Starting next Tuesday, city officials said, efforts to “replant trees and other plants” will lead them to clear tents around Lake Merritt’s 3.4-mile perimeter.

Police are investigating after someone was stabbed while sleeping inside a car a few blocks from Oakland's Lake Merritt over the weekend.

Seventy years ago, civic boosters like Frank Ogawa gifted hundreds of the cotton-candy flowered trees to Oakland. Today, just ...

The City of Oakland is ordering around 20 people living in encampments near Lake Merritt to move. In a few days, the city ...

The City of Oakland is gearing up to clear out all homeless encampments at Peralta Park and Lake Merritt next week.

Oakland has notified homeless individuals near Lake Merritt to leave for environmental cleanup and revegetation, despite ...

Oakland begins clearing encampments around Lake Merritt this week. Outreach teams are offering shelter services. The cleanup at Peralta Park coincides with a re-vegetation project aimed at ...

The city of Oakland is clearing encampments around Lake Merritt starting Wednesday April 1. It is giving people in tents at ...

Police are investigating after someone was stabbed while sleeping inside a car a few blocks from Oakland's Lake Merritt over the weekend. The assault was initially reported as a shooting ...

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