Imagine standing along the shores of Oakland’s Lake Merritt, but instead of seeing the downtown skyline you see Native American shellmounds, a roller coaster and grizzly bears. That’s the idea behind ...

OAKLAND — Many longtime Oakland residents have heard of the Key System, the bus and streetcars that served commuters in the East Bay for decades before the advent of BART. But few probably know about ...

Hearing Oakland police sirens outside your bedroom? Now you don’t even have to look outside to find out what’s going on. The Oakland Police Department last week launched its real-time crime mapping ...

The new program Oakland Slow Streets launching Saturday will close 74 miles of streets to through traffic to give Oakland residents more space to safely walk, run and cycle during the coronavirus ...

Many Oakland residents can now find out whether their home might be seismically unsafe. The nonprofit civic organization Open Oakland this week launched a website that maps many of the seismically ...