Albany News

To the people who miscalculated the world's end at 2012 according to the Mayan calendar: Are you sure it's not 2013 instead? I mean, geez-louise, there's been so much freakishly awful stuff going on in the news lately, the end is surely near: bombings at a marathon, fertilizer plants blowing up, women held captive for a decade, fatal limo fires, ... (more)

A patio of squares and rounds Colored stones, surrounded by pavers of stained concrete, create the illusion of a stream bubbling through the center of this 12-foot patio in Berkeley.

About 8 a.m. a caller reported that approximately 20 minutes earlier near Santa Fe Avenue and Key Route Boulevard, a person described as a white male adult in his 30s with dark hair and carrying a backpack whistled to get the caller's attention.

With Anthony Weiner about to pop into the race for mayor, one of his Democratic rivals demanded yesterday that he pony up $350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated congressional seat two years ago.

The activists, called Occupy the Farm , have been visiting the San Pablo Avenue site since May 11.

ShelfTalker Guest blogger Alison Morris chronicles her visit to Greece with other children's book lovers for a Children's Literature New England weeklong institute.

Occupy the Farm supporters returned to the UC Berkeley-owned Gill Tract on Saturday morning to re-occupy the urban farmland where activists want to grow food for surrounding communities.

On Saturday, May 11th, over a hundred people gathered at the Gill Tract in Albany with the intention of using publicly-owned university land to grow vegetables for a 2nd year in a row.

We've redesigned Patch and the Patch app. You'll see the new site beginning sometime tonight, Tuesday, or early tomorrow morning, and the new app is coming soon.

Over the course of the past week, actions by offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement have brought attention to the issues of student tuition hikes and food sovereignty.

When the top three winners of a Bay Area essay contest for fifth graders are asked to read their essays at a ceremony in San Francisco Wednesday night, one of them will be Zachary Adler of Ocean View Elementary School.

One person was arrested this morning, Monday, when UC Berkeley police evicted the Occupy the Farm activists who had occupied a university-owned lot next to University Village in Albany.

Police have moved in on protesters who occupied land owned by the University of California in the San Francisco Bay area city of Albany.

Albany's population decreased by 0.2 percent last year, the only city in the East Bay to experience a drop, according to a new state report.

A half-hour standoff between a man in a pickup with what appeared to be a real gun and a swarm of Albany and Berkeley police officers with guns drawn at Golden Gate Fields ended Saturday morning without shots fired and with the arrest of the suspect, police said.

A group of activists reclaimed a tract of land in Albany, Calif., owned by the University of California at Berkeley on Saturday in a takeover they termed Occupy the Farm.

Some readers have asked when the preliminary hearing will be held for Diane Sydenham of Albany, who has been charged with murdering a retired Kensington psychologist.

The attached photo was distributed Friday by UC Berkeley officials to clear up what they termed "misinformation" about the university-owned Gill Tract in Albany, where urban-farming activists from Occupy the Farm have said they plan an occupation on Saturday.

If you see a skinny, senior-citizen cat with a coat the color of golden straw, it might be the missing "Dinki." We spotted a "Cat Missing" flyer for 19-year-old Dinki on a telephone pole at Nielson Street and San Lorenzo Avenue near the Albany border in North Berkeley's Thousand Oaks neighborhood that was dated April 24, 2013.

The latest plans for a grocery store and senior housing on land owned by the University of California will need some tweaks to satisfy the city's zoning guidelines, the Planning and Zoning Commission told developers May 8. The plans were considered for well over three hours, with the public comment portion taking one hour and 40 minutes.