The distinct chill in the air during winter means one thing for Oakland birders: it’s time to head to Lake Merritt. The cold season brings with it a plethora of migratory birds that travel south ...

but its spirit continues in the many free mini-festivals held around the shores of Lake Merritt. And an annual favorite, Town Up Tuesday, has booked its biggest headliner yet for Tuesday, May 21: Too ...

Voters in Northern California will decide in the Nov. 5 election whether to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda ...

A third soon-to-open Tuff Shed camp will 'resolve' homelessness around the lake, but unsheltered residents are planning a protest. Nino Parker (right) said homeless residents around Lake Merritt ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Two Oakland police officers were credited over the weekend for saving a drowning man at a Lake Merritt canal, which was captured on body camera. On Sept. 28, Officer Jessica ...

Off Lake Merritt Boulevard, near the lake's most southwest corner, sits the open air Lake Merritt Amphitheater. The paved walking path that runs around Lake Merritt protrudes at this spot to ...

Prosecutors charged JaJuan Kelly, 23, with four counts of felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm for allegedly shooting four people on the evening of June 19 at Oakland's Lake Merritt.

Oakland and Berkeley teens are making history as the first 16- and 17-year-old California youth to vote in school board ...

One of the films, written and directed by Benjamin Mulholland, called The Lake Merritt Monster, is sort of like a horror, ...

When Ollie’s mother is attacked by a monster hiding in the depths of Lake Merritt, he sets out on a mission to find her—discovering instead a hidden network of monster-hunters tasked with ...

The action comes after communities including Oliver, Merritt, Williams Lake and Lillooet have faced repeated ER closures ...