The corner of 17th Street and Lakeside Drive, where the fatality took place, had been redesigned with pedestrian and cyclist ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is running for a full term in this year’s election. Compared to the crowded special election in ...

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 ...

Electric kitchen conversions are expensive, but as California weans itself off fossil fuels, these chefs say it’s good for ...

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

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 ...

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

District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife, pictured at a meeting in October, had fought for a homeless shelter at the North Gateway parcel and is now proposing that Oakland negotiate with Costco Wholesale ...

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