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HUB Oakland launches Kickstarter campaign for new Uptown location
More than 500 people from around the Bay Area attended a launch party in downtown Oakland Monday to help HUB Oakland try and raise $100,000 so that it can move into a large, permanent space in the...
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Oakland company bridges writing and tech with the Smartpen
Oakland-based Livescribe, Inc. has taken the ancient art of writing and turned it into a high-tech concept that helps professionals and students maximize their ability to capture information and move...
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Children’s Hospital doctor talks Oakland violence, trauma consequences
Allison Briscoe-Smith, the director of the Center for the Vulnerable Child at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, sees consequences in Oakland’s violence that extend far beyond the victims to become a...
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Oakland startup helping small businesses ‘pop up’ around town
Old Oakland’s downtown business district is getting a facelift. Brick and mortar stores are making a comeback. New establishments are showing up in neighborhoods where there were once empty...
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Summer jobs for youth in Oakland will be coming soon
As the days get longer and the temperature begins to rise, school will end in just a few short months. In the Oakland Unified School District, the last day of school is June 13 and classes will resume...
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Unions protest Quan’s proposed budget at City Council meeting
Some 250 workers rallied on City Hall steps ahead of Tuesday's City Council meeting to protest the mayor’s proposed budget, which focuses on investments in public safety, job creation, economic...
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Birds on the Bay Bridge
Of all the birds that nest on or around the Bay Bridge—gulls, terns, pelicans, pigeons, falcons, hummingbirds—Lauren Bingham is most concerned with the cormorants. It’s not that they’re worse, bird by...
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Cinco De Mayo in Oakland’s Fruitvale
Coatlicue drummers and dancers occupied the island between East and West-bound traffic on International Blvd in Oakland, as they celebrated and prayed. With shells at their ankles and feathers on...
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Oakland named America’s “most exciting city” in Movoto top 10 list
Oakland. Home of the Black Panthers. Of Gertrude Stein. Of notorious corners, multimillion-dollar drug empires. Hyphy music. Hella. And, more recently, of the upscale Blue Bottle Coffee. Now according...
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As Clorox turns 100, looking at the Oakland company’s executive pay
Best known for its red, white and blue bottle, Clorox has been the standard “clean scent” for many Americans for over a century.
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Alameda school board faces decision on American Indian Model Schools
The Alameda County Board of Education will rule on Tuesday whether to reverse a decision that revoked the academic accreditation of a nationally lauded charter school system. American Indian Model...
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Friday Night Comes Alive in West Oakland
Despite funding issues that have forced the West Oakland Youth Center to remain closed for now, last week the center’s staff kicked off Friday Night Live, a new series of community events that will...
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Commuters sound off on Bay Bridge closure
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be shut down Wednesday night for a five-day construction project by Caltrans, the Bay Area Toll Authority and the California Transportation Commission.
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Bay Bridge bike path, dedicated to Oakland bike advocate, opens
Hundreds of cyclists thronged the Bay Bridge on Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the span’s new bicycle and pedestrian path.
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Oaklanders worry redistricting will lead to imbalance during elections
New proposed boundaries between Oakland’s hills and flatlands are near the top of the agenda as Oakland prepares to redraw boundaries of city council and school board districts.
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Energy innovators shine at Solar Hackathon ’13
Amid the clacking of keys and the slurping of Red Bull energy drinks, about 30 computer hackers recently gathered in Oakland. Their goal: to make solar energy easier, cheaper and more fun to use. The...
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‘Communities of interest’ at forefront of redistricting talks
The Oakland City Council tackled the thorny issue of redistricting Tuesday night, hearing from communities of interest about balancing the goals of equalizing numbers of people in each council...
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BART to strike at midnight
In an unexpected twist, BART unions will be going on strike at midnight after federal mediators announced they are returning to Washington after failing to help broker a deal.
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BART negotiations disintegrate into strike threat
Almost a full week of negotiations unraveled Thursday afternoon when union workers and BART management came to a stalemate and talks ended in the threat of a strike set to commence at midnight Thursday.
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Oakland 3D printing company takes production industry by storm
At Oakland's Fathom Studio, tech-savvy workers need only to follow one simple direction before finished products from dolls to prosthetic limbs materialize in 3D: “Just click print.”
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