These small urban farms across the city are making fresh produce more accessible and teaching Oaklanders how to grow their own food.
Category: Health & Environment
Is this recyclable? Oakland tries to educate residents through trash bin audits
Oakland is taking an extra look at some recycling, trash, and compost bins. Your bin could be next.
Parents fear new gender rules could undermine East Bay Catholic schools’ LGBTQ+ friendly reputations
In a heated meeting with the Oakland Diocese, parents at St. Joseph’s urged school leaders not to pursue repressive guidance on gender and sexuality.
Proposed bike and pedestrian bridge would connect downtown Oakland to Alameda
Advocates say the span will link key East Bay population centers and reduce car traffic. Opponents say it’s unnecessary and costs too much at $200 million.
Oakland urges PG&E to bury power lines in fire-prone hills
The utility giant is burying thousands of miles of power lines—but not in Oakland.
Some LGBTQ+ students felt they belonged at St. Joe’s. Then came talk of new ‘guidance’
With rumors of a new potentially restrictive policy on addressing queer and trans students at school, students are feeling concern and stress ahead of the upcoming school year.
Oakland Catholic schools could receive new ‘guidance’ on gender identity
Harmful new policies are targeting LGBTQ+ students across the country. Students, parents, and staff at St. Joseph’s and other local Catholic schools fear they could be next.
Joaquin Miller Park is a tinderbox. Volunteers warn of danger
The Friends of Joaquin Miller Park group wants Oakland to trim invasive, dead, and hazardous trees to prevent a massive firestorm.
Native oysters need help coming back to the Bay. Chickens are pitching in
Only 1% of native oysters still exist along Oakland and Berkeley’s shorelines, but efforts are underway to restore them for a healthy bay.
Doctors strike at East Bay clinics serving low-income, homeless patients
Healthcare workers at LifeLong Medical Care are calling attention to working conditions at Oakland and Berkeley clinics.
AC Transit and BART survive ‘fiscal cliff’—for now—with $5 billion state budget agreement
East Bay transit advocates warned of a “death spiral” for bus and train operators if Gov. Newsom didn’t adjust funds in the state budget.
Those loud popping noises you just heard—fireworks or gunshots?
How to tell the difference between the sounds of gunfire and holiday explosives in Oakland this Fourth of July.
Good news for East Bay public transit: state funds for BART and AC Transit could be restored
The governor’s draft budget would have contributed to the “death” of Bay Area transit. A vote today offers new hope—but it’s not a slam dunk.
Oakmore’s Leimert Bridge could collapse in the next big earthquake. It’s finally being fixed
Concerns have lingered since the Loma Prieta quake in 1989. Now, a long-awaited $7.4 million retrofit will shore up the historic Oakland hills span.
After a wet winter, Bay Area goats have a lot on their plates
Thousands of goats who help reduce wildfire risk in Berkeley, Oakland and beyond are having to chew through thicker vegetation this spring.
Report: Oakland traffic collisions are a ‘public safety epidemic’
The city described its efforts to stop traffic violence in a sweeping report this week.
Are COVID-19 tests, vaccines, and treatments still free?
The federal public emergency ended May 11, but most coverage will continue in the Bay Area and throughout the state through Nov. 12.
Alameda Health System’s COVID-19 memory archive shares stories of frontline workers
Launched the day the national COVID emergency was lifted, the multimedia project chronicles the experiences of health care workers during the pandemic’s toughest days.
How to get that hazardous waste out of the house, and away from kids and pets, without polluting
Alameda County has four drop-off locations for household chemicals, along with collection days at Golden Gate Fields in Albany.
Winter storms test East Bay’s progress in repairing leaky sewage lines
In response to a lawsuit, Berkeley, Oakland, EBMUD and others agreed to rehab wastewater systems so less sewage lands in the bay. Tested by heavy rains and pipe-clogging pandemic wipes, leaks continue but work is on track.