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 ...

The city plans to name a street after a family-run construction company that has remained open for three decades in an otherwise neglected East Oakland commercial corridor along Hegenberger Road. The ...

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 ...

Update: The last evacuation order was lifted on Sunday night. The wildfire that started Friday in the hills of Oakland is about 5 miles from where a 1991 fire burned 1,520 acres and killed 25 people.