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October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A caravan of Customs and Border Protection agents arrived at the Coast Guard’s facilities in Alameda early Thursday morning. At least 150 protesters are at the scene. President Trump has called off a federal deployment to San Francisco.

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October 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Four minutes after highway patrol officers broke off a chase, a suspect collided with another car, sending a child to intensive care.
https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/27/child-badly-injured-in-east-oakland-by-driver-who-crashed-after-a-police-chase/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 
March 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
No matter who wins the race for Oakland mayor, the coal industry probably will not have a friend in City Hall — at least for the next two years.
https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/26/loren-taylor-and-barbara-lee-sign-on-to-anti-coal-pledge/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 
March 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
​​The city of Oakland doesn’t have the cash to keep paying for a private security company to guard City Hall and other public facilities.
https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/26/oakland-has-run-out-of-money-to-pay-for-city-hall-security/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 
March 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Did Barbara Lee's time as a legislator prepare her to be the city’s cheerleader-in-chief?
oaklandside.org/2025/03/25/b...
March 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
City work crews plan to spend the entire month of April removing all of the homeless camps around Lake Merritt.
https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/25/lake-merritt-encampment-closure-oakland/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 
March 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We wanted a clearer picture of how some key figures who supported the recall feel about the mayor’s race.
https://oaklandside.org/2025/03/24/they-recalled-oaklands-mayor-who-are-they-backing-now/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 
March 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Lots of local services get grants from D.C. The president-elect has threatened to slash that funding in the past.
https://oaklandside.org/2024/11/27/oakland-federal-funding-trump/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 
March 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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