Politics
Health workers, government officials, including Vice Mayor Desley Brooks, and dozens of mothers and their children gathered in front of Oakland City Hall Thursday afternoon to celebrate 2011 World Breastfeeding Week.
Made up of five Bay Area broadcast journalists and one musician, the Eyewitness Blues Band has been telling their own stories through music for five years. Check out the video of their performance on Wednesday at the Oakland City Center.
In October, The Oakland Museum of California will be displaying photos taken by Richard Misrach of the 1991 Oakland hills fire.
Across Oakland, residents gathered at 559 block parties, cookouts and get-togethers to mingle with their neighbors and promote public safety. Oakland North reporters and readers captured photos and and stories from the evening.
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.
Click through the slideshow above to find out more information about Uptown buildings designed in the Art Deco style in the 1930s.
More than 200 people flocked to the Jack London Square Aquatic Center on Wednesday evening to show support for Oakland’s bid to host the expansion project of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a massive scientific research institute run by UC Berkeley on behalf of Department of Energy.
The Oakland City Council debated a change to a proposed municipal ID card system and signed off on previously tentative deals with city unions at its final session of the summer Tuesday night.
An Alameda County Superior Court judge today denied the request to issue a temporary restraining order to halt the Oakland Zoo’s expansion project. The request, filed jointly by Friends of Knowland Park and the California Native Plants Society (CNPS), called for a three-week suspension of the zoo’s project, which the groups say will damage the natural habitat for endangered native species living in the city-owned Knowland Park.