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Making the Dubai bars is a three-day process. The whole pistachios spend 24 hours in a stone grinder or melanger. While many ...

The half-acre lot in East Oakland’s Sobrante Park was once a symbol of violence. It will reopen next summer with walking paths, play areas, and a new lawn.

A $30 million grant will transform Martin Luther King Jr. Way with a cycle track, lights, traffic islands, and bulbouts.

The state grant is the 11th for Oakland in five years through California’s Homekey program. It will support 109 affordable ...

Nelson Alegria is tasked with updating school safety protocols, decreasing schools’ reliance on police, and making sure ...

Mayor Barbara Lee announced a celebration in October for the city’s first title-winning pro team in seven years.

Oakland’s contracting law bans business with companies that help federal immigration agencies. Does it prevent the city from ...

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A decision by the California Supreme Court effectively ends 10 years of lawsuits over the construction of a fossil fuel depot ...

Abandoned boats, corrosive chemicals, and mountains of trash clog the estuary's waters. And no one’s owning the cleanup.

The Sept. 15 arrest of a man inside the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse exposed the weakness of state and local efforts to make ...