Alameda News

Two Bay Area men were sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison Friday for their role in a fiery collision that killed three graduate students on Interstate Highway 80 in Berkeley in 2005, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The day after the University of California Board of Regents approved a 32 percent increase in fees that are the equivalent of tuition, protests continued on several campuses, with students occupying buildings at Santa Cruz and Berkeley.

A judge's decision to move Johannes Mehserle's murder trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit police officer charged with gunning down an unarmed man on New Year's Day.

The small island town of Alameda, California was rocked by the pop phenomena of Twilight at midnight last night when Twilight New Moon made it's premiere at the local theatre.

Yesterday, Alameda firefighters announced that starting Monday, the union local would give away free Thanksgiving turkeys to Alameda families, while supplies last.

City Councilwoman Marie Gilmore has announced she's running for mayor. Gilmore has served on the council for six years and points to the openings of the new main library and the Alameda Theatre & Cineplex, as well as her work to revamp the Park and Webster street business districts, as among her achievements.

Sculptor Vakil Kuner had no expectations walking into Autobody Fine Art's "Critique Salon" with his recycled aluminum casts in hand.

In this twelve-page letter to SunCal, Alameda City Manager Ann Marie Gallant responds to written comments received from SunCal about the City's election report.

State inspectors say an oil spill that sent hundreds of gallons of bunker oil into San Francisco Bay was caused by a fuel tank that overflowed during a morning refueling stop.

OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE decisions that will have immediate and profound impact on an entire community do not come along frequently.

Share + Nov 17, 2009 12:38 am US/Pacific OAKLAND Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said Monday that she has agreed to state Attorney General Jerry Brown's request that her office investigate the secret taping of conversations with reporters by Brown's former communications director.

Robert Rosales stands by his BMW at his home in San Jose, Calif. on Saturday, November 14, 2009.

A child's body was recovered from San Francisco Bay waters south of the Berkeley Marina late this morning near where investigators spent Saturday searching for a missing 17-month-old son of a murder victim, a police lieutenant said.

A search of Berkeley's Aquatic Park concluded this afternoon with no new information about the disappearance of the 17-month-old son of the woman found murdered on the park's shoreline early Friday morning, a police lieutenant said.

Police arrested a 20-year-old Alameda man Tuesday after a background check revealed that he was wanted on a warrant that accuses him of receiving stolen property.

Authorities are searching for a missing infant, the son of the woman found murdered in Berkeley's Aquatic Park Friday morning.

While the Alameda County Republican Party has a history of hostility, lawsuits, and in-fighting, the November 17th Monthly Meeting is shaping up to be a war-zone. Earlier this week, the ACRP Executive Committee gave their approval to a resolution that would make a non-interventionist foreign policy, the official position of the county party.

Speech therapist Roberta Rockwell has worked with Alameda students for more than two decades, helping special education students communicate with the world.

Officials are releasing birds that were cleaned of oil that coated them after a spill in San Francisco Bay last month.

Lani Cid-Iulio's students call her "Auntie Lani," and her assistant at Halau Makana Polynesian Dance Company in Alameda is "Auntie Julia." It's a fitting tribute to women who have spent the past 12 years bringing a little bit of Hawaii to the mainland.