Oakland

Job losses hammer Bay Area tech industry in brutal beginning for 2025

Traffic passes by Meta headquarters, Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Menlo Park, Calif., on the day the company announced another 10,000 job cuts. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

Oakland Finance Director Erin Roseman addresses the Oakland City Council at a meeting on Dec. 17, 2024. (Screenshot courtesy of the city of Oakland)

Oakland City Council clashes with finance director as 37 police vehicles idle at dealership

People gather outside for the red carpet during the premiere of “Freaky Tales” at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

‘Freaky Tales’ is a beautiful, bonkers love song to Oakland

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Montclair

A live raccoon on March 1, 1951, draws children to the Noah's Ark exhibit at Children's Fairyland in Oakland. The kids’ amusement park on Lake Merritt, which had just opened the previous September, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

Snapp Shots: Children’s Fairyland in Oakland marking 75th anniversary

The Lake Merritt amusement park opened its doors in 1950 to more than a half-million visitors, including Walt Disney, in its first year.

Piedmont

FILE – An American flag hangs in a classroom as students work on laptops in Newlon Elementary School, Aug. 25, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Letters: California should leave history curriculum to educators

Also: Reform Prop. 13 | Patriots' pledge | Lee for mayor | Convenient concern. East Bay Times reader letters to the editor for March 21, 2025.

If dark energy were a universal constant, then the separation between galaxies would be uniform over time. But the latest findings show a strong indication that dark matter is weakening and causing expansion to slow.