Lake Merritt

Tens of thousands of fish washed ashore across the Bay Area and Lake Merritt was one of the hardest-hit areas. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Damon Tighe, a naturalist based in the East Bay, who has been documenting the fish kill, for some insight.

For several hours Wednesday, crews at Oakland’s Lake Merritt removed dead fish, believed to have died as a result of an algae bloom.

Crews on Wednesday started to remove dead fish from Lake Merritt in Oakland. The die-off could be connected to an algae bloom.

Crews were out Wednesday morning along the shores of Oakland’s Lake Merritt cleaning up dead fish that have died off in large numbers, a spokesperson for the city’s Public Works Department said.

Police are searching for the suspect of a shooting inside a BART train near the Lake Merritt station in Oakland Friday. Gia Vang reports.

Oakland Public Works received a complaint of brownish red water in Lake Merritt last week and are inspecting the water for a potential harmful algal bloom.

The city of Oakland will close areas surrounding Lake Merritt ahead of the Fourth of July holiday beginning Sunday.

The city of Oakland is shutting down some streets around Lake Merritt for the Fourth of July holiday. Most of Lakeshore Avenue will be closed through 10 p.m. Sunday and through 6 p.m. Monday.

Large crowds are expected at Oakland’s Juneteenth celebration in Lake Merritt. The city is closing Lakeshore Avenue between MacArthur Boulevard and East 18th Street. Lakeshore Avenue will also be closed at Beacon Street, Boden Way, Brooklyn, Wayne and Hanover avenues. Embarcadero will also remain closed.

Firefighters extinguished a fire that occurred under an overpass near Lake Merritt in Oakland Thursday evening.

Oakland firefighters battled a fire near Lake Merritt Thursday evening.

Fire destroyed three tiny homes in a new community near Lake Merritt in Oakland, displacing five people Monday morning, a fire spokesman said.

An Oakland resident was shot to death Friday night in the 1400 block of Lakeshore Avenue next to Lake Merritt in Oakland, police said.

Oakland police are investigating a Sunday afternoon homicide near Lake Merritt that happened when a man was shot confronting someone trying to burglarize his car.

Tennis courts near Lake Merritt that had been taken over by a homeless encampment were reopened for tennis players Saturday. Christie Smith reports.

Tennis courts near Lake Merritt that had been taken over by a homeless encampment will reopened for tennis players Saturday now that the people experiencing homelessness have been successfully moved into supportive housing and the courts renovated, city officials said.

Oakland police responded to two more shootings late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, one of which appears to be fatal, according to the police department.