Oakland has received a $30 million grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Regional Measure 3 program to build the Martin Luther King Jr.

At least one street in Oakland was in the dark for more than 24 hours but it never showed up in PG&E’s outage map. Sabrina Nichols is renting on 56th Street near MLK Jr. Way and said the lights went ...

To ease its deepening housing crisis, Oakland is planning for as many as 36,000 new homes over the next decade — potentially expanding the total number of households in the city by almost a quarter.

Google Maps seems to have gotten itself involved in a naming debate that has the company siding with protesters camped out in Oakland's central plaza. Officially named Frank Ogawa Plaza, the open ...

The Web site of The Oakland Tribune offers a detailed, interactive map of the city showing the locations of homicides and names and photos of the victims. Tribune editor Martin Reynolds talks about ...