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Congresswoman Barbara Lee launches campaign for U.S. Senate
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) Saturday held the formal kick-off rally for her candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat. (2-25-23)
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U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) Saturday held the formal kick-off rally for her candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat. (2-25-23)
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra was at Wilma Chan Highland Hospital in Oakland on Friday morning to hear how Alameda County has been at treating, preventing and reversing disease by prescribing more vegetables, altering patients behavior and training providers.
In a letter Friday, the media companies argue the footage should be made available to other media groups.
The city of Oakland and Caltrans received $680,000 in federal money to study ways to reconnect areas divided by I-980, state transportation officials and a legislator said Wednesday.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on Thursday spoke out in defense of her recent decision to fire LeRonne Armstrong as the city's police chief, just hours before he officially filed an appeal.
A San Rafael assemblyman's bill would make it illegal to sell cigarettes and other tobacco products to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that California spotted owls that have their habitats in coastal and Southern California be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The bill is still sitting in the Democratic-controlled Legislature three months later, with no details on how much the penalty would be or when oil companies would have to pay it.
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin announced Wednesday he will be giving up his seat as mayor to run for a seat in the California state Senate.
One of those attacks occurred last December, with the deliberate shooting of power substations in Moore County, N.C., leaving 45,000 people in the dark for several days.
East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee has officially joined the crowded field of Democratic candidates seeking to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein when she retires in 2024.
In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet, the Supreme Court seemed unlikely Tuesday to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter in a terrorist attack.
Recent years have seen record West Coast whale deaths, with the notable exception of 2020, when the pandemic all but stopped international shipping.
Democratic governors in 20 states are launching a network intended to strengthen abortion access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision nixing a woman's constitutional right to end a pregnancy and instead shifting regulatory powers over the procedure to state governments.
A San Francisco firefighters union is raising public safety concerns about new concrete barriers put up to deter sex work on Capp Street.
