Dhanyale Dunbar, center, helps to lead a Lake Merritt Fit Camp session on the shore of the lake in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, September 10, 2014.

A look at one city's approach to encampment management, one year after the Supreme Court's Grants Pass ruling.

This UC California Naturalist course offered through Rotary Nature Center Friends explores the natural history of Lake Merritt, a modern urban estuary - its history and ecology, its human interactions ...

Susan Campodonico of Oakland looks on as Paris Organist of Oakland hands a bag full of trash to Otis Norton-Tsang of Berkeley after cleaning up the shoreline along Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif ...

On Sunday morning at 8 a.m., Oakland resident and molecular biologist Damon Tighe said he found all types of fish washed up on the three-mile shoreline of Lake Merritt.

“There’s someone fishing in Lake Merritt.” I broke my stride and pumped the brakes on the baby stroller I was pushing. There’s someone fishing in Lake Merritt — I said it aloud, but the only person ...

At least one dog has died after swimming in Nicola Lake near Merritt -- and the owner says blue-green algae is to blame. As Travis Lowe reports, dozens gathered at the lake on Monday morning to demand ...

Crime at Oakland's Lake Merritt has neighbors feeling helpless 02:50. OAKLAND – Many people living near Oakland's Lake Merritt feel helpless with the recent shootings and sideshow activity.

One person was killed and at least six others were wounded in a shooting Saturday evening at Lake Merritt in Oakland near the city’s Juneteenth celebration, the latest in a series of mass ...

I broke my stride and pumped the brakes on the baby stroller I was pushing. There’s someone fishing in Lake Merritt — I said it aloud, but the only person within earshot was my daughter, and she’s ...