A well-known 77-year-old University of California, Berkeley sociology professor was killed in a hit-and-run collision while ...

Michael Burawoy, a British scholar known for his work bringing, as he put it, “visions from the shop floor to academia,” was ...

Rare salmon sightings have been reported at Oakland's Lake Merritt over the past few days, creating a lot of excitement. James Robinson of Oakland's Lake Merritt Institute is almost giddy about ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Residents are saying enough is enough after the discovery of antisemitic graffiti at Lake Merritt in Oakland. It comes a year after a massive menorah was destroyed there.

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.

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 ...

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 ...