Earlier this month, city workers abruptly removed the homemade speed bumps, citing safety concerns. Residents were outraged.

Hundreds turned out for Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s community inauguration at Jack London Square’s Ferry Lawn on Sunday. The event included multiple musical performances and a host of speakers ...

Thousands of people gathered at events at OMCA, Mosswood Park, and downtown. But road closures and heavy police presence also ...

Would Oakland really be Drake’s ‘last stop’? What a huge cultural moment says about the city’s hip-hop scene Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping new single ‘Not Like Us’ places Oakland in ...

In 2019, the city of Eureka, California, roughly 275 miles north of Oakland, returned an island off its coast to the Wiyot people, nearly 160 years after the land was seized from the tribe and ...

The Oakland NAACP branch has urged authorities in the city to declare a state of emergency to fight rising crime. A stock photo shows a police officer in Oakland in 2013.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao acknowledged the city's many problems but voiced optimism Tuesday that she will be able to transform Oakland into a cleaner and safer city. "Today, let ...

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao delivered her first State of the City address on Tuesday amid widespread frustration over rising crime and a murky future for the East Bay’s largest city.