Former San Leandro Councilmember Bryan Azevedo leaving Oakland's federal courthouse on Feb. 11, 2026. Credit: Eli Wolfe / The Oaklandside. Oaklanders deserve to know the truth. So we follow the money ...

This article was produced in partnership with the non-profit newsroom Type Investigations. On August 28, Gov. Gavin Newsom sat down behind a desk against a backdrop of American and California state ...

Crowds in Oakland joined demonstrators across the country on Sunday to protest the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign and the fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs ...

Oakland police will continue using a mass surveillance network of nearly 300 cameras to track vehicles throughout the city under a $2.25 million contract approved by the City Council on Tuesday. The ...

When President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1 — the “Big Beautiful Bill” — in July, he touted it as one of the largest tax cuts in U.S. history. The law would restore “fiscal sanity,” he said, by ...

This post was updated with remarks from a press conference this morning at City Hall. This morning, the city of Oakland announced that it had sold all $334 million of the municipal bonds it issued ...

Homeowners and developers alike say bureaucratic barriers have made it difficult to build and live affordably in Oakland. Credit: Amir Aziz/The Oaklandside Oaklanders deserve to know the truth. So we ...

Yesterday, Pamela Price — yes, the recently recalled district attorney — announced she’s running for office again. And today, SEIU Local 1021, the labor union representing roughly 2,000 city workers, ...

The Oakland Police Department’s push to sign a new deal with a Georgia-based company to operate surveillance cameras on local roads flopped on Tuesday after the City Council’s Public Safety Committee ...

The political giving of the Duong family has become the subject of increasing scrutiny following the FBI raids of David Duong and his son Andy Duong’s homes two weeks ago. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s ...

Oaklanders deserve to know the truth. So we follow the money and investigate the powerful. Will you chip in to help hold leaders accountable to the people they serve? According to three eyewitnesses ...

A federal officer at the entrance of Coast Guard Island blasts a riot control agent, likely a pepper-spray round, into the crowd of protesters, hitting Jorge Bautista, a pastor with the United Church ...