On Sunday, dozens of demonstrators gathered near the area of Grand Avenue and Park View Terrace near Lake Merritt. In ...

Founded in 1950 on the shores of Lake Merritt, the Fairyland amusement park celebrated its 75th birthday through a special ...

The eatery has 160-plus flavors of cheesecake, loaded brisket fries and something really meaty called “Chiblam.” ...

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

The city of Oakland is clearing encampments around Lake Merritt starting Wednesday April 1. It is giving people in tents at Peralta Park seven days to move. Outreach teams are providing shelter ...

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.

environmentalists and a Bureau of Reclamation partnership are all now flowing together to help California’s quickly receding lake, with a state-run conservancy helping to oversee it all.

Today, Oakland’s economic and public safety challenges certainly still exist, but the new year is feeling like a turning point. Violent crime dropped by 19% from 2023 to 2024, according to an ...

During the first two days of February, an atmospheric river dumped torrential rain over California, triggering widespread landslides, 'Biblical' flooding and sending Lake Berryessa's water level ...