With the A's stuck between Oakland and Vegas, 2025 creates unique MLB betting angles—from spoiler wins to quiet home games and valuable player props.

In many ways, predictions about the future of the East Bay’s restaurant industry sound totally dystopian: robots, ghost kitchens, and the slow death of the traditional restaurant as we know it ...

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 ...

I got kicked out of a public, federal immigration court hearing yesterday because I’m a newspaper reporter. And it wasn’t the judge who wanted me to leave. It was the Immigration and Customs ...

Here’s the pitch: Oakland mayor Jerry Brown wants to build housing in Oakland’s uptown area; City Manager Robert Bobb wants to build a new ballpark for the A’s.

When Coach Blake Chong cut Lynn Rubin's son from the varsity basketball team at Union City's Logan High School, he found himself with a different kind of court date.

The play’s energy stems from a meeting of Picasso and Einstein, both young and on the verge of the discoveries that will make them famous. They drink, they argue, they chase skirts; all the ...

An outline of breweries, wineries, restaurants. Cooking tips, dining reviews, sustainable food sources, interviews with local chefs.

The radio station is little more than a back office tucked into a strip mall on the outskirts of Sacramento, just past a lonely Home Depot and two different Starbucks drive-throughs. Filled with ...

The Exotic Erotic Ball may be known for having “nothing to hide,” but its producers get a little cagey when the talk turns to their event’s history. For the past three years, the venerable ...

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A good pet-food store is all in the details, and for one thing, Animal Farm has better-quality rabbit food than we’ve been able to find anywhere else.