Community
Sam Yuen secured his job with help from Bay Area community organizations that connect adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to employers.
Where can you get Frida Kahlo trinkets and lemonades with quirky Spanish names like “la Soltera?” Mercado Latinx, of course. It’s a bi-monthly event in Oakland that’s all about Latinx culture.
Lindsey Page wanted to start a gym that met the needs of queer and trans POC. Today, she’s running Fruitvale’s Radically Fit gym.
Incumbent Mayor Libby Schaaf and candidate Cat Brooks sparred over issues of education and homelessness during the second mayoral forum of the election season.
Sudo Mesh volunteers are hopeful that with the new resources and the right work, they can blanket all of Oakland in a functioning mesh network—a free and open web—within 5 years.
Dance instructor Carla Service led her final Dancing Under the Stars class at Jack London Square on August 31.
A pastor, a construction manager, and a Fulbright scholar—these are a few of the seven candidates running to represent District 4.
As the city and local volunteers rush to assist those displaced by an early morning fire at the East Oakland homeless encampment, questions and concerns about safe living spaces still remain.
Oakland City Council has just six weeks to act before a controversial rent control exemption goes back into effect after a temporary moratorium.