Oakland, in bid to keep Raiders from Las Vegas, moves forward on new stadium talks

Officials in Oakland, in a bid to keep their National Football League team the Raiders from moving to Las Vegas, have voted to work with a group seeking to build a $1.3 billion stadium, according to local media. Raiders owner Mark Davis, who is dissatisfied with the team's aging Coliseum stadium in Oakland, has for much of this year pursued a possible move to Las Vegas. Retired NFL player Ronnie Lott is leading an effort to raise money to build a $1.3 billion stadium in Oakland, a city of more than 400,000 people across the bay from San Francisco.

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