Oakland News

A California Highway Patrol officer providing traffic control for the Amgen Tour of California was seriously injured Saturday afternoon in Brentwood.

"I found Oakland to be the biggest surprise of my life," said the Most Rev. Alex J. Brunett, who since Oct.

Three events surround the ordination and installation of the Most Rev. Michael C. Barber SJ, as the fifth Bishop of Oakland.

The Rev. Michael C. Barber, SJ, who will become Oakland's fifth bishop on May 25, has served as far away as Micronesia, Toronto and England, and as close to home as Menlo Park, where he helped train men who are serving as priests in the diocese.

A crime scene technician, right, searches a purse at the scene of a homicide near the intersection of 12th and Peralta Streets on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in Oakland, Calif.

Even the though the 2014 election season in Oakland is over a year away that doesn't preclude potential candidates from starting early.

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.