Business & Tech Oakland's Cannabis Delivery & Dispensary Industry Plagued By Crime; Leaders Fear Loss Of Minority Business Owners Some local leaders say that crime plaguing Oakland's cannabis delivery and dispensary industry over the past few years puts minority business owners at greater risk of closure.
SF News Another Person Has Died In an Encampment Fire, This Time In West Oakland One person has been reported dead in an encampment fire at a longstanding West Oakland encampment involving several RVs.
SF News Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation at Oakland Courthouse There was a bomb scare Monday morning at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in downtown Oakland after a man came in off the street carrying a small, homemade explosive device that he said had been planted on his car.
SF News Murder and Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Oakland Gas Station Shooting Charges have now been filed and more details are emerging in a March 19 shooting at an East Oakland gas station, caught on video, in which a 64-year-old Army veteran was killed and a 21-year-old woman was paralyzed.
SF News Fatal Shooting of Elderly Man In Oakland Leads to Multi-Car Collision A multi-vehicle crash on Sunday in Oakland's Fruitvale District looks to be the result of a fatal shooting in a different location, and now has become a homicide investigation.
SF News East Oakland Gas Station Shooting Leaves Innocent Bystander Dead, Another Woman Injured A 64-year-old Army veteran from San Joaquin County was caught in the crossfire and killed in a Saturday night double-shooting near San Leandro, and while another woman was shot too, police are detaining her because they say “She is a person who is involved in this crime.”
SF News Yet Another Encampment Fire, This Time at Oakland Tiny-House Complex An ostensibly safer and more regulated encampment for the homeless in Oakland experienced a fire Monday morning much like the many that have broken out in the last year in unsanctioned encampments.
SF News Mummified Body Found In Oakland Convention Center Wall Was Likely Three to Five Years Old, Foul Play Not Suspected The story of the mummified body discovered inside a wall at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland has taken a turn for the less dramatic, and perhaps more tragic.
SF News Ack! Mummified Body Found Inside Wall of Old Oakland Convention Center Construction workers tearing down walls at the long defunct Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland made a gruesome discovery Wednesday: a mummified corpse of indeterminate age or sex.
SF News Sacramento Man Convicted of Trafficking Oakland Teen Whom He Busted Out of a Group Home In a story that involves both a jailbreak and breaking a minor out of a group home, the dust has finally settled, and the feds won a conviction of Sacramento man Robert Pierre Duncan.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fan Beaten in L.A. is Out of Coma, Standing On Own Two Feet Oakland chef and 49ers fan Daniel Luna is out of his medically induced coma after a parking lot beating during the Niners-Rams game in late January, and while he has plenty of rehab ahead, his recovery is exceeding expectations.
SF News Thieves Use SUV to Ram Metal Door of Oakland Dispensary, Clean the Place Out of Product A group of pot burglars targeted a dispensary inside the old Parkway Theater space in Oakland, and the way they got inside involved using a Lexus SUV to slam a roll-up door.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego-Based Modern Times Brewery Closes Oakland Taproom After Two Years Citing the pandemic and "global declines in the craft beer industry," popular San Diego-based beer brand Modern Times announced Tuesday that it's shuttering four of its West Coast taprooms, including one that it opened in Oakland in December 2019.
SF News Protesters Stage Walkout at Oakland Tech High School to Protest School Closures On Thursday morning, teachers, parents, students, and other supporters of Oakland schools gathered outside Oakland Tech High School to stage a walkout.
SF News In the Wake of Three Highway Shootings, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Wants Cameras on I-80 There have been three fatal shootings in three months on Oakland highways, so Mayor Schaaf says it's time for cameras. The problem? It’s not her decision.
SF News West Oakland ISIS Wannabe Gets Sentence Reduced After Terrorism Charges Dropped An East Bay man who’d tried to get recruited by ISIS in 2016, but was dealing with undercover FBI instead, had his sentence reduced from 16 years to seven years, after an appeals court decided that his Twitter threats did not constitute actual terrorism.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Cellarmaker Brewing to Take Over Former Blue Bottle Warehouse In Oakland for New Pizza and Beer Spot The San Francisco craft beer stars behind Cellarmaker Brewing Co., who three years ago surprised us with a shockingly good pizzeria to go with their always good and often hoppy beers, are now expanding to Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oliveto Is Back Open In Oakland, Temporarily, Pending Ownership Change The new year may be a slog of bad pandemic news so far, but there is some brightness on the restaurant horizon today on several fronts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Soul Food Destination Brown Sugar Kitchen Has Permanently Closed A nearly 15-year ride that made chef Tanya Holland a soul food celebrity has come to an end, as Brown Sugar Kitchen announces it will not be reopening its doors after its holiday hiatus.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Was Robbed at Gunpoint In Oakland Two armed thieves in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood likely didn't know they were robbing the current reigning champion of Jeopardy!, but Amy Schneider was robbed of her wallet and phone on Sunday — and she's okay.
SF News Serial Armed Robbery Suspect From Stockton Charged With Nov. Murder of Young Woman at Lake Merritt A 33-year-old man from Stockton has been charged with the November 11 murder and attempted robbery of 22-year-old Devani Aleman Sanchez, on a street next to Lake Merritt — and he's been connected to multiple other armed robberies.
SF News Oakland Marks 134th Homicide With Shooting at Lake Merritt on Christmas Eve Around 8:15 p.m. Friday, Oakland police responded to a cul-de-sac near Lake Merritt that has been the scene of multiple violent incidents this year, and found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
SF News 36-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Fatal Skateboard Beating of Homeless Man, And It’s Not His First Time, Either This is the second skateboard beating charge for Joshua Stroman of Oakland, and this one was fatal, making it Oakland’s 131st homicide of the year — the most since 2012.
SF News Oakland Opens Mass COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Site at Frank Ogawa Plaza Need a COVID test or booster shot fast before the holidays? Oakland may be your best bet, as Frank Ogawa Plaza outside Oakland City Hall is performing them free through the holidays, though for rapid tests “cost may apply.”
SF News Amtrak Trains Hits Car in Oakland, Reportedly No One Injured Early reports indicate a vehicle was on the tracks at High Street, and a train collided with it, but no one was hurt and the trains are running again.
