Dr. Adrian Walton told Global News that runoff from farm and dairy operations can get flushed into some of the local streams.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Lake Merritt is also known as the jewel of Oakland. A new campaign that launched Monday hopes to add some shine to the popular destination, which has also been the scene of ...

The controversial parking meters at Lake Merritt that replaced free time-limited parking and forced people to pay on weekends made $850,000 in its first year, a new report by the Oakland ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Interior Health says common symptoms from exposure to blue-green algae include diarrhea, fever, rashes, sore throat and vomiting.

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 ...