It’s no accident that the narrator of Carol LaHines’s second novel, The Vixen Amber Halloway, is a literature professor named ...

If you’ve ever felt powerless when confronted with faceless bureaucracy, confounded by absurd accusations or simply hopeless, ...

Across the Oakland Unified School District, the mantra for school staff is to call city police only as a last resort. If a ...

With painfully beautiful lyrics strewn over dark and sultry keys and a coarse drum pattern, the song “Trials,” off of East ...

Teacher layoffs are are often by seniority, but that can exacerbate churn and undermine efforts to recruit more Black and ...

The ruins of Sutro Baths, at the far western edge of San Francisco, are mysterious. Clearly something big used to stand here.

Three teenagers were killed in Oakland during two fatal shootings early Monday morning, according to Oakland police officials. The first shooting took place around 1:30 a.m. near 10th Street on ...

Farmworkers face some of the most intense exposures to the bird flu virus, but advocates say many of them would lack ...

Simon Russell, the PEC’s enforcement chief, filed a complaint alleging OUST is using Foundational Oakland Unites, a recently ...

The eight-alarm fire in North Fair Oaks forced neighbors to evacuate and sent a thick plume of smoke into the air.

Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, June 7, 2024…  The California Supreme Court has ruled that UC Berkeley can ...

A vehicle fire in one of the two eastbound bores of the Caldecott Tunnel closed Highway 24 from Oakland into Orinda for hours ...