Oakland School District Officials Grapple With Budget Shortfall, Declining Enrollment
Oakland Unified School District is looking at consolidating, reconfiguring or even closing some schools to bridge expected budget deficits in the coming years.
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Oakland Unified School District is looking at consolidating, reconfiguring or even closing some schools to bridge expected budget deficits in the coming years.
On Thursday morning, Bay Area commuters were able to take advantage of a new ferry service traveling between Richmond and San Francisco for the first time.
Prosecutors say owners of mango-themed Chinese-Malaysian restaurants in the Bay Area must pay their workers more than $1 million in wage-theft restitution.
The Concord City Council on Tuesday delayed a deal involving 310 market-rate apartments downtown, just blocks from the BART station, after asking the developer to come back with a commitment to hiring local, organized labor.
A 19-year veteran of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District has been arrested on suspicion of drug possession, prompting a sweep of all drug stock on emergency vehicles.
College Park High students threatened to walk out on Wednesday as the school implemented a system in which it tickets tardy students.
Starting Thursday morning, Bay Area residents will be able to take advantage of a new commuter ferry service traveling between Richmond and San Francisco.
Police on Wednesday were continuing their search for a suspect in the shooting death of a 17-year-old Carlmont High School student late Monday night in Belmont.
An arrest has been made in last week's hit-and-run crash that left a teenage boy hospitalized with critical injuries after his bicycle was struck and he was dragged for blocks.
Councilman Dan Kalb said on Tuesday that he and his former chief of staff were among the good Samaritans who helped rescue a woman who was stabbed near City Hall last week.
A tree weakened by last weekend's stormy weather toppled onto State Route 13 in the Oakland Hills early Tuesday, triggering three separate accidents, heavily damaging the vehicles involved.
Prosecutors were trying to determine whether to bring charges in a bizarre case that start on an Oakland hiking trail and ended with a nasty bite, not from a dog, but from a human.
Veteran councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan was elected president of the Oakland City Council at the council's first meeting of the year on Monday.
Book lovers in the East Bay are getting a big break. Contra Costa County has ended the long-time tradition of imposing fines for overdue books at its 26 public libraries. All past fines have been forgiven.
Mother Nature delivered a brief reprieve Monday from a series of storms lined up across the Pacific, leaving behind downed power lines, flooded roadways and claiming the life of a 32-year-old Novato man on the UC Berkeley campus.
