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11/27/2025

Lake Merritt’s Eastshore Park will be filled to the brim Thursday morning for what’s become a tradition for many: the Oakland Turkey Trot. 🦃 👟 🏅

In its ninth year, the trot brings “The Town’s” community together to run or walk five kilometers (3.1 miles) around the lake. It’s a particularly big draw for youth and families.

Lake Merritt’s Eastshore Park will be filled to the brim Thursday morning for what’s become a tradition for many: the Oakland Turkey Trot.   In its

11/26/2025

Local leaders and community organizers convened on Monday morning to denounce allegations of women being forced to strip naked by male officers at San Francisco County Jail while wearing body cameras.

The coalition alleged that over 20 women were strip-searched as a group on May 22, and while they were patted down by female officers, they were in view of laughing male officers who had their body cameras on.

Read: https://localnewsmatters.org/2025/11/25/activists-allege-strip-searches-of-women-at-sf-county-jail-violated-their-privacy-rights/

11/26/2025

Major public transit agencies across the released their schedules this week ahead of the travel season as millions of people are expected to hit the road to visit loved ones across the country.

Major public transit agencies across the Bay Area released their schedules this week ahead of the holiday travel season as millions of people are expected

11/26/2025

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11/26/2025

Author Julia Park Tracey has written in libraries, newsrooms and coffee shops — but nothing inspires her like a long train ride. 🚆✍️

In her latest essay, she shares how the rhythm of the rails, the people she met along the way and one NaNoWriMo challenge helped her uncover a decade-old manuscript, now transformed into her newly released novel "Whoa, Nelly!" 📖

https://localnewsmatters.org/2025/10/31/essay-the-pleasure-benefits-of-writing-on-the-train/

I used to love to go to Subway to get myself a cheap sandwich, where I could admire the funky wallpaper—orange and yellow and black, with old-timey subway

11/25/2025

A new West Oakland apartment complex was celebrated by local officials and community members last week with the hope that it will help provide affordable housing for low-income individuals and people transitioning from homelessness.

A NEW WEST OAKLAND apartment complex was celebrated by local officials and community members last week with the hope that it will help provide affordable

11/25/2025

An annual report by the city's Police Accountability Board showed that Black residents represent a disproportionate number of police stops — roughly one out of three — despite making up barely 7% of Berkeley's population.

Berkeley City Council members debated racial disparities found in the city’s annual Police Accountability Board report at a special meeting last week. The

11/25/2025

The Bay Area’s three largest airports urge passengers to arrive with plenty of time for long lines and unexpected delays since the season represents one of the busiest travel times through airports.

After the federal government shutdown ended last week, airports are prepared to return to normal service ahead of the holiday season, but Bay Area

11/24/2025

“Doing environmental work, I mean, it would be so easy to get grim. You know, everything feels kind of hopeless and dismal,” said Habitat Potential's founder Josiah Clark at the end of a long work day clearing eucalyptus leaves from a wooded area on Yerba Buena Island.

“But I think that there’s enough beauty and productivity and robustness in nature to kind of carry the story through.”

YERBA BUENA ISLAND, the tall rock where the Bay Bridge ducks into a tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland, is home to one of the Bay Area’s most

11/24/2025

’Tis the season for finding fur-ever homes 🐾

On Friday, spectators, volunteers, and local officials “pawsed” for a moment outside the colorful Macy’s flagship store in Union Square to see the red curtain drop and reveal the pets up for adoption in partnership with the animal care organization San Francisco SPCA.

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11/24/2025

The agents came onto campus at about 9:30 a.m. on Friday with a subpoena seeking information about a student. It was the second time that week that federal agents had operated in or around an East Bay elementary school campus.

A pair of U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents visited the Cherryland Elementary School campus in Hayward last week looking for information about a

11/22/2025

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