The Oakland Zoo opened a new center dedicated to conserving the rich variety of wildlife in California and beyond.
Community activists and environmentalists want the City of Oakland to permanently block a proposed giant crematory proposed near the airport.
On weekends, shoppers fill the sidewalks of Oakland’s Chinatown to browse open air markets, gift stores, restaurants and bakeries.
Enjoy the photo gallery for our weekly series, The Pulse of Oakland. This week’s featured ZIP code is 94607. The area includes the waterfront, Chinatown, West Oakland and the Port of Oakland. Oakland North reporters will be taking photographs documenting each of the ZIP codes in Oakland over the next few months. Every neighborhood is diverse and different, and we want to capture that. Of course, we can’t see everything in Oakland ourselves. So we also want to know how…