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Services are being planned for a former Helena woman who was killed by a stray bullet as she walked with a friend in Oakland, California.

Back in 2005 and 2006, UC Berkeley, the city of Oakland and East Bay Regional Park District were chosen to receive highly competitive federal grants to reduce wildfire hazards in the Berkeley and Oakland hills adjacent to lands burned in a 1991 conflagration that killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,500 homes.

With three pedestrian deaths on East Bay railroad tracks last weekend - two believed to be suicides, and the other possibly someone not paying attention - coming right on the heels of three teen suicides and a bicyclist's death involving Caltrain on the Peninsula in the past two months, it's pretty clear that when trains and pedestrians clash, the ...

High-rise downtown, low-rise near the lake. A major revision to Oakland's planning code that will guide development from Lake Merritt to Chinatown was finalized Tuesday night.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Caltrans says an additional $50 million is needed to install a bypass section to the Bay Bridge Officials say about $25 million is for any unanticipated problems as workers cut through a section of the bridge, roll it north on a set of rails and then replace it with a temporary bypass leading back to the span.

The city's $650,000 settlement with the family of a man shot in the back and killed as he fled unarmed from an Oakland police officer last year was approved by the City Council in closed session Tuesday.

Oakland's former city administrator is suing over her termination by the city. Deborah Edgerly was fired July 1, 2008 over allegations that she interfered with a police investigation after her nephew was arrested in a sweep of suspected gang members.

Oakland police say a human skull and bone fragments discovered near the Oakland Estuary turned out to be from an American Indian burial site.

A dispute has arisen between Alameda County and the city of Oakland over parking at the Coliseum.

In honor of Bishop Ernestine Reems-Dickerson's 80th birthday, there will be celebrations this week at her Center of Hope Community Church and around the community.

Share + Jul 7, 2009 11:57 am US/Pacific OAKLAND Oakland police have taken over the investigation into the death of an Oakland man who was found injured on the Bay Bridge early Saturday morning.

The 20-year-old man shot and killed outside an International Boulevard liquor store Saturday was identified by police Monday as Donanthony Steward of East Oakland.

The city of Oakland is already trying to pull itself out of a financial hole, and things could get worse if city officials agree with a newly released audit of the Kids First! fund.

Dr. Tomas Magana, center, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital in Oakland, Calif., discusses a case with fourth-year medical student Blair Colwell, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at the hospital's Adolescent Medicine/Teen Clinic in Oakland.

A prosecutor told jurors today that a Richmond man should be convicted of murder for shooting an Oakland man during a confrontation and an attempted robbery outside a Berkeley bar three years ago.

A 37-year-old Hayward man was shot to death Sunday night inside his SUV in the Fruitvale district, police said.

A grateful Oakland family is crediting the Oakland police with helping them get two young children back safely after a domestic dispute turned violent Wednesday.

Fashion designer Ardis Taylor is shown with one of his 6-button double-breasted late 1930s-style suits on Thursday, June 25, 2009, in Oakland, Calif.

A person was stuck and killed Sunday morning by an Amtrak train in Oakland, the third train-related fatality in the East Bay since Friday, a company spokesman said.

Seven Oakland residents had to find a new place to stay Saturday night because a two-alarm blaze destroyed their home earlier in the day, a fire battalion chief said.