OAKLAND, California (WJW) – A young spider monkey named Violeta is enjoying her new home at the Oakland Zoo after being rescued alongside rattlesnakes during a drug bust last month.

Violeta the adorable spider monkey has come out of quarantine at the Oakland Zoo, where she’s being cared for after she was rescued from a drug bust in May. On Friday, June 6, the Oakland Zoo ...

The longtime chief of the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens announced her retirement Tuesday night, just days after Mayor Daniel ...

Fern and Thistle, two orphaned mountain lion cubs, will call the Phoenix Zoo their “fur-ever” home. The two cubs will be transferred from the Oakland Zoo to Phoenix in the coming weeks and get ...

Viral TikTok shows woman's panic in Japan after she handled the shell of one of the world's deadliest snails. Cone snails use ...

Prior to the announcement that the zoo would not move to Elk Grove, the Sacramento Zoological Society had transferred approximately $1.9 million in new zoo donations to the city of Elk Grove.

Oakland becomes the second city in the state to implement automated speed cameras, after San Francisco, following the passage of Assembly Bill 645 in the state legislature.

OAKLAND — The country was still six decades away from recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday when Barbara Lee first moved from El Paso, Texas, to Southern California, where she had to ...

Bottlenose dolphin born at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, the zoo's first dolphin birth since 2014 “Every birth is a remarkable learning opportunity, and the scientific information we gain benefits ...

Jasmin Canfield, of Oakland, gesture as she displays her t-shirt during the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Festival 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025.

Oakland's real estate market faces challenges, but die-hard developers are betting on the revival of the prominising East Bay city.