Alameda News

The next time you're on the platform at the del Norte BART station in El Cerrito, you may notice some unusual posters mixed in with the usual advertisements.

In 2009, the City tasked the ICMA A with providing a professional assessment of Alameda's fire service needs.

Protesters flocked to Crown Beach in Alameda Saturday to the spot where Raymond Zack drowned a year ago as police and firefighters stood by.

Concerts at the Cove will return to Alameda this summer on three Friday evenings: June 8, July 13, and August 10.

Until this week, it looked like District 5 incumbent Keith Carson was going to sail unopposed in the June election to a fifth term as Alameda County supervisor.

Contra Costa Supervisor Gayle Uilkema's death last week is spurring talk about whether someone ought to fill the remaining six months on her term.

The family of a man who died in the water off an Alameda beach last year while police and firefighters stood by has filed a lawsuit against the city and against Alameda County.

From a USS Hornet Museum press release: A Memorial Day tribute honoring veterans past and present will take place onboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet beginning at 1 p.m. Monday, May 28.

Raymond Zack, 52, waded fully clothed about 150 yards from the shore of Robert Crown Memorial State Beach on May 30, 2011.

Today, relatives of Raymond Zack, an Alameda man that drowned at Crown Beach last Memorial Day, filed a lawsuit against the City of Alameda and the County of Alameda over his death, claiming unspecified damages.

The wheel of the seasons is turning again.A For a few glorious weeks earlier this month, our shorelines around the bay were packed with water birds.A Shorebirds in their breeding finery shared the bounty of the intertidal and shallow water areas with California least tern newly arrived from Mexico.A The shorebirds are now gone, away in the night ... (more)

Rather than cut hundreds of classes and turn away thousands more students, the board of trustees of the Peralta Colleges -- Berkeley City College, College of Alameda, and Laney and Merritt Colleges in Oakland -- recently voted to place a local parcel tax, Measure B, on the June ballot.

She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly , where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.

If you're making plans for the Memorial Day weekend at this late date, the bad news is that all campgrounds in the East Bay Regional Parks have been booked for months.

The annual Alameda Architecture Preservation Society awards focused on the young and old alike this year.

Negotiators from the Alameda Unified School District and the union that represents the district's maintenance, operations and food workers have reached a tentative deal on a contract that gives the employees a pay raise.

The Alameda City Council will hear a budget proposal Tuesday that calls for trimming more than $1 million from the police department -- including closing the city jail -- and for cuts at other city departments as a way to offset a projected $5.1 million deficit this upcoming fiscal year.

The Alameda Business Network is hosting a Spring Fling mixer at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

Alameda police are reminding joggers to take safety precautions after two muggers tried to steal a woman's iPhone while she was running on Broadway.