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(Update: When the votes were certified on Dec. 5, Nikki Fortunato Bas was declared the winner, by 425 votes.) Emeryville City Council member John Bauters was ahead of Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas in the Alameda County supervisors race, early vote tallies showed Tuesday night. Both candidates promised to prioritize housing, homelessness, and public safety. They are running for the seat that Keith Carson has held since 1992. He announced in December that he would be retiring. The seat…
Incumbent Carroll Fife led a crowded field in the Oakland City Council District 3 race after the first vote counts came in Tuesday night. Fife is seeking a second term against five contenders. Her main priorities have been affordable housing, community safety, improving the city’s economy and environmental justice. She did not respond to requests for an interview. If re-elected, her campaign website says, she will work toward implementing more affordable housing, protecting tenants from high rents, and investing in…
Oakland firefighter Zac Unger made a strong showing in early returns Tuesday, with more than three-quarters of the votes for the District 1 City Council seat at 9 p.m. He is running against Len Raphael, an accountant and owner of a bicycle store and auto repair shop, and Edward Frank, a homemaker led early in the returns tuesday night in his efforts to represent the city council District 1 The seat will change hands for the first time since Dan…
A tax that would fund wildfire prevention in Oakland was winning in early returns Tuesday night, with 70% of the votes. Measure MM would fund efforts in Oakland’s Wildfire Prevention Zone, an area most acutely at risk for wildfire damage, through an annual parcel tax of $99 per single-family home and $65 per multifamily unit or condominium. The tax would last 20 years. The measure needs a two-thirds majority to pass. It was put only to voters in the Wildfire…
(Update: After the votes were certified on Dec. 5, these were the results: Voters recalled Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price; Lateefah Simon won the 12th Congressional District seat; Oakland Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas won a seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors; Oakland City Council seats were won by Rowena Brown, Zac Unger, Noel Gallo, Carroll Fife and Ken Houston; Ryan Richardson is the new city attorney. In the Oakland Unified School District,…
Shawna Lynn Jones died while fighting a fire that raged through the hills of Malibu in 2016. She was struck by a boulder and suffered major head trauma just over a month before she was due to be released from prison. “So that just is an extreme example of, like, what slavery can do in this state,” said Alissa Moore, reentry coordinator for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, who was imprisoned at the California Institution for Women in Chino…
Dozens of models strutted down a runway at the Rockridge BART station on Saturday, the crowd around them whooping and snapping cellphone pictures. Their outfits were stylish, original and almost entirely made of paper — old BART tickets to be precise. In a competition between four schools, students from the Academy of Art University, Oakland School for the Arts, City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University were tasked with one job: upcycle old BART tickets into fashion. …
The Oakland Ballers delivered in their inaugural season, reviving the city’s baseball legacy with a wining season and a playoff berth. “Welcome to the next chapter of baseball in Oakland,” blares a voice over the public address system in Raimondi Park, the B’s home field in West Oakland. Fans have flocked to the bleachers, nearly 2,000 on average at each home game. Only a few thousand more have been going to the Coliseum to see the A’s play their last…
Oakland officer killed in line of duty was a Vietnamese immigrant on the force for nearly four years
An Oakland police officer was shot and killed Friday, responding to an overnight burglary on the 400 block of Embarcadero. Officer Tuan Le was in plain clothes and driving an unmarked car when he was shot around 4:30 a.m., police said at a news conference Friday. Le, 36, emigrated from Vietnam when he was a child and joined the force in 2020. He was the 54th Oakland officer to be killed in the line of duty. “I am truly devastated…