Hundreds turned out for the first night of the Autumn Lights Festival at the Gardens at Lake Merritt on Thursday evening. The festival, which features more than 70 locally-produced illuminated art ...

Thousands of local residents flocked to the lights like moths as Oakland’s popular Autumn Lights Festival sold out again this weekend. The event is a benefit for the nonprofit Friends of the Gardens ...

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, Calif. - A menorah placed at Lake Merritt in Oakland was dismantled and thrown into the water early Wednesday morning. The Chabad Jewish Center of Oakland had arranged the menorah at the Lake ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...