Nearly a century after Piedmont's first Black resident was driven from his home through threats, violence, and what attorneys now call a fraudulent use of eminent domain, descendants of the family ...

The great-granddaughter of Sidney Dearing filed suit against the city of Piedmont, California, over racial discrimination, among other claims.

A grim discovery in East Oakland yesterday morning has turned into a full-scale homicide investigation after human remains, ...

He was robbed and killed by a group of assailants, and police arrested a murder suspect in St. Louis, MI last week.

The homelessness agency that warned the new encampment abatement policy could put $45 million at risk is now backing off that threat. That could open the door to a vote as soon as February.

The Oakland Museum of California has the following 2 special exhibitions on view for the price of one. 'Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain” navigates histories within black American communities in Oakland ...

After Oakland, Calif., reneged on a contract allowing coal shipments, a Kentucky company went under. Courts say the city may have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars. By Soumya Karlamangla ...

Coach John Beam was featured in Netflix's "Last Chance U." Legendary former football coach John Beam died on Friday morning after he was shot on the Laney College campus in Oakland, California, on ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The FBI and Oakland police are asking for the public's help identifying two suspects accused of stealing more than 1,000 items from an off-site storage facility belonging to the ...

The Oakland Museum of California is working with the FBI’s Art Crime Team after 1,000 artifacts were stolen from its off-site storage facility. Jewelry, Native American baskets, and daguerreotypes ...

NORTHEASTERN U.S. AND CANADA LATER TONIGHT. RIGHT. TAKING A LOOK BACK AT ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES IN STATE HISTORY THIS MONTH, IN 1991, THE OAKLAND HILLS FIRE DESTROYED THOUSANDS OF HOMES ...

“The theft that occurred represents a brazen act that robs the public of our state’s cultural heritage,” said the museum's CEO Lori Fogarty Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...