Unsung heroes fight censorship: Local librarians resist book bans targeting queer stories and programming, and uphold intellectual freedom.

To Oakland’s fire inspectors, the Ghost Ship warehouse really was invisible: The extremely dangerous building sailed unseen for years, evading fire-safety inspectors until it burned on Friday night.

Alonzo Carter pulled up to McClymonds High School in his burgundy and peanut-butter-colored drop-top ’87 Corvette. As he stepped out, wearing black knee-high leather boots, a leather jacket, and no ...

At the back end of a two-acre nursery lot in Oakland’s Sobrante Park neighborhood, where 105th Avenue dead-ends into Highway 880 and Lisjan Creek (otherwise known as San Lorenzo Creek) twists north on ...

Oakland is once again in an uproar over a fatal police shooting of an African-American man. In 2007, it was Gary King Jr. In 2009, it was Oscar Grant. In 2010, it was Derrick Jones. In 2011, it was ...

Jerry Brown considers the Oakland School for the Arts and the Oakland Military Institute to be among his signature achievements as mayor of Oakland. But one decade after he founded the schools, their ...

The City of Oakland lost a big whistleblower lawsuit yesterday in federal district court. The case, brought by Daryelle Lawana Preston, Oakland’s former director of employee relations, included ...

Folks who had given up on going to art shows a decade or so ago re-emerged February 6 at Oakstop, a co-working space and art gallery in Uptown Oakland. Event-goers rekindled relationships with old ...

On Sunday night, a white Oakland resident called the Oakland Police Department on a small group of Black and Latino drummers by Lake Merritt, resulting in multiple citations and sparking extensive ...

For forty years, the Bay Area Consortium for Quality Health Care, a private nonprofit, has provided medical services to low-income and uninsured people at sites in Oakland and Berkeley. With public ...

Gentrification isn’t just the physical remaking of a neighborhood. A key part of the process is the renaming of spaces to make them more appealing for affluent newcomers. Very often this results in ...

The Exotic Erotic Ball may be known for having “nothing to hide,” but its producers get a little cagey when the talk turns to their event’s history. For the past three years, the venerable affair has ...