Authorities with the California Highway Patrol on Friday announced the arrest of an Oakland man suspected of fatally shooting his own wife almost two years ago.

A baby monkey was likely abducted from her mother by exotic animal poachers before she became someone’s pet in California, Oakland Zoo officials told KRON4. The adorable

An endangered spider monkey is under Oakland Zoo's care after she was discovered in a Rolls-Royce during a traffic stop, authorities say. Driving the news: The spider monkey, rescued on New Year's Eve,

Two people were killed in separate acts of violence in Oakland on New Year's Eve night. The first incident happened just after 7:45 p.m. on the 1900 block of 70th Avenue, not far from the intersection of International Boulevard and 73rd Avenue.

Wednesday evening in different parts of East Oakland left one man dead in the city’s second homicide of the year, and another man wounded.