The Oakland Unified School District and AC Transit have announced that bus transportation service to Montera Middle School, Skyline High School and Community Day School will...
Tenants’ rights advocates flood state capitol building, vow to take issue to ballot box A bill to repeal statewide restrictions on rent control is dead in...
City staff, along with Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan (front left) and Abel Guillén, hosted a meeting Monday evening at City Hall to hear community feedback on proposed...
The school board of the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) voted Monday to give itself a raise despite their multi-million dollar budget deficit. Each of the...
The City of Oakland is hosting a public meeting Monday, Jan 8 for Oakland’s small, minority and women-owned construction firms to learn about the latest proposal...
District 6 City Councilmember Desley Brooks is sponsoring an ordinance that would set aside 5 percent of the city’s capital improvement project costs to support some...
Vernon Hal. Photo Courtesy of East Bay Express. Oakland public schools’ Senior Business Officer Vernon Hal, who has served the district for two decades, turned in...
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News Basic steps to prevent infections — such as washing hands, isolating contagious patients and keeping ill nurses and aides from...
On Sunday morning, Dec. 10, Mayor Libby Schaaf will attend a breakfast and discussion on homelessness in West Oakland, hosted by the Market Street Seventh Day Adventist Church,...
Recent meetings of the Peralta Colleges’ Board of Trustees were packed with supporters and opponents of the proposed A’s stadium near Laney College. Photo courtesy of...
The #WeChoose Campaign has already organized over 30 town hall meetings across the country engaging communities in building grassroots visions for public education. The next step...
Rampant Racial Harassment Allegedly Includes Use of Term “Nigger” Throughout Tesla’s Fremont Factory According to a class action lawsuit filed this week in Alameda County, standard...
Teachers, students and residents of Richmond and San Pablo rallied this week at the Board of Education meeting of the West Contra Costa Unified School District...
Community members from around the East Bay rallied and marched Sunday to save Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley. Photo by Ken Epstein. Community members,...
The board of directors and staff of Pacific News Service (PNS), the parent organization of the nonprofit New America Media (NAM), has announced that the two...
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – According to the following statistics, the economic condition of America’s Black community is in dire straits: A recent study by...
Volunteers from working America canvassers go door to door to talk to residents about fundamental issues that affect them and their families. Volunteers from Oakland, Berkeley...
Left to right: Star, a student, parent volunteer Tolani King and John, an Alhambra Water employee, stand next to a new water dispenser that was installed...
FCMAT CEO Michael Fine was previously deputy superintendent for business services of the Riverside Unified School District. Photo courtesy of John Fensterwald/EdSource. In an attempt to...
The Oakland Unified School District is on a fast track to renovate and reopen its historic administration building, which has been closed since January 2013 when...
Left to right: Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Marc Morial and Angela Glover Blackwell spoke Wednesday evening in Oakland about the risk of President Trump´s policies to African Americans. Photo...
Minister Georgia Taylor, an Oakland resident, was born Sept. 13, 1917 in Tulsa Oklahoma to parents Monroe and Pearlie Younger. She is one of nine siblings....
City Council President Larry Reid and Councilmember Annie Campbell Washington (In blue dress) speak at press conference in favor of a ban on the sale of...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein toured UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco on Friday, July 7, highlighting the importance of safeguarding Medicaid for the health of children and...
The City of Richmond is reevaluating how to address damaged sidewalks that have led to an increase in injury lawsuits in recent years. From 2012 to...
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