It also represents, together with 1900 Broadway, a huge bet on downtown Oakland’s ability to bounce back after the pandemic. Neil Gonzales is a freelance writer based in Redwood City.

Developer Dan Gilbert and Bedrock proposed that since the RenCen is sort of separated from the downtown area, there needs to ...

BRENTWOOD — Despite privacy concerns, the Brentwood City Council unanimously approved last week the purchase of 32 automatic ...

It’s time for Oakland’s elected officials to end their silence and address the city’s antisemitism problem ... In early December 2023, three workers at a downtown Oakland cafe barred ...

INTERACTIVE: Take a look at the ABC7 Neighborhood Safety Tracker The report says, while it's important to develop all areas of Oakland economically, downtown remains the city's vital core.

The similarities between Lee and the late Mayor Ron Dellums, her longtime mentor, are plentiful. But the comparison carries ...

OAKLAND — On a recent Saturday in March, several hundred people filled the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland for a quintessential party to honor longtime Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee. Oakland’s ...

Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reveal which Bay Area roads had the most traffic deaths in the ...

Trying to fight back. By no stretch of the imagination is it back, nor is it at all certain that it won't fall into ...

During this same timeframe last year, Oakland was probing its fourteenth homicide of the year. At the end of 2024, the City of Oakland ... Those with any videos or photos that could assist with ...

In another blow to Oakland’s tourism industry, the largest hotel in the city’s downtown is defaulting on its loan. The owners of the Oakland Marriott City Center, a 500-room hotel on Broadway ...