Oakland at Work: PG&E electrical lineman
Red caution tape cordons off the sidewalk where Eric Wright and his crew are working on electrical wires.
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Oakland by the Zip Code: Photos from the 94621
Enjoy the photo gallery for our weekly series, The Pulse of Oakland. This week’s featured ZIP code is 94619, which includes the airport, the Oakland Coliseum and more.
An Alameda beekeeper collaborates with Oakland businesses to make sweet soaps
When she started keeping bees as a hobby six years ago, tattoo artist Jean Chen never thought she’d be making a living from them in her kitchen. But on April 28, Chen quit her job...
Oakland named America’s “most exciting city” in Movoto top 10 list
Oakland. Home of the Black Panthers. Of Gertrude Stein. Of notorious corners, multimillion-dollar drug empires. Hyphy music. Hella. And, more recently, of the upscale Blue Bottle Coffee. Now according to an online real estate company called...
LOL and squeeee! It’s Oakland’s Internet Cat Video Festival
An estimated 6,000 cat lovers gathered in Oakland on Saturday for the Internet Cat Video Festival. Yes, you read that right—Internet Cat Video Festival.
Oakland cyclists celebrate Bike to Work Day
Extremely tall pink bikes, decorated beach cruisers, twin bikes and even a Scandinavian model took over the streets of Old Oakland Wednesday evening and clustered at the Happy Hour Bike Party as Oaklanders celebrated the...
Planned Parenthood opens on Seventh Street in West Oakland
There are a number of free or discounted health clinics across Oakland -- like La Clinica de la Raza in the Fruitvale, or Asian Health Services in Chinatown. Now, West Oakland has its own reproductive...
Oakland by the Zip Code: Photos from the 94619
Enjoy the photo gallery for our weekly series, The Pulse of Oakland. This week’s featured ZIP code is 94619, which includes Redwood Regional Park and part of the Oakland Hills.
Awaiting a charter appeal, AIMS community finishes school year, uncertain of the future
The American Indian Model Schools (AIMS) community is counting down until the last day of school, June 30, which could be the last day of classes for the controversial three-school charter organization.
Media Enterprise Alliance teaches media skills to Oakland teens
Media Enterprise Alliance teaches students from Oakland high schools how to create and produce their own media.
Cinco De Mayo in Oakland’s Fruitvale
Coatlicue drummers and dancers occupied the island between East and West-bound traffic on International Blvd in Oakland, as they celebrated and prayed. With shells at their ankles and feathers on their crowns, over a dozen...
Oakland at Work: Driving a bus for AC Transit
The sky starts to lighten as Joyce Masih heads out to her bus. It's just after 6 a.m. at the AC Transit bus yard in Hayward, and Masih is all smiles.
This Weekend in Oakland
Community events and activities for the weekend of April 26-28, 2013. Got an event we didn’t know about? Please add it in the comments! Friday, May 3 First Friday 5-10 p.m. Telegraph Ave. from West...
Immigration reform hits home for Oaklanders in Tuesday vigil
Frank H. Ogawa Plaza looked a little bit like Vatican City Tuesday, as the dramatic afternoon light illuminated the faces of nuns, priests and immigrant families who gathered together in prayer and supplication. The goal:...
Oakland by the Zip Code: Photos from the 94618
Enjoy the photo gallery for our weekly series, The Pulse of Oakland. This week’s featured ZIP code is 94618, which include Rockridge and parts of the Oakland Hills. Oakland North reporters will be taking photographs...
After the raid: For patients, worries that medical marijuana dispensaries will shut down
Oakland resident Sableu Cabildo was diagnosed at the end of 2011 with a kind of brain cancer known as an astrocytoma. It originated on the right side of her thalamus, the lobed mass under the...
