Gardening has been added to the Oakland summer camp list of activities for the first time this year, and kids between the ages of 5 and 12 all over town are learning the basics of how to care for a garden.

Oakland North is continuing with our feature. Every Wednesday, we will publish a photo submitted by one of our readers. This week’s photo is by Hildegard Dodd.

All over town on Saturday, volunteers will head out to community gardens, dog parks, senior centers and schools to spend the day trying to improve Oakland. The Throwdown for the Town is an event organized by The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a community organizing nonprofit. More than 200 volunteers are signed up to work at one of the 25 service projects that will include working in community and school gardens, restoring vacant parking lots and helping out in…

Oakland North is continuing with our feature. Every Tuesday, Oakland Animal Services will spotlight an “Animal of the Week” that’s up for adoption at their facility. This week it’s Saya.

Artists from sessionspace painted a new mural on a Gateway Supermarket wall in the Golden Gate.

The Nightcap is a new series that will feature a favorite Oakland drinking establishment every Friday afternoon. This week, it’s CommonWealth Café and Public House.

The National Brotherhood of Cyclists is holding its second-annual conference in Oakland this weekend.

In October, The Oakland Museum of California will be displaying photos taken by Richard Misrach of the 1991 Oakland hills fire.

Oakland North is continuing with our feature. Every Wednesday, we will publish a photo submitted by one of our readers. This week’s photo is by George Loisos.

Sixty engineers and contractors on the construction site of a new air traffic control tower at the Oakland Airport have been furloughed as they wait for a new FAA reauthorization bill.

Oakland North is continuing with our feature. Every Tuesday, Oakland Animal Services will spotlight an “Animal of the Week” that’s up for adoption at their facility. This week it’s Astro the bunny.

Click through the slideshow above to find out more information about Uptown buildings designed in the Art Deco style in the 1930s.

One of the two men charged with murder in the death of Monica Rodas appeared in court Thursday morning but did not enter a plea.

If and when the Parkway Speakeasy Theater reopens, it won’t be at its former location east of Lake Merritt on Park Boulevard. Negotiations between a potential new operator and the building’s owners ended earlier this month, but two new possible locations, in the Auto Row and Temescal areas, remain in play.