Former city administrator testifies Thao never told him to bypass bidding process on housing purchase
Former City Administrator Jestin Johnson testified Thursday that former Mayor Sheng Thao asked him to visit a modular-housing company at the center of her federal corruption trial but never instructed read more…
City moves to sell Garfield Park athletic field to OUSD
Oakland moved closer to selling a portion of Garfield Park to the Oakland Unified School District on Tuesday, raising questions about whether community groups will continue to have access to read more…
ICE entered Highland Hospital without a warrant; Alameda County Supervisors want answers
Alameda Health System officials told the Alameda County Supervisors Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were allowed into a patient’s room at Highland Hospital, though they did not show read more…
Union representing city technical workers plans one-day strike
The faint sounds of chants and drums echoed through Downtown Oakland Tuesday, as city workers represented by the International Federation of Professional Technical Engineers Union Local 21 marched from Oakland read more…
Protesters say ICE presence in Oakland is keeping immigrants from social services
Activists gathered in a parking lot at the Eastmont Town Center in Oakland on Sunday to demand that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement not be allowed into the social read more…
Día de los Muertos altars honor strangers as well as loved ones at Oakland Museum
Drums pounded as members of Danza Xitlalli, an Aztec dance group, circled the lawn of the Oakland Museum of California on Sunday, turning counterclockwise, then clockwise, to open the museum’s read more…
