Artist Julie Engelmann swiftly moves her hand across a wall, spraying pale yellow paint to make blond bangs. She’s working on Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu’s signature dyed hair from 40 feet in the ...
A group of parents has taken on Oakland’s sweltering classrooms, launching an ambitious effort to buy and install hundreds of portable air conditioning units. Partnering with the Oakland Public ...
The Dearing's home, left, was in 1924 the site of mob attacks, threats, attempted bombings, and other racial violence by Piedmont residents who sought to push the Black family out of the city. Credit: ...
Oakland’s decade-long coal war has officially come to an end, at least in the courts. Last Wednesday, the California Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling that effectively paves the ...
One of the only permitted projects from the community-led traffic calming project is a traffic island in East Oakland that was built by residents earlier in 2026. Credit: Traffic Violence Rapid ...
A Flock Safety automated license plate reader camera near 51st Street and Broadway in Oakland. Credit: Darwin BondGraham/The Oaklandside There are 293 automated license plate readers spread around ...
The Oakland City Council approved an updated sale agreement with a private developer on July 13, 2026 that outlines a new schedule for when Oakland will be paid for its portion of the Coliseum complex ...
After 25 years of serving small-batch chocolate cakes, peach raspberry pies and Hungarian kifli on Adeline St., Crixa Cakes is closing shop. An announcement from owners Elizabeth Kloian and Zoltan Der ...
At its peak a few years ago, some 200 or 300 people lived along Wood Street, at the western edge of Oakland. They slept in RVs, trailers, and sheds they built by hand. These days, that stretch of the ...
On Jan. 8, Gabriela Galicia, the executive director of Street Level Health Project, an Oakland nonprofit that works with the immigrant community, began receiving frantic calls and messages from day ...
The Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, seen here in November 2023, where the next hearing will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in the Oakland Police Department’s federal court ...
Halloween in Oakland is a month-long spooky spectacle with a range of events that cater to all ages and run the gamut from cute to skin-crawlingly creepy. If you have little ones who need to go ...
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