FedEx Express opened a cargo base in Oakland in 1988, which is now one of the busiest air freight terminals in the United States.

It is next to both the Port of Oakland — the fourth busiest container port in the United States — and downtown Oakland.

Walnut Creek station is on the Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO / Millbrae line, the busiest line of the BART system, with trains heading southwest to Oakland, downtown San Francisco, and San Francisco International Airport ( SFO ) and northeast to Concord.

The busiest outside of San Francisco, 12th St. Oakland City Center, handles 12, 181 weekday exits.

Tremont Street is the largest, busiest, and most extensive road in Oakland.

The Bay also continues to serve as a major international shipping port, served by a large container facility operated by the Port of Oakland, and two smaller facilities in Richmond and San Francisco.

In the 1990s, the IWW was involved in many labor struggles and free speech fights, including Redwood Summer, and the picketing of the Neptune Jade in the port of Oakland in late 1997.

As a schoolboy, London often studied at Heinold's First and Last Chance, a port side bar in Oakland.

As a result the Port of San Francisco virtually ceased to function as a major commercial port, but the neighboring port of Oakland emerged as the second largest on the West Coast of America.

Sited at both a major rail terminus and an important sea port, Oakland was a natural location for food processing plants, whose preserved products fed domestic, foreign, and military consumers.

In 2003 the Oakland, CA Police Dept infiltrated a group of peaceful anti-war protestors at the port.

The mast head logo, which became an icon of the paper, showed Oakland, a port to the world and nation.

A lengthy bitter battle over the Port of Oakland, which Pardee argued on behalf of Oakland that the port was a municipal rather than private corporation, dragged out for much of his governorship.

The rise of the Port of Oakland and its dominance over San Francisco as a freight port is an example of the exploitation of a disruptive technology by a competitor with a relatively insignificant investment in the older form of the technology.

The Port of Oakland is the first major port on the Pacific Coast of the United States to build terminals for container ships.

22 years later, in 1874, the previously dredged shipping channel was deepened to make Oakland a deep water port.

However, the port was not officially named the Port of Oakland until 1927, under the leadership of the newly-organized Board of Port Commissioners.

By the late 1960s, the Port of Oakland was the second largest port in the world in container tonnage.

The BART trunk line also crosses over part of the port, and the east portal of the Transbay Tube that carries BART trains from Oakland to San Francisco lies within the Port.

In 1987, on behalf of the Oakland port Commission, Allen Broussard led a group of 72 lawyers and city officials on a 3-week long trip to China meeting the Mayor of Shanghai, Jiang Zemin ( Shanghai is twinned with San Francisco )

Occupy Oakland, part of the Occupy movement, marched to the port on November 2, 2011, and blocked traffic from entering and leaving.

Today the Port of Oakland is the Bay Area's largest port and the fifth largest container shipping port in the United States.

At one time busy with port and ferry related traffic, it fell into decline as freight transferred to the container terminals of Oakland and the Bay Bridge replaced the ferries.

The runways and remainder of the Alameda Naval Air Station can be seen at the end of Alameda Island in this aerial view of the port of Oakland, California.

* October 17 – The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7. 1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco – Oakland region of Northern California, killing 67 people and delaying the 1989 World Series for ten days

The main population centers of Northern California include San Francisco Bay Area ( which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and the largest city of the region, San Jose ), and Sacramento ( the state capital ) as well as its metropolitan area.

Northern California's largest metropolitan area is the San Francisco Bay Area which includes the cities of San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and their many suburbs.

Paul was a Middleweight who was a main event attraction in Northern California during the mid-1940s, primarily in Oakland.

New Jersey accountant George and Oakland housewife Doris meet at a Northern California inn in February 1951.

Oakland International is the first Northern California airport to offer EV charging services as part of the ChargePoint Network, providing drivers EV services including real-time charging station status and reservations.

* Temescal Creek ( Northern California ), in Oakland

The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland to own.

She also designed YWCAs in Northern California, including those in San Francisco's Chinatown and Oakland.

By 1990, Kaiser Permanente provided coverage for about a third of the population of the cities of San Francisco and Oakland ; total Northern California membership was over 2. 4 million.

Oakland police spokesperson Jeff Thomason confirmed at Williams ’ July 20 arraignment that evidence indicated Williams planned to target the San Francisco offices of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and Tides Foundation, for violence.

Centrally located at First and Mission Streets near the Financial District and South Beach, the terminal originally served as the San Francisco terminus for the electric commuter trains of the East Bay Electric Lines, the Key System of streetcars and the Sacramento Northern railroads which ran on the lower deck of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.

Most of the Yao who have immigrated to the United States have settled along the Western part of the U. S., mainly in Northern California such as Visalia, Fresno, Oakland, Oroville, Redding, Richmond, Sacramento, but also in parts of Oregon like Portland, Salem, and Beaverton, as well as the state of Washington in Seattle and Renton.

* See also the Sacramento Northern Railroad, an interurban system running from Chico through Sacramento to Oakland which also used some of the Key System's trackage as well as the Key System's ferry pier, and later ran to the Transbay Terminal until 1941.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California has offices in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.

In Northern California, Stockton, Modesto, and Oakland have significant Cambodian populations, while Santa Rosa and Sacramento have sizable communities as well.

The Transbay Terminal was built as the San Francisco terminus for the electric commuter trains of the Southern Pacific, the Key System and the Sacramento Northern railroads, which ran on the south side of the lower deck of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.

The Ports play in the Northern Division of the Class A – Advanced California League and are a Minor League affiliate of the Oakland Athletics.

East Oakland, together with West Oakland and portions of North Oakland, are the heart and soul of Northern California's African American community.

Too Short was also one of the first rap artists to promote and sell records independently, started first by Mac Dre, who was born in Oakland and moved to Vallejo, and is one of the pioneers responsible for the birth of Northern California's independent hip hop scene, leading other artists to pursue success in the music industry without the assistance of a major record company.

On March 14, 1987, the YVHS Boys Basketball team, coached by Jim Grace, won the ( Division 1 ) Northern California Championship at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.

The Northern California Eichler Homes are predominantly in San Francisco, Marin County, Sacramento, the East Bay towns of Walnut Creek, Concord, Oakland, Castro Valley, and the San Francisco Peninsula towns of San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and San Jose.