One step into West Oakland’s Hyphy Burger and it’s clear the name isn’t just for show. Young diners crowd around tables, laughing loudly as they wait for their order numbers to be called ...

Javier Arango can still feel the bullet lodged against his spine. It paralyzed him instantly and is a reminder of the war he’s managed to survive. But this battle wasn’t waged in Kandahar or ...

I got kicked out of a public, federal immigration court hearing yesterday because I’m a newspaper reporter. And it wasn’t the judge who wanted me to leave. It was the Immigration and Customs ...

Imagine the flooded streets and extreme storms of this past winter — and then flash-forward 50 more years. If you live in West Oakland, especially in the community of Dogtown, a storm could ...

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Hells Angel Edward Proudfoot's house was searched, his likeness broadcast on the evening news, and his dog shot. He says he'd like to know why.

Hayward is in the early stages of a proposal to begin looking at the feasibility of annexing nearby unincorporated Cherryland and its roughly 15,000 residents, according to sources. The plan is ...

Bollinger Canyon Road is lined with miles of white rose bushes. This month they’re in bloom. There’s something funereal about them, as if they indicate the way to a mausoleum entrance rather ...

Skateboard wheels grind down a wooden half pipe at all hours of the day in Josh Matlock‘s living room. He lives in a North Oakland warehouse with four other guys and a rotating cast of squatters ...

When Coach Blake Chong cut Lynn Rubin's son from the varsity basketball team at Union City's Logan High School, he found himself with a different kind of court date.

At Walnut Creek’s Nordstrom store, nanotechnology is taking over Men’s Sportswear. Not the minuscule, creepy-crawly robots science fiction writers imagine will someday learn to self-replicate ...

These days, nail art has no limits. In Alice Kincade’s experience, anyway. The Oakland-based nail artist began her work in her dorm room at UCLA in 2019 while recovering from a car accident.