Oakland

Oakland city leaders entered a historic agreement Thursday that could revitalize the Coliseum complex and possibly bring a new sports team to the East Bay’s largest city.

The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled devices, addressing head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to confront suspects.

Servers dressed as Power Rangers morphed into real-life heroes after a woman was assaulted inside their Oakland restaurant.

Oakland police are pushing to add something new to their arsenal: robots with shotguns. Although police insist they would be used only when all other options had been exhausted, the plan is still causing an uproar.

Ballistics tests have linked the fatal shootings of six men and the wounding of one woman in California, all potentially at the hands of a serial killer.

Six people were injured in a school shooting Wednesday in Oakland, police said. A manhunt is underway to find the two suspected shooters and an accomplice.

Six people were injured in a school shooting Wednesday in Oakland’s Eastmont Hills, police said.

A 13-year-old was recovering in the hospital Monday after being shot by another juvenile at Madison Park Academy in East Oakland, according to police.

Five people inside the Oakland Coliseum were hit by bullet fragments from apparent celebratory gunfire taking place outside the stadium on the Fourth of July, the A’s and police said Tuesday.

A notorious defrocked Oakland priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of children was arrested Saturday night after allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in a Walnut Creek retirement community, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has confirmed.

The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.

Police are looking into missing person cases and hope DNA or dental records can help them solve this very strange mystery.

Amy Schneider racked up nearly $1.4 million on “Jeopardy!.” She will likely owe nearly half of those winnings to taxes.

She’s the fifth millionaire winner in the trivia game show’s history.

A 23-month-old boy died after being shot by a stray bullet on Interstate 880 in Oakland on Saturday, family members confirmed to NBC Bay Area.