Community
Individuals and groups work to diversify the local police force to show Oaklanders that their community is being properly represented.
In an election expected to have unprecedentedly low turnout in Alameda County, every vote is crucial to those working on “get out the vote” campaigns.
With fifteen mayoral candidates and more than a handful of measures on this year’s ballot, Oakland voters make their voices heard.
Bike East Bay, a group working for safe and convenient bicycling for all, took to the streets of Oakland to focus on cycling safety.
Thousands attended the East Bay Mini Maker Faire, an annual gathering of inventors, technologists, engineers, science clubs and artists. The event included 170 projects, such as mini-robots, a home-made butter shaker and a clothing swap.
OpenOakland co-founder Steve “Spike” Spiker works to increase civic involvement and local government data transparency through technology.
A fire broke out in a cottage on a property in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, Nov. 2, 2014.
The first things I had to learn were Jack o’ lantern, trick or treat, and you better get a costume! A week ago, I started seeing people on the bus, in grocery stores and other places, with pumpkins, real or plastic. To me, the pumpkin is a vegetable that can be cooked with Sudanese peanut butter, or with meat, to become pumpkin stew. In some villages the dry pumpkin is cut in the shape of a cup that is used…
The Oakland Police Department announced the arrest of a 20-year-old suspect, Carl Stephen Dubose, in connection with the fatal shooting of Perla Avina, a 30-year-old mother of four.