Students at MetWest High School gather before the start of class on the first day of school in August 2025. Credit: Jungho Kim for The Oaklandside There's no paywall here because our reporting is free ...

Parent LeAna Powell and teacher Alexandra Williams are both challenging school board vice-president Valarie Bachelor, who is ...

The Riders case exposed brutal beatings and corruption. After many setbacks and new scandals, a federal judge ruled the city ...

Lee balanced the city's budget with no layoffs but lost big when voters rejected Measure E. She's running in the November ...

A new law requires stringent environmental review and mitigation measures for the controversial fossil fuel export project.

Decades after the Loma Prieta earthquake and Oakland Hills firestorm, AC Alert offers a tool to help residents prepare.

A federal judge rejected a coal company's argument that it is owed hundreds of millions of dollars because of the city's ...

Payakk, an upscale Thai restaurant from the owners of Secrets of Tiger, is pairing technique, tradition and food science in ...

Pay remains an outstanding issue as doctors also describe unmanageable situations such as signing death certificates for ...

The Allston restaurant first opened in 2020, which was a return to Berkeley for Alborz, which had previously operated a ...

Jennifer Brouhard, the current board president, argues she’s built stability. Arielle Fleisher, an OUSD parent, sees a ...

Some 1,800 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from Oakland in 1942. A new exhibit explores Dorothea Lange's of those ...