An Air Force sergeant suspected of ties to a far-right extremist movement pleaded not guilty Thursday to the first-degree murder and attempted murder of two Federal Protective Services officers as they guarded the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland on May 29.
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A Juneteenth rally against police brutality and racism organized by a dockworkers union in Oakland, California, Friday morphed into a contentious debate about inclusivity after queer and transgender protesters accused organizers of excluding marginalized voices.
Read moreTwo men have been charged in the murder of federal officer David Patrick Underwood, who was shot and killed while guarding the federal courthouse in Oakland as protesters took to nearby streets to demonstrate against racial injustice and police brutality.
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Hundreds of protesters marched through East Oakland Monday calling for racial justice and demanding answers about the fatal police shooting of a 23-year-old man in their neighborhood two days earlier.
Read moreProtest organizers in Oakland, California on Thursday vowed to keep marching in the streets and occupying a plaza outside the city’s main government building until their demands for police reform are met.
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A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday upheld a federal judge’s ruling striking down the city of Oakland’s ban on coal shipments from a new terminal being built from an old army base at the foot of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
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The Oakland City Council called Tuesday for further review of a proposal that would dramatically enhance the powers of a civilian commission overseeing the city’s police force.
Read moreFormer Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick submitted a claim for damages from Oakland, California, claiming it fired her illegally because she “repeatedly blew the whistle on corrupt actions by the Police Commission, shining a light on their illegal actions, inappropriate influence, abuse of powers, and harassment of city staff.”
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Among other deficiencies in the city of Oakland’s suit, the judge found a $378 million relocation fee the Raiders paid could act as an obstacle to moving that favors existing host cities.
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A federal judge seems to be on the edge of dismissing the city of Oakland’s antitrust lawsuit against the Las Vegas Raiders and the National Football League for a second time, saying at a hearing Friday that the city hasn’t shown how the league’s structure is anticompetitive.
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Low-income renters whose disabilities may have excluded them from participating in Oakland’s rent control program got the green light from a federal judge on their lawsuit against the city.
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Trade associations representing the trucking and shipping industry are challenging a legislative effort to fast-track the environmental review process for a new Oakland A’s ballpark near the Port of Oakland.
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The city of Oakland should not be allowed to sue Wells Fargo under the Fair Housing Act over lost property tax revenue from the foreclosures it attributes to the bank’s discriminatory mortgage lending practices, an attorney for the bank told the Ninth Circuit on Monday.
Read moreA new jury will decide whether Derick Almena is criminally liable for the deaths of 36 people in a fire at the Ghost Ship artist collective, after the judge in the case set a new trial date Friday.
Read moreThe City of Oakland sued Alameda County in superior court over the sale of the dually owned Oakland Coliseum, once home to the A’s and Raiders; the county wants to sell it, but the city says the sale should abide by the California Surplus Land Act, which requires a valid effort to sell public land for use as affordable housing, parks or recreation, or open space.
Read moreA California jury couldn’t agree on whether Derick Almena, founder of the Ghost Ship warehouse artist collective, should be found criminally negligent for a fire that caused the deaths of 36 people on Dec. 2, 2016 – but cleared his right-hand man of the same charges Thursday.
Read moreA federal class action claims Oakland, Calif., is excluding people with disabilities from its Rent Adjustment Program because so few rental properties have disable-accessible accommodations.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Oakland’s requirement that large developments include publicly accessible art.
Read moreA small army of city workers and dump trucks descended on a shoreline park in Oakland on Tuesday to remove dozens of homeless people from a makeshift camp after a federal judge granted the city’s request to carry out the contested eviction.
Read moreA California judge on Monday dismissed three female jurors at the start of the third full week of deliberations over the fate of two men on trial over the deaths of 36 people in a fire at the Ghost Ship artist collective.
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