The abduction of a six year-old boy from Oakland in 1951 has been solved 73 years on - and incredibly, there's a happy ending. Luis Armando Albino has been found safe and well thanks to a dedicated niece who never gave up hope of tracking down her long-lost relative. Albino, who's now 79, was abducted by a woman on February …
A woman and her baby head to West Oakland on a BART train. A thousand residents of West Oakland will be receiving prepaid debit cards with $320 on them for use on public transit. After a 2021 pilot program showed potential benefits of “universal basic mobility” in Oakland, the city has doubled down on incentives for public transit. A thousand …
Four decades ago, during the heyday of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in West Oakland, hundreds would show up for worship on Sundays. “Even if our human societies don’t act as if we’re all beloved by God.” Over the years, membership at Bethlehem Lutheran has dwindled as residents have left Oakland, many of them pushed out to more affordable cities like Vacaville …
Major League Baseball on Tuesday flexed what they believed to be leverage by leaking their message to the A’s to start looking for a new home. But MLB and the A’s are trying to capitalize on the recent departures of the Raiders and Warriors and create some urgency to push their Howard Terminal stadium plan through. But as long as …
