This Saturday, Oakland dog hotel Citizen Canine is hosting an outdoor dog-centric festival to raise money for East Bay animal rescue organizations. Tons of local vendors will be there, supplying attendees with treats for both humans and their doggy companions.

Valentine’s Day weekend is the time to go out with your honey–or go out to find a new honey! Either way, Oakland has so many things to do: comedy, jazz, even blacksmithing!

Many Oakland businesses are using social media to reach their fans and customers. Here are a few tips to put the cherry on top of that social media sundae.

Events for the Israeli Consulate’s tribute to Black History Month include screenings of two critically-acclaimed films about Ethiopian immigration and communities in Israel, and theater productions by renowned Ethiopian-Israeli performers

Two months after Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts announced an FBI investigation into the November police killing of Derrick Jones, the Alameda County District Attorney told Jones’ family that she had decided against prosecuting the officers who shot Jones eight times as he was running away, unarmed. According to Jones’ family at Tuesday’s Oakland City [...]

On Tuesday, February 8, at 9 am, at 2619 Martin Luther King Jr Way in Oakland, dozens of day laborers and their supporters will picket the private home of a Bay Area contractor who won’t pay the over $6000 owed to the worker under a State Labor Commissioner Order and Award.

Team-Up for Youth works to eliminate disparities in access to high-quality after-school sports programs for young people living in poverty and communities of color to increase and improve their physical, emotional and social health.

In honor of the Lunar New Year and Oakland Chinatown, Bennett Hall has unearthed a historic photo of Chinese immigrants marching in an Oakland parade a year following the Big Earthquake of 1906.

On Saturday, January 22nd, 20 year old Raheim Brown was shot and killed by the Oakland Unified School District’s police force outside Skyline High School. Police statements and media have reported that Brown tried to stab an officer with a screwdriver, and a second officer shot Brown five times—once in each arm, once in his [...]

Clearly, our new mayor is not afraid to go toe-to-toe with her predecessor, Jerry Brown. Time will tell if her appeal produces the intended consequences of saving Oakland’s efforts to redevelop and improve our city. Gov. Brown wants to balance the State budget by eliminating statewide Redevelopment agencies. Mayor Quan believes that killing Redevelopment will cause serious and permanent economic damage at the local level. Read her statement in support of saving Oakland’s Redevelopment projects.