The annual one-day festival at Lake Merritt uplifts Oakland culture while raising awareness of social justice issues ...

Now, after roughly eight months hosting pop-ups and catering in the interim, the Understory team has a new space to call home ...

A "train control system problem" was reported early Friday but as of 9:21 a.m., BART posted on X that it has restored service systemwide.

Candace Reese Walters, a former Department of Violence Prevention employee, accused her boss, former Violence Prevention Chief Guillermo Cespedes, of sexual harassment.

The School,” about Oakland’s Hintil Ku’u Ca preschool, premieres this month. The film documents the school’s origins in the Red Power Movement and community efforts to keep it open.

Although Pierre Pierre hasn't paid rent in a year, the Tribune Tower’s owner wants the fine-dining restaurant to get current ...

A committee studying the dual role of Alameda County’s registrar of voters and chief information officer has found there is a “lack of capacity” to do both jobs optimally, despite the ROV and his ...

Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee is appointing Miya Saika Chen as her chief of staff, marking the first big appointment of her administration. Lee, who will be sworn in on May 20, said in a press ...

Oakland is a big, diverse, and complicated city, and it’s foolhardy to generalize about its residents. But the 2025 mayor’s race was decided by voters who split along an old line of difference that ...

The city agreed to pay an attorney $207,000 and improve its procedures for handling elections and public records.

Oakland’s new two-year budget proposes a lot of cuts, but not when it comes to police overtime. The budget announced by Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins yesterday would give OPD $33.6 million to spend on ...