NFL report: Oakland Raiders prefer Marshawn Lynch situation resolved before draft Oakland general manager Reggie McKenzie would like some resolution before the draft next week on whether running back Marshawn Lynch wants to come out of retirement and be traded to the Raiders.

Oakland Taxpayers Will Still Be On The Hook For $163 Million After The Raiders And Warriors Leave When the city of Oakland brought the Raiders back from Los Angeles in 1995, then-mayor Elihu Harris enticed Al Davis with $200 million in improvements to the Oakland Coliseum. The city paid for the construction with taxpayer-backed bonds, and their i Read more ... nitial plan was to pay off the bond by selling per...

The Soaring Cost of Living in Oakland Oakland, the low-key neighbor of San Francisco is undergoing a rapid transformation as real-estate prices rise.

Veteran fire chief chokes back tears as she talks about Oakland blaze Oakland Fire Chief Melinda Drayton struggled to maintain her composure as she addressed the press about the horrors she and her crew had faced inside the Oakland Ghost Ship.

The Jacksonville Jaguars, Everybody The Jags had pinned Oakland back for fourth-and-24, and the Raiders made things even harder on themselves by botching the punt’s long snap. The result of the play? First down, Oakland.

Blake Lively Will Not Apologize For Celebrating Her Body! Blake Lively, subject of the brilliant 2015 documentary The Age of Adaline, has finally shot back at critics of the controversial Instagram post from last month in which she described herself as having an “L.A. face with an Oakland booty.” Her ca Read more ... ption, taken from Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” imm...

Oakland loses its third police chief in nine days, will operate under civilian control Oakland PD is currently reeling from allegations that officers had inappropriate relationships with a teenage sex worker, possibly while she was underage.

36 Hours in Oakland, California Long overshadowed by its dolled-up big sister across the Bay, Oakland is its own town, and its cultural heterogeneity remains its greatest strength.

A's ace Sonny Gray scratched because of a sore back Oakland ace Sonny Gray , a Cy Young contender who leads the American League with a 2.06 earned-run average, was unable to start Thursday against the AL East -leading Blue Jays in Toronto because of a sore back.

Tree Project Aims to Put the Oak Back in Oakland A campaign to “re-oak” Oakland has begun, which started when volunteers planted an inaugural stand of 72 coast live oak saplings in plastic buckets in a West Oakland park.