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A's President Dave Kaval confirmed that team officials will visit Southern Nevada next week on a "fact-finding trip" to begin exploring the Las Vegas area as a possibility for relocation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alameda County's coronavirus case count increased by more than 1,350 this week, raising concern over a possible surge amid California's falling COVID-19 numbers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kamala Harris will return to Oakland on Monday for the first time as vice president, her office says. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland officials will spotlight the four finalists vying to be the city's next police chief in a forum Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A coronavirus testing blitz in Oakland's Fruitvale district revealed high antibody positivity rates among the neighborhood's Latino and Indigenous residents, indicating many were likely infected with the coronavirus in the past. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Joe Morgan, who rose from the baseball-rich playgrounds of Oakland to the Hall of Fame, died Sunday night at his home in Danville at the age of 77. The cause of death was non-specified polyneuropathy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If there's one thing to be said about the Laney College Eagles in Oakland, it's that they are resilient. The final season of Netflix's critically acclaimed football documentary series "Last Chance U" chronicled the lives of players against a backdrop of a city experiencing a transformation due to the outrageous cost of living. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There were no marchers, no chanting, no raised fists on the quiet West Oakland street. Just the sound of a mother's voice on the verge of tears. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cleanup crews in Oakland swept up shattered glass, boarded up broken windows and removed graffiti at police headquarters and several other locations Sunday after a peaceful protest against racism and police misconduct ended in chaos and arrests Saturday night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Police said several people were arrested amid violence in downtown Oakland on Saturday night. The turmoil followed a protest that drew thousands of people in a show of solidarity against racial injustice and in support of protesters in Portland, Ore. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Warriors' former practice facility in Oakland will temporarily close after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus, the team announced. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Four people were injured in a freeway shooting on Interstate 580 in Oakland on Wednesday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A vandal defaced an Oakland home in a traditionally Black neighborhood, spray-painting "all lives matter" and other graffiti on the exterior of the house late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A proposed November ballot measure would cut Oakland's taxes for small businesses while raising them for larger companies, boosting city revenue by around $40 million annually. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three people died and two others were injured in a string of shootings that began Monday night in East Oakland, according to police logs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A group of Oakland Police officers took a knee with protesters late Sunday amid a third night of demonstrations in the city over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The city of Oakland is preparing for an organized protest Friday night over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody Tuesday after an officer knelt on his neck pinning him to the ground. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Several California communities suing the oil industry over climate change got welcome news Tuesday when a panel of federal judges said their cases could move forward in state court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two children died in a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 580 in Oakland on Thursday, the California Highway Patrol said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Before I fell in love with movies, I fell in love with movie theaters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The Trump administration, intensifying its showdown with sanctuary cities, plans to send Border Patrol agents into interior parts of the country to assist federal agents in routine immigration arrests and deportations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mahershala Ali is a two-time Academy Award-winner, and he spent Sunday fulfilling his duties as the reigning best supporting actor winner by handing out the best supporting actress Oscar to Laura Dern. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A handful of California cities and counties want billions of dollars from the oil industry for the problems arising from climate change, and their far-reaching legal push is about to face a crucial test in a Pasadena courtroom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland police are searching for three male suspects in a hit-and-run crash that left a woman dead early Sunday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 62-year-old man died Saturday in a small apartment fire in Oakland, authorities said Sunday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California Auditor Elaine Howle has released a fiscal health analysis of the state's 471 cities, and her list contains some unwelcome surprises. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For A's President Dave Kaval, the lawsuit just filed by the city of Oakland to block the team's partial purchase of the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum site was like getting beaned by a fastball, one thrown by his own pitcher. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland is losing two of its three professional sports teams. If we don't come together as a community and support the building of a new baseball stadium at Howard Terminal, we face the real risk of losing our last team, the Athletics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In response to your July 22 article, "Oakland homelessness surges 47% - per-capita number now higher than S.F. and Berkeley" we are troubled by the misleading assertion that current homelessness increases are "driven by drug addiction (and) mental illness" as well as "lack of housing." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland's homeless population rose 47% between 2017 and 2019, one of the biggest two-year increases of any California city, according to a one-night street count released Monday by county officials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A shooting on Interstate 880, south of 98th Avenue in Oakland, left two injured and resulted in all northbound lanes being shut down Monday evening, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nearly two years ago, Ghost Ship trial defendant Derick Almena sat for an emotional interview with a local television station, firing back at his critics and professing his innocence in the 2016 Oakland warehouse fire that killed 36 people. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

City workers seeking a new contract protested the Oakland City Council as it approved its two-year budget at a contentious meeting that stretched into the early hours Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the beginning, no one wanted to claim the BART pedestrian walkway. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Warriors will soon be gone and the Raiders will soon be history, but cheer up, sports fans - the Oakland Alameda Coliseum Authority is in talks to bring indoor football to Oracle Arena and hope to kick it off next year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, who met at Willard Middle School in Berkeley, have always talked about their East Bay upbringing in interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Brontez Purnell's writing is so wry and gut-baring that reading it makes you feel more reckless by proxy. As a fixture of the Oakland punk scene over the past two decades, Purnell is an artist whose talents refuse to be constrained to one field: He's a musician (Gravy Train!!!, The Younger Lovers). In 2010 he founded an experimental dance and theater crew, the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. And though he's a longtime zinemaker and writer, his work has finally begun garnering attention from the establishment in the past few years: Purnell's novel "Since I Laid My Burden Down" won a 2018 Whiting Award for fiction, and last year the New York Times named him one of 32 essential "black male writers of our time." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A bicyclist was hit and killed by a car on Highway 24 in Oakland on Wednesday, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The size of the two-story storefront at 410 13th St. in downtown Oakland is no measure of the creativity it contains. In just 750 square feet, you'll find a bookstore that also runs a publishing press and puts out a quarterly magazine; a queer skateboard collective that doubles as a zine press; and a radio station that sells street-wear merch in Japan and Taiwan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Beyond Trend continues to be one of the hottest nights on the Oakland art calendar, partly for moments like what happened Saturday night, April 27, when the fashion show featured an artist battling a Venus flytrap puppet that stood more than 7 feet tall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Over the course of almost a decade, Sheila Cassani and Matthew Yungert built a backyard farm in the middle of Oakland. They dug vegetable beds, built a chicken coop of reclaimed wood, installed a beehive and planted fruit trees. They shared vegetables from their lush garden with neighbors and dreamed of someday harvesting them alongside their newborn daughter. Their urban homestead was featured on a farm tour, in the media, even in a book. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If Jessica Schiller has her way, there will soon be floating bikes crossing the bay from morning to night, commuters escaping the perils of BART and the traffic snarls of the bridge by pedaling amid the whales and container ships. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two blocks north of Oakland's 19th Street BART Station are a shuttered burger stand, a public parking garage and short commercial buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After a one-year hiatus to secure a new location, the promoters of Treasure Island Music Festival announced this week, that the two-day outdoor concert will return to the bay on Oct. 13-14 at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Blurry Vision Fest set itself apart right from the start. The two-day music festival, which debuts Saturday-Sunday, May 12-13, at Oakland's Middle Harbor Shoreline, promises a highly Instagrammable new venue, sharply curated lineup and relatively affordable concert experience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oh, how I used to mock Berkeley! The flower beds at the street intersections, the roundabouts, the dead ends, the maze of bike lanes - the city's declaration of war on the automobile seemed laughably smug. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]