Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft appears to be preparing a challenge to Mayor Trish Herrera Spencer in the November election.

Alameda County’s Write to Read program has surprising results for incarcerated male teens at Camp Sweeney.

The 2018 election is shaping up as a fight between two of the city’s most influential groups.

The Alameda City Council’s progressive, pro-growth majority has rejected four of the mayor’s planning board choices this year.

Retailer West Elm is teaming up with Signature Development Group to build a new Uptown hotel that celebrates Oakland’s resurgence.

A self-described bookstore evangelistic zealot, an Alamedan convinces booklovers to come together to re-launch an indie bookstore.

Paideia helped turn Oakland Tech into the best public high school in the city. But some teachers and parents are worried about the future of the acclaimed humanities program.

Alameda names not one but two poet laureates, thinking two bards just may be better than one.

Slogans like Black Lives Matter and Everyone Belongs here pop up on the pint-sized doors.

How African Americans were blocked from living in most East Bay neighborhoods: an excerpt from the 2017 book "The Color of Law."