SF News Two Men Face Charges for Oakland Murder of Man Whose Body Was Found Wrapped in Plastic Garbage Bag Seven weeks ago, Oakland Police found a dead body abandoned and wrapped in a garbage bag in West Oakland. Now they’re naming two suspects, one of whom has been arrested, and the other is still at large.
SF News Police Find Dead Body Wrapped in Plastic Bag in West Oakland A gruesome discovery in West Oakland Thursday morning, as police discovered a dead body that was reportedly wrapped up in a plastic garbage bag, in a case that seems like it’s being investigated as a homicide.
SF News Man Shot and Killed at McClymonds High School Reunion in West Oakland Park A 38-year-old man was shot and killed at a McClymonds High School alumni gathering early Saturday evening at West Oakland’s De Fremery Park, and the victim was just two days away from his 39th birthday.
SF News Fire Destroys Warehouse In West Oakland Next to Wood Street Encampment A three-alarm fire broke out Wednesday night at a roofing supply warehouse in West Oakland, and the fire appeared to have started outside the building, possibly in a debris pile.
Bay Area Sports Brand New Baseball Team the Oakland Ballers Play Their Debut Home Opener Tonight Play ball, Ballers! Oakland’s new minor-league baseball team is causing some major excitement in West Oakland, as the Oakland Ballers prepare for their Tuesday night home opener at Raimondi Field.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink West Oakland Getting an Impressive New Food Hall, to Be Anchored by Almanac Beer Company The folks behind the West Oakland Farmers’ Market are leveling up with a new 12,000-square-foot brick-and-mortar food hall, and it will boast a new Almanac Beer Co. taproom.
SF News Homicide Suspect From Sacramento Shot and Killed By Oakland Police Oakland police fatally shot a man Wednesday night outside a home in West Oakland while assisting Sacramento police, who were attempting to arrest the man in connection with a homicide.
Bay Area Sports The Newly Formed Oakland Ballers Will Renovate and Play Ball at West Oakland’s Raimondi Field Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team called the Oakland Ballers (or “The B’s”). They just announced they’ll be playing at Raimondi Field in West Oakland, and spiffing the place up with a $1.6 million renovation.
SF News Oakland Recorded Three Homicides In a 24-Hour Period on Saturday and Sunday Three people were shot and killed in separate incidents Saturday night and Sunday morning in Oakland, and Oakland has now seen four homicides in just the first week of 2024.
SF News BART Unveils Their Supposedly ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates at West Oakland Station BART’s four-year, $90 million quest for an “evasion-proof” fare gate is now a working reality, at one station at least, as the West Oakland station is now the first out of the gate with the new gates that will soon be installed systemwide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue Chef Speaks Out, Launches GoFundMe After Fire Destroys the Restaurant Despite its building being decimated by a fire and red-tagged, the hit West Oakland restaurant Horn Barbecue was still handing out free turkeys to those in need Wednesday afternoon. Chef Tyler Florence was on hand helping, while a GoFundMe campaign seeks to rebuild the place.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland’s Horn Barbecue Severely Damaged by Early Tuesday Morning Fire Less than two days after the celebrated Horn Barbecue was thoroughly tagged with graffiti, the building is now effectively ruined for the time being after an early Tuesday morning fire has left the West Oakland building red-tagged.
SF News Three Months After Wood Street Encampment Cleared, Few Have Found Permanent Housing After the controversial clearing of the enormous Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. The New York Times takes a look at what happened to the hundreds of people who were swept out.
SF News Final Section of Wood Street Encampment Cleared In West Oakland, Ending Five-Year Saga Following many months of court battles and years in which the encampment grew to house hundreds of people in makeshift shelters and RVs, the sprawling encampment around Wood Street in West Oakland has been entirely removed.
SF News Oakland Police Release Photo of Car Seen Leaving Scene of Triple Homicide The Oakland Police Department is seeking help from the public in finding a suspect vehicle in last weekend's triple-homicide in West Oakland.
SF News West Oakland Shooting and Traffic Collision Incident Leaves Three Dead According to the Oakland Police Department (OPD), three people were killed after a car crash, which involved multiple vehicles, and a shooting occurred on the 2800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way Friday night.
SF News Federal Judge Hands Another Reprieve to Oakland’s Wood Street Encampment Residents A three-day restraining order on the clearing of the West Oakland encampment has been extended for a month, as a judge rules that Caltrans must provide residents with relocation plans by August 26 before they can clear any more of the site.
SF News Federal Judge Halts Clearing of Oakland’s Wood Street Encampment, Though It Might Resume Friday It’s probably no comfort to the couple dozen people whose camps have already been removed, but a federal judge has halted Caltrans’ clearing of the Wood Street encampment, though that decision could be reversed as early as Friday.
SF News [Update] Oakland and Caltrans Begin Clearing Wood Street Encampment, or As Residents Would Say, Destroying Their Homes A persistent and often problematic encampment community in West Oakland is starting to be aggressively cleared this week, but the operation seems heavier on law enforcement and bulldozing than transitional housing services.
SF News Umpteenth Fire At Oakland's Wood Street Encampment Shuts Down Part of MacArthur Maze Another fire — at least the fourth in the last several months — has broken out at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland, involving multiple RVs.
SF News Person Shot at Oakland's Wood Street Encampment, Dies A man was fatally shot Tuesday at the sprawling, multi-block Wood Street homeless encampment in West Oakland — and it's the second shooting to occur there in two months.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Body of Woman Missing Since 2004 Found In West Oakland The remains of Cynthia "Linda" Alonzo were accidentally uncovered by a construction crew in West Oakland, the SFMTA has announced the return of three bus lines gone since the pandemic began, and the Buchanan Street Mall in the Western Addition is getting renovated.
SF News Beleaguered Oakland Encampment Getting $4.7 Million Grant From State to Try ‘New Model’ West Oakland’s Wood Street encampment, which has suffered dozens of fires in the last year, will try a new community cabins model with a $4.7 million grant from the state.
SF News Another West Oakland Encampment Fire Kills Two Dogs, Destroys Three RVs A Thursday afternoon encampment fire claimed the lives of two dogs and displaced five people, less than a half-mile from the site of a separate encampment fire just ten days ago.
SF News Large Early Morning Encampment Fire Hits West Oakland, Several Propane Tanks Ignite There were fortunately no injuries and everyone made it out safely, but a number of propane tanks exploded in an Oakland encampment fire early this morning, and I-880 had to be shut down between 4 and 5 a.m. as the fire grew quite large.
