Goodbye tents, hello tepee. Occupy Oakland activists plan to stage a "24-hour, 7-day-a-week vigil" on Frank Ogawa Plaza downtown starting Tuesday at noon, according to a posting on the group's web site.  While there was no mention of tents, protesters will erect a teepee to "remind the public of the former Occupy camp" as well as the "historic struggles of the Sioux Indians on the Plains of the U.S." and "homeless ......

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan acknowledged that the city did not have "enough police in the afternoon" during Wednesday's Occupy Oakland protest, when vandals smashed windows at some downtown banks and a Whole Foods Market.  At a press conference on Thursday, she said it was "so important that people stepped in" when some demonstrators became violent, but added that violence "shouldn't mar the overall impact of the demonstration and the fact ......

Updated Nov. 2, 2011 at 8:55 p.m. More than three thousand Occupy Oakland protesters shut down the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth busiest port, late Wednesday afternoon. The protesters stopped traffic into and out of the port. About 200 workers arriving at the port for their 7 p.m. shift were told to go home, according to Craig Merrilees, communications director for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. "They couldn't ......

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake shook the Bay Area on Thursday morning at 5:36 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quake was one mile east of Berkeley.   There has been notable seismic activity lately on the Hayward fault. Last Thursday, a 4.0 quake hit two miles east of Berkeley, followed by numerous aftershocks....

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed San Franciscans to raise the vehicle license fee on cars and trucks registered in the county to help fund local services.  "Before we embark on a piecemeal approach for one city, we should try to fashion a broader revenue solution to our state's fiscal crisis," Gov. Brown wrote in his veto message.  State Senator Mark Leno, who sponsored the ......