OAKLAND, Calif. - Lake Merritt is also known as the jewel of Oakland. A new campaign that launched Monday hopes to add some shine to the popular destination, which has also been the scene of crimes, ...

Hundreds turned out for the first night of the Autumn Lights Festival at the Gardens at Lake Merritt on Thursday evening.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- At least four people were shot during a Juneteenth celebration in Oakland's Lake Merritt on Wednesday night, police said. Officials say at around 9 p.m., Oakland police and ...

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Police say a suitcase was found floating near the edge of the lake at around 11 a.m. with the body inside. A volunteer who cleans Lake Merritt says he and his friend found a suitcase and helped pull ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - In the East Bay, there was an unusual theft of priceless and cherished tiny trees. It happened at the Bonsai Garden near Lake Merritt in Oakland on Wednesday morning, around 4:15 a.m ...

OAKLAND — A 61-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday while driving near Lake Merritt and crashed his vehicle into a nearby motel parking lot, creating a public crime scene but no immediate clarity on ...

Indivisible East Bay, which helped organize the event, says more than 10,000 people marched peacefully from Wilma Chan Park, ...

A body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in Oakland's Lake Merritt Tuesday morning, police said. Volunteers with a cleanup crew found the suitcase in the water near the intersection of Lakeshore and ...

The Oakland Police Department has released the identity and photo of a man found stuffed into a suitcase in Lake Merritt on Halloween in hopes of solving the case. Gabriel Gomez Raymundo, 23, was ...