.Seven Days

In a time when the U.S is facing a reckoning over its racist past, so too are cities like San Leandro, where an ugly history of housing red-lining once created a whites-only suburban enclave in the East...

You don't want to get arrested for drinking in public, right?" a Fremont police officer asked Fremont mayoral candidate Justin Sha outside a black-tie fundraiser for the Washington Hospital Healthcare Foundation last October. Video of Sha's interaction with...

Oakland Police raided the Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants, a "magic mushroom club," and seized $200,000 in cash, cannabis and mushrooms, Vice reports. The Oakland City Council recently lowered the enforcement of laws prohibiting the use...

A‌group of Oakland progressives led by former Oakland mayoral candidate Pamela Price wants the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee to oppose the city's proposed sale of its half of the Coliseum complex to the Oakland Athletics. Pushback by...

Six candidates will vie for Oakland District 3 Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney's position this fall. Five seek to replace retiring District 7 Councilmember Larry Reid, and restaurateur Derreck Johnson challenges at-large Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan's reelection. In addition,...

Oakland At-Large Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan is one of the city's most well-known politicians, and seemingly one of its more popular. But her re-election campaign received a major wake-up call after one of her challengers, Oakland restaurateur Derreck...

After initially keeping the coronavirus at bay, the number of new cases in Alameda County has skyrocketed to more than 11,000 over the past two months, and it may get worse, according to the county's interim public...