The California city has evolved over and over but not always for the better. A new mayor promises to be a uniter, but that's ...

Some foothills neighborhoods like Dimond and Laurel were split with ... There’s so much gentrification in West Oakland that ...

Residents weighed in on Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins’ $4.2 billion spending proposal at the first of many community forums.

Nuclear families are no longer the norm in the United States. Could community living arrangements help us find the connection and support we crave?

Mother’s Day is an occasion on which we celebrate the love, nurture, selfless sacrifice and powerful impact of mothers ...

The increase in distressed borrowers walking away from their debts led the news this week, as experts at a debt conference in San Francisco said they’re seeing one in three hand ...

With no major changes to their home and many homes in the neighborhood in ill repair being valued similarly ... compared the ...

The Bloomington City Council endorsed the sale of property at 104 E. Oakland Ave. that would move Home Sweet Home Ministries' homeless shelter project forward.

We've decided to gather the most talked-about stories from the past week all in one place that you can check out during your ...

Critical Condition’ draws on studies ... that document how extreme stress faced by Black American communities leads to worse ...

He told me that he’d assumed a level of fatalism early on, having witnessed lives lost to violence and to poor health care. Growing up in Oakland ... Coogler’s neighborhood, a few miles ...