still making a name for himself. He departed several hours later as the interim mayor of a ...

Pablo Rincon, 27, was shot and killed at Burckhalter Park in Oakland on Dec. 27, just three days after his birthday, ...

A brave Alaska Airlines flight attendant stops an assault from a drunken and drugged attacker. Here's the shocking video ...

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her boyfriend, and two Oakland-based businessmen were in federal court this week on widespread charges of bribery and fraud.

Mario Juarez had been charged over election mailers that are now at the center of an alleged criminal conspiracy by Oakland’s ex-mayor and a rich and influential family that owns a waste ...

The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday that a 24-year-old Oakland man was charged in connection with ...

An alleged North Richmond gang member has been charged with murdering 32-year-old Willie Bernstine, a father of two who was ...

Legendary Bay Area news anchor Dennis Richmond, one of the nation’s first Black anchors of a major market TV newscast who ...

The second and final part of Tarmo Hannula's account of his recent trip to Oakland via train. Look for more of his writing in ...

Just Baseball dives into the ZiPS projections for the Athletics to highlight some of the numbers that stand out – both the ...

In the U.S., owning a home is often less expensive than renting one, although both still impose significant financial burdens ...