Oakland News

Anti-Valentine's Day sentiment abounds these days and it seems there's an ever-growing camp of jaded V-Day non-conformers looking for ways to avoid the hearts and stuffed animals.

The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.

Women are recovering from the recession at a slower rate than men according to a new report by the California Budget Project published in partnership with the Women's Foundation of California.

Once a month, four women get together for a girls' night dinner. This is no ordinary dinner, the women dine with a purpose.

Oakland police say a woman and a man were taken into custody late Saturday just after about 50 protesters peacefully marched from a plaza.

They've been clinking beer glasses at the Kingfish. The beloved, ramshackle Oakland dive bar has inched closer to attaining landmark status, an important first victory in its effort to dodge a developer's wrecking ball.

This past week, conservators from the Oakland Museum of California came to take the model and its display case back to the museum.

Calling Oakland a food desert ignores a landscape of farmers markets, community gardens, food-justice startups and small stores that are trying to counteract the rising tide of obesity and diet-related diseases.

Several police motorcycles followed the crowd, which chanted "Out of your homes and into the streets!" and "The system has got to die!" The march occurred two weeks after police arrested more than 400 people after protestors attempted to enter the Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium and broke into Oakland City Hall.

Traditionally known as F*ckFBIFriday, this weekend's eve turned into F*ckCIAFriday, as hacktivists downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States cia.gov. Concerned with the continuous acts of police brutality perpetrated by law enforcement in Oakland, California, the online group Anonymous has published the ... (more)

As pastor of All Saints Episcopal Church, the Rev. Betsey Monnot believes in both the word of God and the work of Darwin.

Once upon a time you could board an electric train in Oakland and travel through a tunnel in the hills, pass by a bunch of Contra Costa cities, end up in Chico and never change your seat.

Officers responded to a 5:55 a.m. report of shots fire in the 2800 block of 35th Avenue, near Allendale Avenue, Officer Kevin McDonald said.

Officers responded to a 5:55 a.m. report of shots fire in the 2800 block of 35th Avenue, near Allendale Avenue, Officer Kevin McDonald said.

It's official - the vote totals released Wednesday as complete unofficial returns for the Feb.

"I am proud of the progress we made in such a short period of time and greatly appreciate the help, partnerships, and backing that emerged from a widely diverse base of support," Neal, 62, of Oakland, said in a statement issued early Friday morning.

Occupy Oakland sympathizers aren't just targeting cyber attacks at council members and top city administrators; they've also gone after at least one of the organizers of a recently formed anti-Occupy citizens group.

The brother of a man accused of killing his girlfriend and successfully hiding her body provided a jury a small glimpse into the life of Eric Mora during months before and after Mora's girlfriend went missing on Thanksgiving 2004.

An optician accused of shooting and wounding a federal customs agent appeared again in court Friday, the day after authorities released court records that painted him as increasingly obsessed with the victim's wife.

The city of Oakland on Friday started court proceedings to shut down two motels that have for decades been hubs of prostitution, including child prostitution.