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Oakland shuts down another 5 miles of roadway for Slow Streets Program
Oakland city officials on Thursday announced an additional 5 miles of streets that will receive soft closures to help support physical distancing during the Covid-19 coronavirus response. As part...Read More
City partners with nonprofits to open free East Oakland testing facility
The city of Oakland on Wednesday opened a new free Covid-19 coronavirus testing site in East Oakland in a partnership with Roots Community Health Center and the nonprofit Community...Read More
City launches RV park to shelter 130 East Oakland homeless people through pandemic and beyond
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Tuesday that the city is launching an isolation trailer program to house 130 homeless and medically vulnerable people in East Oakland during the new...Read More
Court releases Almena on $150,000 bail pending delayed Ghost Ship trial
Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena was released on $150,000 bail on Monday after spending nearly three years in jail on charges stemming from a 2016 fire at...Read More
Covid-19 update: Bay Area braces for another month under shelter as U.S. cases near one million mark
Tests have confirmed more than three million cases of Covid-19 globally — nearly one-third of them are in the U.S. Alliances were a theme Monday with the addition of...Read More
Oakland firefighters battle three-story house blaze
Oakland firefighters as of 5:45 p.m. Sunday are battling a house fire in the 1400 block of Mountain Boulevard, between the Montclair and Glen Highlands neighborhoods just east of...Read More
Police say man arrested for shelter noncompliance was selling heroin, cocaine, fentanyl
A 20-year-old Oakland man who was warned about violating the shelter-in-place order and refused to comply was arrested later Saturday night by officers from the San Francisco police Tenderloin...Read More
Covid-19 update: Newsom calls on masses to volunteer, Bay Area scrambles to feed, educate, shelter those in need
Despite heaviness that comes with the fight against the 2019 novel coronavirus, there are glimmers of hope in how leaders, organizations and people are stepping up to help communities...Read More
Fundraiser keeps Oakland students, families fed as it turns attention to distance learning technology
The Oakland Unified School District, Oakland Public Education Fund and the city of Oakland announced Tuesday that more than $1.5 million has been to support students and their families...Read More
Sergeant says suspect arrested for carjacking after no-bail release is downside to new policy
A suspect has been arrested for allegedly carjacking one car and attempting to carjack a second vehicle shortly after he’d been released without bail from Santa Rita Jail in...Read More
Apartment complex fire displaces eight people near Lake Merritt
A fire at an apartment building north of Lake Merritt in Oakland on Tuesday morning left eight people displaced, a fire spokesman said. The blaze was reported at 7:53...Read More
East Bay SPCA hosts second Oakland drive-through pet food pantry
The East Bay SPCA this week is offering another pet food pantry to residents that need help feeding their dogs or cats during the novel coronavirus pandemic. This week’s...Read More
Hit-and-run driver kills pedestrian in unmarked crosswalk
A 55-year-old Oakland man crossing the street was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Saturday night. Police were called to the 2600 block of 35th Avenue shortly after...Read More
Police investigate Lower Dimond fatal shooting
A man was fatally shot in Oakland’s Lower Dimond District on Monday morning, police said. Officers who responded to a report of a shooting in the 3100 block of...Read More
Covid-19 update: landmark bookstores need saving, SF shelter confirms 76 cases, holidays offer some hope
Today is considered holy for many across the nation and world over, and in that light it may be comforting to reflect on words and insights associated with Easter...Read More
Covid-19 update: BART cuts back service, county issues isolation order, exposure prompts Moscone West reconfiguration
The number of Bay Area deaths related to Covid-19 is nearing 100, though the nine-county region saw the smallest daily increase in two weeks. Here are your local Monday...Read More
New Oakland site will test up to 240 direct service workers a day
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and community partners on Monday opened a Covid-19 coronavirus testing site for direct service providers, such as healthcare workers, grocery store and food bank employees,...Read More
Schaaf taps former SF transportation chief to become Oakland city administrator
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced on Friday that she’s appointed former San Francisco transportation chief Edward Reiskin to be her city’s new permanent city administrator. Reiskin worked for the...Read More