Starting next Tuesday, city officials said, efforts to “replant trees and other plants” will lead them to clear tents around Lake Merritt’s 3.4-mile perimeter.

Police are investigating after someone was stabbed while sleeping inside a car a few blocks from Oakland's Lake Merritt over the weekend.

Seventy years ago, civic boosters like Frank Ogawa gifted hundreds of the cotton-candy flowered trees to Oakland. Today, just ...

This week, the city of Oakland will begin clearing encampments around Lake Merritt as part of efforts to beautify the area. People living in tents have been given notice to move.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — The City of Oakland is ordering around 20 people living in encampments near Lake Merritt to move. In a few days, the city plans to begin its revegetation project in ...

A person appears to have been struck by a BART train at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland on Sunday night ... Service is currently shut down between the Lake Merritt and Coliseum stations, BART ...

So it was like digging up gold to find, on the website of the archival organization California Revealed ... fire helmets that the Oakland Fire Department often passed out to kids. Also seen is the ...

The Lake Merritt amusement park opened its doors in 1950 to more than a half-million visitors, including Walt Disney, in its ...

The city of Oakland is clearing encampments around Lake Merritt starting Wednesday April 1. It is giving people in tents at ...