IS THERE A MONSTER IN LAKE MERRITT? SCIENTIST SAYS YES!
Few know what lurks the depths of the murky, brackish, crustacean-filled Lake Merritt. Few know what beastly beast, what cryptid, what leviathan, what man-eating monster...
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Summer treat series: Refreshing drinks
By Dara Kerr Posted
Throughout the month of June, Oakland North is featuring a weekly food and drink series of summer treats that can be found in Oakland. This...
Summer treat series: Latin treats in Fruitvale
By Dara Kerr Posted
Throughout the month of June, Oakland North is featuring a weekly food series of summer treats that can be found in Oakland. This third installment...
Oakland airport to offer direct charter flights to Cuba
By Dara Kerr Posted
Just six months ago, because of travel sanctions against Cuba, a U.S. citizen could have faced up to a $55,000 fine and possibly served jail...
Bites on Broadway kicks off weekly summer mobile food fest
By Dara Kerr Posted
Like one giant neighborhood picnic, “Bites on Broadway” officially launched its weekly food extravaganza last Friday. People laid down blankets on the grassy lawn of...
Children’s Hospital and Clorox partner up to fight against life-threatening disease
By Dara Kerr Posted
In 2005, Elijah Adams, a 10-year-old North Oakland boy, died from meningococcal disease, an often-deadly form of bacterial meningitis. Just a year earlier, 20-year-old UC...
Summer treat series: Middle Eastern corridor on Telegraph
By Dara Kerr Posted
Over the next month, Oakland North is featuring a food series on summer treats in Oakland. This second installment in the series focuses on Middle...
166 animal adoptions from Oakland Animal Services during adoptathon
By Dara Kerr Posted
Oakland Animal Services was able to raise $102,500 with 71 cat and 95 dog adoptions during last weekend’s second annual Maddie’s Matchmaker Adoptathon. The adoptathon...
Dan Fontes paints murals on city buildings, warehouses and under highways
By Dara Kerr Posted
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1983, Dan Fontes was under Highway 580 at Harrison Street in North Oakland painting on a massive round concrete highway...
Free animal adoptions at Maddie’s Matchmaker Adoptathon
By Dara Kerr Posted
Miss Twiggy is an overweight Rottweiler with hyperthyroidism and an affectionate personality. She’s 4 years old, fairly slow moving and loves to cuddle. And she...
Alameda County uses its dollars to go green
By Dara Kerr Posted
Most people may not know that the carpets in Alameda County’s General Services Agency’s office in downtown Oakland are partially made from shredded recycled plastic...
Cargo ship plugs in at the Port of Oakland to reduce diesel emissions
By Dara Kerr Posted
Gigantic 10-story tall ships that stretch three football fields long line the wharf at the Port of Oakland. There’s constant movement as big white cranes...
Summer treat series: Oakland Chinatown
By Dara Kerr and Kate McLean, Posted
Over the next month, Oakland North is featuring a food series on summer treats in Oakland. Chinatown is the first installment in the series. One...
The Gathering Place offers a new way for youth in foster care to visit their parents
By Dara Kerr Posted
Across from Highway 880, a non-descript five-story beige building with few windows sits on a corner in downtown Oakland. For years, this was the place...
Despite criticism, Harold Camping remains adamant the world is ending
By Dara Kerr Posted
Harold Camping predicted that on May 21 a colossal global earthquake—the likes of which no one has ever felt before—would tear across the Earth, catalyzing...
Oakland’s first pedal-powered food cart hits the streets
By Dara Kerr Posted
What do you get when you have a taco truck but take away the gasoline and one wheel? El TacoBike! This new meal on wheels...
