Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers in Oakland were without power Thursday afternoon, officials said. The unplanned outage was first reported shortly after 4 p.m. and was affecting ...

A well-known 77-year-old University of California, Berkeley sociology professor was killed in a hit-and-run collision while ...

A third soon-to-open Tuff Shed camp will 'resolve' homelessness around the lake, but unsheltered residents are planning a protest. Nino Parker (right) said homeless residents around Lake Merritt ...

Last April, vandals toppled several century-old lampposts along Lake Merritt in Oakland and ripped out the valuable wires. And this week, a Vallejo school was forced to abruptly close after its ...

Prosecutors charged JaJuan Kelly, 23, with four counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm for allegedly shooting four people on the evening of June 19 at Oakland's Lake Merritt.

(BCN) — A well-known 77-year-old University of California, Berkeley sociology professor was killed in a hit-and-run collision while crossing the street near Oakland’s Lake Merritt on Monday.

Cowell in Department 11 of the Rene C. Davidson Alameda County Courthouse near Oakland's Lake Merritt. Marsh, who was also known as drag artist Touri Monroe, was a hair stylist and a Miss Gay Oakland ...

Off Lake Merritt Boulevard, near the lake's most southwest ... Lastly, the backdrop of the lake and the Oakland Hills is nice.

Raka Ray, the dean of social sciences at Berkeley, said in a statement to HuffPost that she was “reeling” from the news about Burawoy, who mentored her when she arrived at the university as an ...