Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Oakland

Stephen L. Carter: Elon Musk can’t avoid paying Twitter’s rent forever

The weird merry-go-round involving Twitter’s unpaid bills shows no sign of slowing. On this whirl, it is KKR suing the social media company for failing to pay rent on office space in Oakland, California. Already in arrears in Boston, San Francisco and London, the beleaguered bird is now facing a…

Tribune News Service

Blindspotting season 2: release date, cast, trailer and everything we know about the comedy series

Based on the Sundance hit movie, Blindspotting season 2 returns to Oakland to catch up with Ashley, Miles and company. Here's what we know.

WhatToWatch

Mind the rind: Bay Area cheese classes offer deep, delicious dive into curds

SAN FRANCISCO — “Always taste from mild to wild,” proclaims Caitlin O’Neill, a certified cheese professional with The Cheese School of San Francisco.

Tribune News Service

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Peet's Coffee worker killed in Oakland roof collapse was a 17-year employee

A longtime employee at a Peet's Coffee distribution center in Oakland, California, died and another worker was injured when the roof of a warehouse partially collapsed early Friday.

Los Angeles Times

Is there an end in sight for Oakland’s ransomware crisis?

OAKLAND, California — A ransomware attack against Oakland that has affected city services and exposed reams of sensitive personnel data is creating a nightmare for city officials who aren’t sure what it will take to resolve the crisis.

Tribune News Service

"No constitutional right to housing"

Eviction of 300-person encampment in California shows scorn for right to housing

Salon

Community workers fan out to persuade immigrant seniors to get covered

OAKLAND, Calif. — For three years, Bertha Embriz of San Francisco has gone without health insurance, skipping annual wellness exams and recently tolerating a broken molar by trying not to chew with it. As an immigrant without legal status, the 58-year-old unpaid caregiver knew that California’s Medicaid program was closed…

Tribune News Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Oakland police investigating spate of shootings that left 1 dead, 5 wounded

Oakland, California, police investigated a run of shootings across the city late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, including a killing in the city’s Chinatown district and several shootings in East Oakland that left five people injured.

Tribune News Service

East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee kicks off U.S. Senate campaign in Oakland

SAN JOSE, Calif. — East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee kicked off her U.S. Senate campaign Saturday before a few hundred supporters filling the risers and basketball hardwood at Laney College’s gymnasium in her hometown of Oakland — formally launching her bid for the seat Sen. Dianne Feinstein has held for…

Tribune News Service

California signs off on Oakland’s plan to add 26,000 new homes

State regulators have signed off on Oakland’s plan to add at least 26,000 new homes over the next decade — meaning the Bay Area’s third-largest city is no longer at risk of missing out on crucial funding or losing control over local development rules.

Tribune News Service

Thousands of California residents plunged into darkness due to fire at PG&E substation

The outage caused security lines at the Oakland airport to come to a standstill

The Independent UK

Power cut to 50,000 customers amid fire at Pacific Gas & Electric substation in Oakland

A transformer caught fire Sunday afternoon at a Pacific Gas & Electric substation in East Oakland, cutting power to tens of thousands of people across the East Bay.

Tribune News Service

Power slowly returns after outage, fire at Pacific Gas & Electric substation in Oakland

A transformer caught fire Sunday afternoon at a Pacific Gas & Electric substation in East Oakland, California, cutting power to tens of thousands of people across the East Bay.

Tribune News Service

'The next thing I knew, I was on the ground': Bay Area bike riders tell of attacks

On the evening of Feb. 10, Eleanor Mead was riding her bike in Oakland on the way to the East Bay Bike Party, a meet-up of dozens of bicyclists who then pedal through the San Francisco Bay Area streets.

Los Angeles Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - US

Charismatic cats: mountain lion besties gain TikTok following

Rescued cubs Holly and Hazel now spend their days cuddling after being found in the Santa Cruz mountains

The Guardian - US

‘Unsung hero’: the baker and activist whose death inspired calls for restorative justice

After Jen Angel’s shocking death, loved ones honor her legacy of punk zines, gourmet dinner nights and social justice projects

Tribune News Service

Vahe Gregorian: Ned Yost enters Royals Hall of Fame as epitome of their rise from futility to glory

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A few weeks before I started at The Kansas City Star in June 2013, I was getting acclimated to the Kansas City sports scene when I read of Royals manager Ned Yost’s rant in Oakland about the struggles of young Mike Moustakas.

Los Angeles Times

Oakland police chief is out. Mayor cites report on officer misconduct

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao fired city Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on Wednesday after an investigation into Armstrong’s handling of police misconduct cases.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Oakland fires police chief for alleged misconduct cover-up

The Oakland Police Department has lost its seventh head of police in as many years over the alleged cover-up of an officer’s misconduct

Bangkok Post

Thai hit-and-run driver to be extradited to US

A 57-year-old Thai woman wanted for a fatal hit-and-run accident in the United States on Jan 1 has been arrested in Ratchaburi and will be extradited for trial, police said.

Los Angeles Times

Ex-worker says Shake Shack told him to 'explain his gender' to colleagues. He's getting $20,000

Hamburger chain Shake Shack has agreed to pay $20,000 to a former employee of an Oakland, California, location who said he was misgendered by co-workers and did not receive support from management when he reported it.

Daily Mirror

Inside eerie abandoned Osama Bin Laden's $7.5million family mansion in Florida

An eerily abandoned mansion on Johns Lake in Oakland, Florida, US was home to Osama Bin Laden's family, who was the world's most wanted man since the 9/11 terror attacks

Daily Mirror

Beloved baker fighting for life after being dragged by car during violent robbery

Jennifer Angel, a baker in Oakland, California, who was popular among her community, was targeted by robbers as she was sitting in her car in the parking lot of a bank in San Francisco, US

Tribune News Service

Black-led group wants to prove skeptics wrong with big dreams and sports teams for Oakland Coliseum

OAKLAND, Calif. — For the past decade, the vast Coliseum complex in East Oakland has increasingly felt like a forsaken land, its once proud ballpark and arena on a path to concrete ruin following the departures of the Raiders and Warriors and likely the A’s.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Former Celtic Kevin Garnett and JR Rider on their time guarding NBA greats Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

In the exclusive interview, KG gets into it with the Oakland native to talk about playing against legends Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, and Rider's history as an NBA All-Star Dunk Contest icon.

1 … 12 13 14 15

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Oakland Police Department

14 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

San Francisco Bay Area

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.