SF News Day Around the Bay: West Oakland's Only Grocery Store In Danger of Closing West Oakland's only grocery store says it may not be able to stay open without financial help, the SFPD has released an updated sketch of a toddler who went missing when her mother was killed in 2016, and Uber and Lyft are both spending big on incentives to bring drivers back.
SF News [Update] Moms 4 Housing Offered Relocation Help But They've Refused To make the transition easier, the real estate investment firm that owns the home has said it is willing to pay for the move and for the women's shelter for the next two months. The women call the offer "an insult."
SF News Judge Orders West Oakland Moms Squatting In Vacant Home To Be Evicted The saga of Moms 4 Housing appears to be coming to a close as a judge on Friday ordered that the women who have been occupying a vacant property in West Oakland must leave or be removed by the Sheriff. The decision is very likely to draw more protest.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Asked To Leave Squatted Residence By Owner To Make Way For Youth Center In a revolving carousel of quandaries, the owner of a vacant West Oakland home that was squatted by two mothers last month wants them out — so they can use the property to accommodate disadvantaged youth.
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.
SF News Massive New West Oakland Development With 32-Story Tower Moves Forward A huge new residential development encompassing an entire city block in West Oakland — with over 1,000 units and 35,000 square feet of retail — was unanimously approved by Oakland's Planning Commission on Thursday, with plenty of community support.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Artist Had Elephant Sculptures and Truck Stolen In West Oakland Well known local artist and Burner Jack Champion says he's devastated to have lost a pair of elephant installations he's been working on for the past 10 months, which he intended to bring to Burning Man on Sunday.
SF News 16-Year-Old Arrested In Shooting Death Of Teen Girl At West Oakland BART A 16-year-old suspect has been apprehended in a fatal shooting that occurred Thursday night outside the West Oakland BART station.
Arts & Entertainment Vinyl Pressing Plant To Open In Oakland For First Time Nearly A Century Second Line Vinyl is looking to bring a record pressing plant to West Oakland by early next year. As KQED reports, this would be the first plant producing vinyl records in the city
SF News West Oakland Man Charged With Trying To Join ISIS A federal grand jury indicted a West Oakland man Thursday on terrorism charges for allegedly creating social media accounts and planning an attack in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and
SF News West Oakland Landlord Hires PR Guy Sam Singer, Says He Is 'Heartbroken' Over Fire Deaths San Pablo Avenue open to traffic at the site of deadly apartment fire in Oakland @kron4news pic.twitter.com/168dgEKdbn— Haaziq Madyun (@KRON4HMadyun) March 29, 2017 Renowned local PR fixer Sam Singer has
SF News Emails Show Oakland Fire Officials Considered West Oakland Building A Known Fire Hazard With Oakland's second deadly fire in four months, new evidence shows that a fire captain called to have the building at 2551 San Pablo Avenue shut down for safety reasons as of January
SF News West Oakland Building That Burned Monday Was A Halfway House With A Troubled History A fourth victim has been confirmed in the deadly fire that burned down a three-story building on San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland on Monday, and as the investigation into the fire gets
SF News Arson Suspected In Deadly West Oakland Fire Where Landlord Was Trying To Evict Low-Income Tenants The four-alarm fire that broke out early Monday morning in a West Oakland building, killing at least three people and displacing over 80, may not have been accidental as a lawyer for a
SF News Two Oakland Teens Charged In Beating Death Of 55-Year-Old Man In Park Two Oakland teenagers have been charged with murder in connection with the beating and stomping of 55-year-old Piliip Fai Low, who may have been sleeping in a West Oakland park and who was
SF News Will $10,000 Bounty Help Police Find The West Oakland BART Train Shooter? Nearly a month after a man was shot and killed while riding BART, it appears the police are no nearer to finding his killer. Will a cash reward help develop a lead to
SF News Shooting Aboard BART In West Oakland Was Not Random, Suspect Still At Large According to witnesses aboard a BART train headed to San Francisco on Saturday night just before 8 p.m., right before the doors would open at the West Oakland Station, a "disheveled looking
SF News Oakland Gospel Choir Threatened With Nuisance Fee, Daily Fines For Singing Too Loud “The music of the church reveals the life of the church, the enthusiasm of the church,” Michael Wright, an Oakland pastor, tells CBS SF. But that's not how it's seen, or heard, by
SF News Evicted Social Club Snaps Up Gingerbread House Property In Oakland A nonprofit sexy social club evicted from their Mission District space two years ago is doing the quintessential San Francisco thing — moving to Oakland. They've successfully rounded up a team of investors to
SF News BART Police To Seek Attempted Murder Charges For Man Who Allegedly Shot Himself On West Oakland Platform Just witnessed a shooting at West Oakland Bart station. 2 police men. 1 black man. pic.twitter.com/GijZ40ARq3— Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja) September 2, 2015 BART police announced Wednesday that they plan on
SF News Man Claims BART Police Shot Him At West Oakland Station Tuesday Night, But Cops Say He Shot Himself He was also tazed. I heard a pop then saw man on ground with 2 cops on him. Man yelled "they shot me.. They shot me" pic.twitter.com/TqLaDMeW4M— Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja)
Arts & Entertainment Oaklanders Break Longest Soul Train Record With 337 Dancers KTVU - Over the weekend and I'm shocked that I somehow didn't hear about this earlier a group of 337 Oaklanders broke the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous soul train. This
SF News 25-Year-Old Injured In West Oakland Collision Awakens From Coma Maggie Lowrie kisses her son Greg Lowrie as he recovers at Highland http://t.co/0QfRF1PsY6 #oakland @daviddebolt pic.twitter.com/BRedthLFni— Jose Carlos Fajardo (@jcfphotog) March 21, 2015 Greg Lowrie, the 25-year-old
SF News If You Get In A Vehicle Accident In West Oakland You Will Get Robbed Proving that West Oakland is in fact still a rough place in which you don't want to take any unnecessary pauses, a cyclist was struck by a pickup truck there on Tuesday, and
SF News West Oakland Market Sends Posse Of Goons To Rough Up Thief Who Stole Liquor A tipster sent in this video of a group of men, identified as owners or employees of Ideal Market at 21st and Market Streets in West Oakland, chasing down and roughing up a