A man who stands up for Oakland by saying "Oakland. California. Here life is worthless.“

There's a man in Oakland who literally follows crime scenes and other insults to his home town and shares it with the world; not to embarass his city but advocate for its resurrection. The Spanish words, spring out online, ““Oakland, California, donde la vida no vale nada. “Oakland, California, donde la vida no vale nada." In English:  Oakland. California. Here life is worthless. “

Reps. Lee, Swalwell celebrate $30m in federal funds for multimodal project

U.S. Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and Eric Swalwell, D-Castro Valley, celebrated on Friday after receiving $30 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to install about 10 miles of street improvements along the project corridor, which will span from Lake Merritt to Bayfair.   

Third Boogaloo Boy sentenced to life for court security guard's murder

A third member of the Boogaloo Boys, a far-right antigovernment extremist group, has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2020 murder of a federal court security officer in Oakland and the attempted murder of another, the U.S. Attorney for Northern California said Friday.

Pamela Price recall organizers welcome manual count of signatures

Organizers of a campaign to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said Friday that they welcome a manual count of signatures gathered to get the recall on the ballot after the county registrar of voters announced that a random sampling of the signatures did not meet its criteria.