The Latest Breaking News from Oakland

Carl Weathers’s acting career fueled by a comment from John Madden

Before he was Apollo Creed or Greef Karga, he was a Raiders linebacker. Now more than 50 years later, Weathers revisits his end in football and start in Hollywood.

Sports Illustrated · May 19, 2023

Funding gap of $75M holding up A’s stadium deal

LAS VEGAS — The Oakland Athletics are negotiating with Clark County to bridge a $75 million dollar gap in public financing for the proposed $1.5 billion MLB Las Vegas ballpark.

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2023

Tupac Shakur Way: California city to name street after iconic rapper

Shakur lived in Oakland in the early 1990s and has other connections to the city, including filming a video there

The Guardian - US · May 19, 2023

Oakland A’s Reach Agreement to Build $1.5 Billion Stadium on Las Vegas Strip

The team’s eventual move to the desert cleared a major hurdle Tuesday.

Sports Illustrated · May 9, 2023

Oakland 2nd California diocese to seek bankruptcy over abuse

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has filed for bankruptcy due to hundreds of new child sex abuse claims, becoming the second diocese in California to do so

The Independent UK · May 8, 2023

A California panel has called for billions in reparations for descendants of slaves

California's reparations task force has voted to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.

WEKU · May 7, 2023

Once a refuge, Oakland homeless camp is dismantled: ‘My world was ripped to pieces’

The city has evicted all the residents from Wood Street amid its worst housing and homelessness crisis ever

The Guardian - US · May 5, 2023

Oakland teachers union on strike; schools open without them

More than 3,000 teachers and other workers in the Oakland Unified School District are on strike after claiming the district failed to bargain in good faith on a new contract

The Independent UK · May 4, 2023

MLB fans crushed A’s ownership after attendance dropped to 2,500 in the saddest scene at Oakland Coliseum

Oakland deserves so much better.

USA Today Sports Media Group · May 3, 2023

More people are getting away with murder. Unsolved killings reach a record high

U.S. murder clearance or solve rates have hit an all-time low. Experts say mutual mistrust between police and some communities is creating a vicious cycle where unsolved killings breed more mistrust.

WEKU · Apr 30, 2023