The businesses that got shot up include a smoke shop, a cafe whose owner refused to pay $700 per week for protection, and a ...

OAKLAND — Oakland leaders say about 100 city workers will be laid off or demoted this week and next as the full consequences ...

Individual layoff notices went out Thursday to workers who fill 77 full-time city positions, hitting hardest the public works and Oakland police departments, which respectively will lose 26 and 19 ...

Nonprofit leaders were stunned when Oakland’s city administrator notified more than a dozen community organizations, ...

The City of Oakland sent out dozens of layoff notices last week in an attempt to balance its budget. The Oaklandside reports ...

Not long after Bay Area news outlets reported that Ayesha Curry was closing her Sweet July store in Oakland, "in order to prioritize the safety" of customers and workers, the story went national in ...

A woman was wounded after an assault and a gunman who later kept police at bay died by suicide in an incident in Farmington ...

Raka Ray, the dean of social sciences at Berkeley, said in a statement to HuffPost that she was “reeling” from the news about ...

The Columbia City Council approved two sidewalk projects along Vandiver Drive and Oakland Gravel Road. A $1.5 million sewer ...

Nearly 100 city workers will either be bumped or laid off as the City of Oakland works to close a multimillion-dollar deficit in its budget.