Again. This is Banouvong's fourth time living under the roof of Lao Rattanaram Temple in Oakland, the only Laotian Buddhist temple in the Bay Area. As many young men do in Laos, Banouvong has ...

OAKLAND — Hours after celebrating an annual festival, Cambodian monks awoke early Tuesday morning to a fierce fire that gutted their beloved temple, possibly sparked by hundreds of candles used ...

The scrawled message covered about 10 feet of the lower portion of a wall on the Webster Street side of Temple Sinai. Like the Oakland Tribune Facebook page for more conversation and news coverage ...

The first time I ever saw the Oakland California Temple, I thought it was some sort of Disney princess castle. At night, its whimsical spires illuminate the sky in blinding white, a glowing beacon ...

Chief Ian Mcwhorter. The huge fire roared through East Tenth Street in Oakland just before 2 a.m. Firefighters say it destroyed the temple, two homes, five vehicles and three sheds. Four monks ...

OAKLAND — A three-alarm fire sparked by burning candles left unattended destroyed a Buddhist temple in East Oakland early Tuesday morning and also damaged some other homes and cars, officials said.