A few years ago, 300 low-income families in East Oakland began receiving $500 a month. Cold, hard cash, with no strings ...

A motive has not been determined yet in the Wednesday morning shooting of a man walking to an Oakland homeless camp.

Oakland announced it is opening a new homeless shelter this week and move-ins are already underway. The former Extended Stay ...

Formerly homeless residents from three big encampments are already moving into a newly converted transitional housing project ...

Leslie Pielack has been surprised at the numbers of people who have visited a traveling exhibit highlighting Oakland County connections to the Underground Railroad. “It’s unbelievably popular ...

Gary Le Vox is teaming up with Akon and De la Ghetto for his upcoming summer single. On Tuesday, the Rascal Flatts frontman was spotted in Hollywood, Florida, filming a video for his song ...

OAKLAND — Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins on Monday fired all remaining office staff who had worked for recalled Mayor Sheng Thao, a day after dismissing Thao’s former chief of staff over a note ...

A little over 30 years ago, Howard Hardy visited a cousin who was chopping wood with an axe he said was made in Oakland. Intrigued, Hardy began keeping an eye out for other locally crafted cutting ...

A high-ranking city official in Oakland, California, has been fired over a resurfaced note that showed her referring to black people as “tokens,” according to reports. Chief of staff Leigh ...

Taylor, who represented portions of East Oakland on the City Council, narrowly lost the 2022 bid for mayor. He is widely seen as the only challenger to Lee in the race, though there are nine ...

A mayoral race that was supposed to be an easy win for former Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee has turned into a close contest with a week left to go before Oakland, California, voters head to the ...