
Bay Wheels looking to add hundreds of e-bikes to East Bay fleet
Bay Wheels looking to add hundreds of e-bikes to East Bay fleet
Getting around town might get a lot easier, especially for college students in the East Bay.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission wants to subsidize 20,000 annual Bay Wheels passe…
May 23, 2023

Bay Area Children’s Theatre shuts down: ‘We are heartbroken that BACT cannot continue to carry out its vital mission.’
Bay Area Children’s Theatre shuts down: ‘We are heartbroken that BACT cannot continue to carry out its vital mission.’
After nearly 20 years staging shows for and with children, Bay Area Children’s Theatre shut down Wednesday, citing “unsustainable debt,” brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
…May 19, 2023

VIDEO: To no avail, residents use OAK311 app to clean up Lafayette Square Park
VIDEO: To no avail, residents use OAK311 app to clean up Lafayette Square Park
Many Oakland residents are using the OAK311 app to report the poor conditions of their community parks, where debris is dumped, benches are splintered and children are playing on rusted equipment…
May 17, 2023
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Oakland eviction moratorium will end July 15
Oakland’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium is set to expire on July 15, the council decided Tuesday, passing an ordinance that also will add permanent tenant protections to address housing instability in read more…
April 21, 2023

As sideshows escalate, residents turn to Oakland Council, which can’t agree on crackdown
Oakland has been trying to curb sideshows for years and even celebrated a “sideshow-free” summer in 2010, but the illegal street car shows haven’t gone away, and City Council seems read more…
April 18, 2023

Judge keeps Oakland police under federal oversight, looks to address ‘cultural rot’
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday asked the Oakland Police Department, the mayor, and lawyers who brought a class-action suit against the department for input to address what read more…
April 12, 2023

Displaced for 95 days, Coliseum Connections residents demand answers from city and landlord
Dozens of displaced Coliseum Connections Apartments residents protested Wednesday, the 95th day of their displacement from a Jan. 1 flood, calling on the city and landlord to do more to read more…
April 6, 2023

Break-ins set Oakland Chinatown businesses back: ‘Things were slowly getting better, then all of a sudden the doom arrived.’
It was quiet in Oakland Chinatown at 3 a.m. on Thursday, March 23. The last two eateries on Eighth Street — Lounge Chinatown and New Gold Medal Restaurant — were read more…
April 5, 2023

AAPI choreographers join forces in new Oakland ballet that breaks racial stereotypes
Unabashed joy takes center stage at this year’s Oakland Ballet Dancing Moons Festival, which features what may be a first for an American ballet company — a new, all-Asian American read more…
March 10, 2023


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