Oakland

An Oakland police officer was arrested by the department on suspicion of stalking and threatening a city employee formerly involved in a relationship with the officer, authorities said Monday.

The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center was vandalized in what members believe was a targeted attack.

Dozens of healthcare workers staged a demonstration Friday in Oakland after a white nurse was accused of making racist comments against the Black Lives Matter movement.

An Oakland Laney College faculty member who was placed on leave after the school launched an investigation into allegations that he sent xenophobic messages to a Vietnamese student has apologized, the instructor told NBC Bay Area.

Longshoremen at various California ports stopped work Friday to mark Juneteenth.

A faculty member at Laney College in Oakland has been placed on leave, and the school has launched an investigation after the instructor allegedly sent racist and xenophobic messages to a student about the pronunciation of their name.

Hundreds are expected Friday to attend a memorial service honoring slain Federal Protective Service Officer David Patrick Underwood, scheduled for 11 a.m. at Pinole Valley High School in Pinole.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said ropes found hanging from trees Tuesday at Lake Merritt were nooses that will be investigated as a hate crime, but others argue the ropes were used as exercise equipment.

The family of Oscar Grant wants BART director to step down, saying the she tried to defend a police officer for killing Grant in 2009.

An Air Force sergeant already jailed in the ambush killing of a California sheriff’s deputy was charged Tuesday with murdering a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in Oakland during a night of a sometimes violent protest last month.

As the country continues its debate on defunding police departments, Oakland police are revealing more details about what led to the shooting death of a 23-year-old man.

Demonstrators gathered in Oakland Monday demanding justice for Erik Salgado, a 23-year-old man who was shot and killed by CHP officers over the weekend, one block away from his middle school and one block away from where his mother lives.

Oakland’s 15th Street now features a mural that spells out “#BLACK LIVES MATTER” with yellow paint between Harrison Street and Broadway.

Mayor Libby Schaaf took a knee Friday and asked hundreds to join her in honoring the memory of George Floyd and other victims of police brutality.

Downtown Oakland may have felt like the Wild West the last couple of days, but there’s an image that has resonated with many — a mural of a woman and her horse.

Multiple lasers were pointed at NBC Bay Area’s helicopter SkyRanger Wednesday night as it flew above a demonstration in Oakland. Pointing a laser at a helicopter is a federal offense as it can temporarily blind the pilot and cause a chopper to crash.

Police in Oakland have taken a suspect into custody Wednesday after a standoff at a home with two young children inside, authorities said.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is encouraging everyone in her city, and all of Alameda County, to stay home Monday and abide by the 8 p.m. curfew as protesters kick off another day of peaceful demonstrations.

Multiple buildings were damaged and several arrests in San Jose and Oakland were made Friday night after protests against the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

One security officer with the Federal Protective Service was killed, and another injured after shots rang out amid protests in Oakland amid protests over the death of George Floyd on Friday, authorities said.