Oakland Roots Fall 3-2 in Finale as Piedmont Opens NCS Playoffs
Oakland Roots SC saw its USL Championship playoff hopes end in a 3-2 regular-season finale defeat at Sacramento Republic FC despite…
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East Bay Sophomore Builds Blockwork Site for Safe Teen Chores
Aaditya Kamat, a 10th grader at American High School in Fremont, created Blockwork (blockwork.online) to connect teenagers with…
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Alameda Father-Son Skateboard Brand Raises $2,000 for Celiac Research
Eleven-year-old Alameda fifth-grader Carmelo Kamler and his father, Josh Kamler, have donated more than $2,000 in profits from their…
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Build Machine Learning Radiation Blood Test
Researchers Jian-Hua Mao, Jamie Inman, and Hang Chang at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed Sparse CBC, an…
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Contra Costa Nonprofit Grants Antioch Vietnam Veteran and Wife One More Safari West Adventure
Arranged by Contra Costa County nonprofit An Elderly Wish Foundation, 82-year-old Vietnam War veteran Jim Ledbetter and his wife, Lynn…
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UC Berkeley Astronomers Help Lead NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Mission
Twenty-seven years after UC Berkeley physicist Saul Perlmutter and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory colleagues first proposed the…
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Port of Oakland Commissions 12-Megawatt-Hour Solar and Battery Microgrid at Oakland Airport to Power Electric Tarmac Fleet
Three-megawatt solar carport array and lithium-iron-phosphate storage bank on Earhart Road energize 48 electric baggage tugs and…
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BART Commissions 2-Megawatt Magnetic-Levitation Flywheel Energy Storage Substation at Warm Springs/South Fremont Station
Vacuum-sealed steel rotors spinning at 16,000 RPM on Warm Springs Boulevard capture 1,000-volt third-rail braking bursts and return…
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Oakland Roots Surge Into Western Conference Playoff Position With Four-Goal Victory Over FC Tulsa
Second-half attacking masterclass delivers crucial 4-2 road victory, positioning East Bay soccer club for postseason tournament berth.
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Black Panther Party Marks 60th Anniversary in Oakland as Co-Founder Bobby Seale Reflects on Civic Legacy
Sixty years after Bobby Seale and Huey P.
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