Oakland

The Latinx community in California is being disproportionately affected by the coronavirus. East Oakland is particularly bad. City officials said cases here are three to four times higher than the rest of Alameda County.

American Airlines has quietly ceased operations out of Oakland Airport and warned of possible furloughs of hundreds of workers at San Francisco International Airport.

The Oakland NAACP strongly condemned a teacher protest, that would have stopped by the home of Superintendent Dr.

Although the district announced tentative plans on July 10 for distance learning and a phased approach to returning to classroom instruction, it alerted parents on Wednesday that it could not release "clear detailed plans to reopen schools" until it establishes agreements with each of its unions.

The outage, which according to PG&E was reported at 5:20 p.m. Sunday, is affecting an area west of Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland. 

Bay Area hair salon owners have begun organizing in their fight to be allowed to re-open indoors.

While the increase was a good sign, the June total was still only 21 percent of a year ago, according to airport officials. The lowest total so far during the pandemic has been in April, when the airport saw only 4 percent of its normal number of passengers.

Oakland Unified is working to reform an online program designed to help failing students following a scathing civil grand jury report last month that accused the district of awarding some students unearned grades and allowing unqualified students to graduate at one of its high schools.

Lanes in both directions of I-980 in downtown Oakland have reopened after being blocked for about two hours Thursday evening, California Highway Patrol said.

Oakland leaders on Tuesday set a maximum allowed fee that restaurants must pay to services such as Uber Eats that deliver their food to locations in the city, a councilman said. 

Three food delivery services said the cap will hurt restaurants. 

Anti Police-Terror Project, an Oakland based activist group, was awarded a preliminary injunction against the City of Oakland in how its police department can use less-than lethal weapons, including tear gas, in crowd-control situations. 

The zoo's funds have been drained during the coronavirus shut down, and officials say the reduced ticket revenue still won't be enough to cover costs.

Oakland homicide investigators are asking the public for help in the killing of a 25-year-old homeless man earlier this month in West Oakland.

Oakland's own Zendaya received her first-ever Emmy nomination on Tuesday, being named among the six top performers in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Civil rights attorney Jim Chanin noted that the improvements were "very slight," but at least the police department seemed to be moving in the right direction.

An effort is underway in Pinole to create a special memorial to honor David Patrick Underwood, the federal officer killed while on duty in Oakland in May.