Northgate nights heat up: A rising bar hub offers drinks, food and fun within walking distance in Oakland's Northgate-Waverly District.

La Loulou welcomes all to an apéritif dinner—where patrons drink in 'la vie en rose' and rosé in its Art Nouveau wine bar on Piedmont Avenue.

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Those who love animals and a nice, locally brewed IPA are in for an annual treat as Berkeley Humane (BH) throws its “Pints for Paws” (PFP) fundraiser for the 11th year. Vickie Eiges, BH’s ...

Imagine the flooded streets and extreme storms of this past winter — and then flash-forward 50 more years. If you live in West Oakland, especially in the community of Dogtown, a storm could ...

Javier Arango can still feel the bullet lodged against his spine. It paralyzed him instantly and is a reminder of the war he’s managed to survive. But this battle wasn’t waged in Kandahar or ...

Add all this up, multiply it by every patient seen every day, and it’s a bit mind-boggling. “The amount of waste is unreal — it would turn your stomach,” said Djavaherian, who works at ...

To Oakland’s fire inspectors, the Ghost Ship warehouse really was invisible: The extremely dangerous building sailed unseen for years, evading fire-safety inspectors until it burned on Friday ...

Daniel Gahr and Shirin Raza are co-owners of Bar Shiru and, since last fall, Gold Palm, which opened in Palmetto’s former space. Raza is the general manager of both establishments, and Gahr is ...

The best place to act on Brock’s challenge is at the university where it all began. Brock writes that he came to Berkeley in 1981 partly to anger his conservative Irish-Catholic dad, whom he ...

Oakland is once again in an uproar over a fatal police shooting of an African-American man. In 2007, it was Gary King Jr. In 2009, it was Oscar Grant. In 2010, it was Derrick Jones. In 2011, it ...

The story of how Oakland’s Koreatown came to be starts with Hahn, who has the kind of immigrant success story that’s almost cliché. He arrived in the United States in 1966 as a member of the ...