On June 11, the City of Vallejo welcomed 14 new interns as a part of the City’s new summer internship program. The 10-week pilot program provides...
Councilmember Noel Gallo is calling for the city to remove unhoused residents living near Home Depot’s Fruitvale store. Many residents at the encampment, however, claim they...
Bas wins $12 million for Community Land Trust affordable housing fund Voting Tuesday night, the Oakland City Council adopted a two-year, $3.2 billion budget, partially resolving...
After opening three community cabin sites, the City of Oakland is continuing its plan to create more sites and has also laid plans to open RV...
Ray Leon, a popular staffer at Oakland City Hall, is retiring after more than 28 years of service to Oakland residents. A longtime aide to District...
The conflict between Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration and city workers is intensifying after Oakland officials declared an impasse in negotiations with two major employee unions just...
The Henry J. Kaiser (HJK) Convention Center redevelopment proposal is being fast-tracked by the city despite significant community concerns—including lack of affordability, an operational model developed...
City workers are fighting for what we love: the people of Oakland. City services, including picking up illegal dumping, filling potholes, and implementing affordable housing programs...
Community says Schaaf’s budget hides $45 million ‘slush fund’ Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf could have responded to City Council President Rebecca Kaplan’s amendments to her administration’s...
Roads, facilities, affordable housing prioritized as plan heads to Board The County of Marin will present its 2019-2020 fiscal year budget next week, up 7 percent...
Mayor London Breed has announced that San Francisco has implemented an expansion of the CalFresh food assistance program to alleviate hunger for thousands living on low...
San Francisco Mayor London Breed presented her budget priorities on Friday that included expanding behavioral health beds, creating new affordable housing, and cleaner streets. The budget...
Writing a budget is about the numbers, and it is also about our values. After the release of Mayor Libby Schaaf’s budget proposal, the law requires...
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has appointed Oakland School Boardmember Roseann Torres as co-chair of his statewide Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative. Torres will...
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and the County Board of Supervisors are facing a growing furor from Oakland residents and community groups demanding an independent audit...
The Arab American Foundation presented their 2019 Award for Individual Achievement to former Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport at their annual Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards...
More than 1,000 apartments, retail and commercial space to revive Seventh Street Decades after BART rolled through West Oakland destroying what was once a vibrant, Black,...
Golden Gate University School of Law featured Contra Costa County District Attorney and alumna Diana Becton as the keynote speaker at its recent commencement program held...
California Treasurer Fiona Ma has appointed Frederick Jordan of San Francisco to the California High-Speed Rail Authority Peer Review. The California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group...
California Treasurer Fiona Ma says Dr. Scott best in her field and has decades of experience California Treasurer Fiona Ma has appointed Dr. Beverly A. Scott...
The Board of Education’s Community of Schools Policy calls on us to reimagine our school system to ensure a quality school for all Oakland students. We...
City Council President Rebecca Kaplan has called a special City Council meeting in June to present proposed amendments to the $3.2 billion, two-year budget proposal recently...
The Oakland City Council has taken a first step in codifying building standards currently used for Tuffshed encampments, approving housing facilities for the homeless that could be...
As the 2018-19 Oakland Unified School District’s (OUSD) academic year winds down in the wake of an historic teachers’ strike, Oakland educators, students, and their supporters...
Almost half of the injured scooter riders in Austin, Texas, identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its first-ever study of dockless electric...
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