Sunset on Lake Merritt. Photo by Anne Sunderland, our Community Photo of the Week for September 17, 2014.
By Oakland North Staff | June 5, 2015 2:00 pm
Oakland North is a project of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and now that it’s summer, our students are on break to work internships at other publications. We’ll be back to train a new class of student reporters in early September. If you’ve found us over the summer, here are a few highlights from the...
By Loi Almeron Posted May 29, 2015 1:39 pm
A state bill to grant professional cheerleaders a minimum wage, workers’ benefits and overtime compensation,...
A multimedia story about a program that will help at-risk students in the East Bay...
By Gabriela Arvizu Posted May 20, 2015 9:00 am
For the last three years, Connor Crabb has been working as a recreation leader at...
By Faviola Leyva Posted May 19, 2015 9:00 am
The California State Bar’s Public Law Section has named Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker the...
By Semany Gashaw Posted May 18, 2015 9:28 am
For Oakland’s artists, The Flight Deck, an arts and performance venue, is an open home....
By Melina Tupa Posted May 14, 2015 9:00 am
Meet Nomin Gambat, a 5-year-old girl who traveled all the way from Mongolia to Children’s Hospital Oakland...
By Gabriel J. Sanchez Posted May 13, 2015 9:00 am
East Bay residents are joining with demonstrators across the state to protest against what advocates...
By Alsanosi Adam Posted May 12, 2015 9:38 am
At the Oakland Cottage Industry Show at the Park Boulevard Presbyterian Church two weeks ago,...
By Ruth Miller, Posted May 11, 2015 12:00 pm
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s 384-page proposed budget includes a subtle but potentially significant change to the structure of Oakland’s city government: the creation of a Department of Transportation (DOT). It turns out Oakland has never, in its 162-year history, had a department dedicated to transportation. This omission is long overdue for correction, which needs to occur...
By Hans Liedtke Posted May 11, 2015 9:21 am
This year is the driest in recorded history in California. This has forced the East Bay...
By Noelia González Posted May 8, 2015 5:57 pm
After almost two years of planning, on April 28, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland announced...
By Naomi Nishihara Posted May 7, 2015 3:52 pm
The Town Kitchen—an Oakland food startup that employs low-income youth—has graduated from an accelerator program...
By Loi Almeron Posted May 6, 2015 9:09 am
Kelsey James-Kavanaugh, a prospective graduate student in wildlife conservation who lives in Oakland, aims to...
By Rachel Hiles Posted May 5, 2015 5:22 pm
California is very, very dry these days. And with fire season around the corner, some...
By Noelia González Posted May 4, 2015 11:02 am
There’s something furry connecting the distant island of Madagascar, off the eastern coast of Africa,...
By Alsanosi Adam Posted May 1, 2015 11:07 am
On May 2, the Oakland Cottage Industry Show (OCIS) is hosting the first of their...
By Joshua Chin Posted April 30, 2015 12:03 pm
A solar micro grid, now being shipped in pieces, will arrive in Uganda early June....
By Melina Tupa Posted April 29, 2015 10:16 am
The New Parish in Downtown Oakland is packed. About 300 attendees wave their hands and...
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Meet Nomin Gambat, a 5-year-old girl who traveled all the way from Mongolia to Children’s Hospital Oakland to seek a clinical treatment for a disease so rare it strikes only 1...
By Melina Tupa | May 14, 2015 9:00 am
