Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers in Oakland were without power Thursday afternoon, officials said. The unplanned outage was first reported shortly after 4 p.m. and was affecting ...

Rare salmon sightings have been reported at Oakland's Lake Merritt over the past few days, creating a lot of excitement. James Robinson of Oakland's Lake Merritt Institute is almost giddy about ...

A well-known 77-year-old University of California, Berkeley sociology professor was killed in a hit-and-run collision while ...

A third soon-to-open Tuff Shed camp will 'resolve' homelessness around the lake, but unsheltered residents are planning a protest. Nino Parker (right) said homeless residents around Lake Merritt ...

Prosecutors charged JaJuan Kelly, 23, with four counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm for allegedly shooting four people on the evening of June 19 at Oakland's Lake Merritt.

Raka Ray, the dean of social sciences at Berkeley, said in a statement to HuffPost that she was “reeling” from the news about Burawoy, who mentored her when she arrived at the university as an ...

Off Lake Merritt Boulevard, near the lake's most southwest corner, sits the open air Lake Merritt Amphitheater. The paved walking path that runs around Lake Merritt protrudes at this spot to ...