SF News Sanctioned RV Lot for Homeless In Oakland Delayed After Some Encampment Dwellers Refuse to Leave A planned RV and vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless in West Oakland, similar to one that opened last year in SF, is getting delayed as the property owner is now entering an eviction fight with a group of encampment residents who refused to leave under the city's orders last fall.
SF News Car Passenger In Critical Condition After I-580 Freeway Shooting In Oakland An unidentified passenger in a vehicle traveling on eastbound I-580 in Oakland this morning was shot and critically wounded in what's being characterized by authorities as a targeted hit.
SF News Video of an Armed Robbery On a Woman's Doorstep Has an Oakland Neighborhood on Edge A Ring doorbell video of a woman being accosted and robbed by an armed thief on her doorstep in the Eastmont Hills neighborhood of Oakland has been cause for fresh alarm for neighbors — and it's part of an apparent uptick in armed robberies around the Oakland hills.
SF News Car Found In Oakland Hit-and-Run; Berkeley Hit-and Run Driver Still At Large A vehicle has been recovered but the driver of it remains at large in connection with a Friday hit-and-run collision that took the life of an Oakland mother outside her child's school.
SF News Oakland Homeless Group 'The Village' Constructs Tiny House Community On Median Over the MLK Day weekend, a group that has previously constructed unsanctioned "villages" of makeshift tiny houses as homeless encampments built another one on a strip of land in Oakland, calling it the Right to Exist Curbside Community.
SF News Scenes From The 2020 Women's Marches Across The Bay Area Thousands of protesters, dawning pink headwear and wielding frank signage, marched San Francisco's City Hall yesterday afternoon, chanting "together we rise" in glorious unison. Similar demonstrations — of equal candor and conviction — were seen throughout the Bay Area, as well.
SF News Newsom Pledges 'Wonderful Things' For Moms 4 Housing Group As he wrapped up a statewide tour of programs to address homelessness on Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom called the protesting moms in West Oakland "courageous," and said that his staff would be meeting with them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Restaurant Openings: Magpie, Viridian, and Kitchen Story Make Debuts With the holidays behind us, new restaurants and bars are starting to emerge out from under their construction dust on both sides of the Bay. And in Oakland, there are three debuts to talk about this week.
SF News Newsom Wraps Up Homeless Tour Today In Oakland With Showcase Of Trailers Governor Gavin Newsom is concluding a four-day tour of homelessness outreach operations across the state with a stop near the Oakland Coliseum where he'll be showing off a key component of his new state program.
SF News After Arrests and Eviction, Moms 4 Housing Group Plots Next Steps The two women who were arrested Tuesday morning at the home in which they were squatting in West Oakland were released following misdemeanor charges. Now the group Moms 4 Housing is hoping they can keep the momentum going.
SF News Oakland Kicks Off ‘Homelessness Audit’ In Hopes of Better Managing Encampments One of Moms 4 Housing’s biggest advocates at Oakland City Hall is demanding answers on how many encampments are in Oakland, and whether the city’s $32 million annual investment is even making a dent.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Group Evicted and 3 Arrested In Dramatic Pre-Dawn Raid Perhaps this was the Alameda County Sheriff's Department's idea of ending things peacefully and without incident, but two of the homeless mothers who have been squatting at a West Oakland residence since November were met with a militaristic raid early Tuesday morning.
SF News Laptop Theft Victim Shot In Hip At Bus Stop In North Oakland Another person was violently robbed of their laptop in Oakland on Friday, and this time the victim was shot in the course of the robbery.
SF News Oakland Man Freed After Three Mistrials; Charges Dropped In 2011 Double Murder An Oakland man who has spent the last five years in jail was let free on Monday following three mistrials with deadlocked juries, the last of which ended in October.
SF News Two Convicted Felons To Face Murder and Manslaughter Charges In Death of Laptop Theft Victim Two previously convicted robbers have been arrested and are facing charges in the New Year's Eve death of a 34-year-old Oakland man whose laptop computer they were allegedly trying to steal.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Hearing Draws Huge Crowd, Judge Agrees to Consider Case The moms can remain at the West Oakland house they’ve crashed for now, but a final ruling is expected in the next 24 hours as an Alameda County Superior Court judge declined to toss out their request to stay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved San Diego Brewery, Modern Times Beer, Opens In Oakland With The House Of Perpetual Refreshment With 34 beers on tap and various cold brew coffees available — all poured inside a chromatic, hallucinatory wonderland of quirky decor and knick-knack embellishments — Modern Times Beer’s new Oakland taproom is a sight to behold.
SF News Oakland Homeless Encampments Compared To Mexico City and Delhi Slums A new interactive piece from the New York Times' San Francisco bureau chief explores the High Street homeless encampment in East Oakland, and includes interviews with residents there who are simply trying to survive after falling on hard times.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sasaki Chef to Open Masabaga In Oakland Featuring Wagyu, Toro Burgers Noted Bay Area sushi chef Masa Sasaki is bringing his love of burgers and fried fatty tuna to downtown Oakland early next year, as he gets set to open Masabaga.
SF News Oakland’s Sweeping Affordable Housing Plan Has Produced Zero Units in Three Years A 2016 ‘impact fee’ on market-rate housing was supposed to produce $65 million for 160 new affordable units, but so far has not produced one new affordable unit.
SF News One Puppy Found, One Still Missing After Stolen Van Incident in the East Bay Of the 28 puppies and full-grown dogs that went missing in a pet transport van that was stolen on Sunday night, 27 have now been recovered. But one cute brown bulldog puppy remains missing, having apparently been sold in Oakland by a suspect who is now in custody.
SF News Oakland Councilwoman Suggests Housing 1,000 Homeless on Cruise Ship Oakland city councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan wants to employ a novel method of quickly creating emergency housing that has previously been used after natural disasters: cruise ships docked at the Port of Oakland.
SF News Stolen Van Full of 30 Dogs Recovered In Oakland, 3 Dogs Missing A cargo van full of dogs who were being transported cross-country was stolen out of a hotel parking lot in Fremont Sunday, and while the van has been found with most of the dogs still inside, owners of the dogs are naturally freaking out.
SF News Stray Bullet From Shootout Following Robbery On Oakland's Grand Avenue Injures Resident A gunpoint robbery Monday morning at a coin collectors' store on Oakland's Grand Avenue led to a shootout between the thieves and the store owner, and in the exchange of gunfire a stray bullet entered a nearby residence and injured a person inside.
SF News Massive Junk Lot and Encampment In West Oakland Gets Cleaned Out, Evicting 100 Homeless A major project began Tuesday morning to transform a four-acre parcel of private land in West Oakland from a homeless encampment and automotive dumping ground into a city-sanctioned RV- and vehicle-parking area for the homeless.
