Most cannabis users have a dispensary that suits their needs. But anyone looking to explore new options should look no further than one Berkeley store. The Apothecarium Dispensary is worth a visit ...

Fecal transplants are being heralded as a simple cure for a dangerous and growing intestinal infection. But their future is uncertain. The answer to her woes, it turns out, was feces. Oakland ...

State and federal officials are expected to eliminate funding for long-term residential drug treatment programs as part of an overhaul of MediCal. In 1988, Angela Porter hit bottom. She was just ...

WINNING PAIR Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono front the group and write the songs that make their albums so compelling. The Mother Hips have played their unique blend of music—a freewheeling mixture ...

A third soon-to-open Tuff Shed camp will 'resolve' homelessness around the lake, but unsheltered residents are planning a protest. Nino Parker (right) said homeless residents around Lake Merritt ...

In Albert and David Maysles’ documentary, Grey Gardens, Little Edie Beale in a melancholy aside confides to the camera, “It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Oakland A’s history has featured more winning, heartbreak, brilliance, and controversy than most teams could dream of. Here’s the first of a three-part list of my Top 50 A’s moments in Oakland.

As a judge prepares to sentence the chief culprit in the 2007 oil spill, his detention will still be briefer than that of the innocent witnesses who helped prevent a much greater catastrophe.

BAD TIMING The tax hike is wrong-headed and untimely, declared the California chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws. Even as California’s cannabis industry and its allies ...

Thirty-five years after the horrific mass suicide in Guyana, former Peoples Temple members and relatives of the deceased are conflicted on the best way to honor the dead at the East Oakland gravesite.

Tim Hon and Steve Ha bring a self-taught style and old-school graffiti sensibility into plain view on Oakland's streets. Tim Hon and Steve Ha met at Newark Memorial High School and began tagging ...

In the latest exhibition at Betti Ono Gallery, the local artist personalizes the futuristic mythology and folklore of the African diaspora. In the painting “Zyla” from Paul Lewin’s newest ...