East Bay (California)

East Bay (California)

"There are too many cliffs that our young people are prone to falling off," Aboelata said during a groundbreaking event on Wednesday. "They leave the school setting, they graduate, or they become disconnected from school. They drop out. At 18, they fall off with certain benefits, or at 21 or 24. Because of the way our resources and systems are set up, young people fall through the gaps."

At 78 years old, Ranii was used to competing against younger opponents, but this one was especially boyish; no older than 12 by her estimation. If she leaned on him a little harder, she thought she could leave with a clean sweep. But after dropping the first two sets, the boy began to listen to advice from his parents, who had coached him throughout the match.

The city of Oakland has hired the former at-large councilmember as a project manager in the city administrator's office. Kaplan started on Sept. 29 as an exempt limited duration employee and her job is to perform policy research with an emphasis on illegal dumping and blight, city spokesperson Sean Maher told The Oaklandside. It's unclear how long she will be in this role.

Stuck in contentious negotiations over new contracts, two West Contra Costa Unified School District unions have overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking if district leadership cannot adequately meet their demands. More than 95% of members represented by the United Teachers of Richmond and Teamsters Local 856 separately voted recently to authorize strikes. That means about 3,000 district employees, from teachers and education specialists to maintenance and food service workers, could walk off the job if deals aren't struck in the coming months.

"It was surreal," Raifman recalled to SFGATE. "It's something I've certainly never seen. And I mean, most people will never see it. We all collectively did a double take."

The California Highway Patrol says a suspect who had committed a vehicle code violation - failing to display license plates - and then fled officers was chased throughout Oakland on Tuesday night, leading to a dangerous collision on a busy arterial street. The suspect, identified by an Oakland police officer's radio broadcast only as a Hispanic male, sped away from the intersection of 73rd Avenue and San Leandro Street, at the Coliseum BART station,

Editor's note: Nosh covers food and restaurant news across the East Bay, and each week we publish one article covering all the restaurant openings and one article covering closings. Have a tip for Nosh? Submit it here. After serving Alameda for 22 years, Feel Good Bakery is hanging up its chef's hat for good. The bakery's last day of business will be Oct. 31, and pre-orders and online orders are no longer being accepted.

Classy waterfront dining has returned at Eve's Waterfront. After a kitchen fire prompted the restaurant to close for several years, Eve's will celebrate its grand reopening this weekend. The restaurant is rolling out new brunch offerings - including a raffle that promises to award the winner comped brunch for an entire year - plus indulgent dishes like Moroccan wings, smoked trout salad and crème brûlée French toast. Eve's Waterfront, 15 Embarcadero West, Oakland

An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers went on strike Tuesday to demand better wages and staffing from the Oakland-based health care giant. Organizers say the five-day strike across 500 medical centers and offices in California, Hawaii and Oregon is the largest in the 50-year history of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals. The strike could grow to include 46,000 people.

The city of Oakland's Department of Violence Prevention is working with the Urban Peace Institute, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, to create a training program for violence interrupters, unarmed civilians who de-escalate situations and prevent retaliation after shootings and other forms of violence. The first training cohort will launch in 2027. Oakland's violence intervention academy will be modeled after Urban Peace Institute's peace academy, which was established in 2008.

One member of the fire crew died, crushed by the overturned truck, and seven firefighters were injured, along with scores of passengers on the streetcar. An old tree in front of the playground was demolished but probably prevented the car from plowing full into the playground yard where many children were playing, the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported. A Berkeley woman, Cecelia Gollum, was credited with saving children in the playground by blowing her whistle when she saw the crash occurring.

Matthew John, 21, had been charged with fatally shooting 22-year-old Joshua Hopkins on Feb. 22, 2023, as the two argued on the 2200 block of Seminary Avenue. In September, prosecutors dropped the murder case, but John isn't completely out of hot water - he pleaded no contest to robbing a Berkeley jewelry store with two others in a $98,000 takeover heist, and will serve three years in state prison, court records show.

This morning, Lee's office sent a heads-up to reporters about Tuesday's 3:30 p.m. speech at City Hall. Atop the press release was an image of the seat of Oakland's government - one clearly generated by artificial intelligence. Immediately, journalists in our newsroom, who've collectively spent hundreds of hours at meetings and interviews in City Hall, noticed some key elements missing and fabricated in the image of the Beaux-Arts building.

MACRO is a team of trained, unarmed civilians who respond to non-emergency 911 calls, providing assistance to residents in the form of medical and mental health support and connections to social services. The program is intended to reduce the use of police, freeing up officers to address violent crime and more serious emergencies.

Robinhood Markets Inc. is exploring an expansion of its prediction markets product to countries outside of the US, a move that would broaden the reach of the already fast-growing and often controversial industry. The brokerage has been speaking to overseas regulators like the UK's Financial Conduct Authority about how it might offer prediction markets locally, as demand for the space continues to grow.

STANFORD Ben Gulbranson's first two games at Stanford could hardly have been worse a combined 251 yards on 62 attempts, with three interceptions and no touchdowns. But the Oregon State transfer turned a corner just in time to lead the Cardinal to victory in the Bill Walsh Legacy Game. Gulbranson threw for 444 yards, the third-most in Stanford history, and engineered an 80-yard touchdown drive in the final two minutes as the Cardinal beat San Jose State 30-29 Saturday night at Stanford Stadium.

Three years after Oakland announced a plan to purchase electric bikes for a pilot rental program, the new bikes are finally available for rent. In a press conference yesterday, Mayor Barbara Lee spoke of her excitement about the program. She was flanked by other community leaders, including councilmember Noel Gallo, whose district includes Fruitvale; at-large councilmember Rowena Brown; and Justin Hu-Nguyen, a co-executive director of the advocacy group Bike East Bay.

If an earthquake strikes, experts say to drop to your hands and knees, and either crawl under a cover like a table or against a wall away from windows. Grab hold of something sturdy and stay crouched down, covering your head with your arms in case anything falls on you. The U.S. government's Ready website has more detailed instructions, including for people using canes, walkers, or wheelchairs.

"Initially, I was just documenting her story for myself. At a certain point, I realized it was a story that should be made public,"

On Thursday, the Oakland City Council's rules committee will decide whether to schedule a vote on whether or not Allied should get the $45 million deal. But Allied is a big company and one of its subsidiary firms has contracts with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE. That could be a problem because city rules ban Oakland from doing business with companies that provide ICE and the Border Patrol with "services or goods for data collection or immigration detention facilities."