A local group, Friends of Crown Beach, is stepping up efforts to stop a housing development on government surplus lands adjacent to Crown Memorial State Beach...
Councilmember Noel Gallo, District 5, presented a report Tuesday afternoon at the Public Safety Committee Meeting to ban Internet cafés that may be conducting illegal online...
The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $28.5 million in improvements to the Stockton Metropolitan Airport. The five-year plan would allow for...
Well-known Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris, who has gained a national reputation for representing, victims of police abuse, spoke recently to local students and educators...
The death of Minister Rhonda White-Warner, a well-known community and spiritual leader who gave the opening prayer at BASE/BTAN World AIDS Day event, has sent shock...
Bay Area actress and recording artist Zendaya and award-winning film “Fruitvale Station are among the nominees for the 45th NAACP Image Awards, which recognize the talents...
Supervisor Kate Sears, who has represented Marin County’s District 3 since June 2011, on Tuesday was elected president of the Board of Supervisors for the first...
Ski Ball and PacMan machines made from cardboard – those were some of the popular arcade games people came across as they attended the Berkeley Lawrence...
By Barbara Fluhrer East Oakland Leadership Academy students and faculty attended a concert last Saturday evening at Holy Names University’s Regents Theatre featuring internationally renowned pianist...
When a new 80,000-square-foot Food Co. opens in Foothill Square next month, it will be the fulfillment of a dream of City Councilmember Larry Reid, who...
Highway 37 from Highway 80 to Highway 29 has been renamed the Vallejo Police Officer James Capoot Memorial Highway, in memory of the officer who was...
Charlotte, NC – They came in as a wild card and have proven they belong back in the playoffs. The Forty-Niners are headed back to the...
The Guardians of Youth Gala is presenting “A Night at the Oscars,” a fundraising dinner benefiting the Continentals of Omega Boys & Girls Club, which has...
Newly Elected Councilmembers Pippin Dew, Katy Miessner and Rozzana Verder-Aliga were sworn in along with returning Councilman Jess Malgapo to Vallejo City Council this week. Departing...
For many families of color who do not have deep pockets and friends and families in high places, interactions with police, the judicial system and even...
Playwright, poet laureate, and political activist Amiri Baraka died Thursday at Beth Israel Medical Center after weeks of failing health. He was 79. A Newark, New...
Oakland attorney Dan Siegel kicked off his mayoral campaign Thursday, staking out a progressive campaign that pledges to translate local development into jobs, keep gentrification from...
By D. Demond King, The Redemption Center Recent legislation in Colorado legalizing recreational marijuana use is being touted as a “springboard” by many supporters of the...
The City of Oakland has authorized paying an Army veteran $645,000 to settle a lawsuit against the city, alleging that the man was severely beaten by...
San Francisco, CA – Phil Dawson’s field goal advanced the 49ers to the next round of the playoffs. Many predicted the freezing cold would keep the...
A Better Chance, established in 1963, is the oldest national organization of its kind that works to create educational opportunities for academically talented youth of color...
The internationally acclaimed African Children’s Choir will again perform in concert Sunday, January 19 at 10 a.m. at The Church by the Side of the Road...
By UC Berkeley News Janet Yellen, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a trailblazer for women economists in academia, will become...
The long-running NBC sketch comedy program, “Saturday Night Live,” will add Sasheer Zamata to the cast this month, making Zamata the first Black female cast member...
By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley Susan F. Rasky, an award-winning Congressional reporter who returned to her native California to teach at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of...
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