Oakland

Oakland's City Council has voted unanimously to ban landlords from performing criminal background checks on would-be renters.

The Oakland A's pitch for a waterfront ballpark became closer to reality after the city council voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve an agreement with the port that allows the release of the project's environmental review

Oakland Police are urging the driver who struck and killed a mother of seven n front of a middle school to turn themselves in.

Oakland Mayor, Libby Schaaf, announced on Monday that a deal has been reached to negotiate the sale of the vacant home on Magnolia Street, where several homeless mothers had been living without the permission of the Southern California firm that owns it.

OAKLAND (KCBS Radio) -- Alameda County Sheriff's deputies, some in riot gear, broke down the door of a home in West Oakland before dawn Tuesday morning, ending the occupation by a group of squatters calling themselves "Moms 4 Housing". Two of the women were arrested, along with a man who was inside...

E-scooters specifically designed for people with disabilities are now available in Oakland.

The organizers of Oakland's LGBTQ pride parade face an uncertain future as they've lost their headquarters due to increasing real-estate costs.

Census numbers bear out claim by Moms 4 Housing that thousands of homes in the Bay Area are vacant.

The family of Jonathan Bandabaila, an Oakland man who disappeared in May, is now offering $10,000 for information that helps find him.

Two alleged laptop thieves were charged with killing a Starbucks customer in Oakland who died trying to stop them from stealing his computer.