Albany News

Two Albany boys and their grandmother are recovering this week from an illness caused by eating poisonous mushrooms late last month.

Robert Avena-Bustillos, a member of the research team at the USDA's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., runs tests using natural, antimicrobial-containing edible films that could be used to kill ...

Officers are investigating. THEFT - Employees at Target on the 1000 block of Eastshore reported that at about 5:30 p.m. a woman grabbed an i-pod and ran out of the store with it when her credit card was ...

This is the time of year when the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond makes its appeal for financial gifts that allow it to continue providing food, shelter, recovery programs, basic resources and more for men, ...

Parent Joanie Allbeegood leads a group of Albany elementary school kids to school as part of a Walking School Bus program on Wednesday Dec.

Strains that carry these genes may have the capa- bility of synthesizing mimics of the P blood group antigens of the globoseries glycolipids.

Weighing odds on Golden Gate Fields' future Entrants of the third race head down the home stretch at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, Calif., on Thursday, Dec.

Esther Mabry is 88, walks with a cane, and isn't in the best of health. Thus she doesn't get to her West Oakland watering hole, Esther's Orbit Room, with her usual frequency these days.

The Santa Barbara Sheriffa Department sent out a notice this evening that citizens should be on the watch for a missing man.

Officers arrested a 34-year-old Berkeley man riding a bike near San Pablo and Marin Avenues at about 10 p.m. when they stopped him for being on probation and found he had a crack pipe.

Bistro 1491 breakfast cook Howie Slater prepares short rib hash at the restaurant in Albany, Calif.

Bill Dulen in his booking photo from the Alameda County Jail in California. Geoff Liesik 09.DEC.08 Alleged child sex offender stopped for talking on cell phone while driving A fugitive from Roosevelt facing ...

The cats and dogs of Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Kensington, Emeryville and North Oakland just lost a good friend.

They arrested the driver, a 24-year-old San Pablo man when he was found to be on parole for burglary and stolen items were found in his car.

While the official reopening of Nevin Park and the Nevin Community Center in Richmond are more than a month away, the public can see the park and celebrate the season from 5 to 7 p.m. today at a festival and ...

Officers arrested a 15-year-old Berkeley girl at about 5 p.m. when they investigated reports of suspicious activity on the 1000 block of Neilson Street.

A conservation group and citizens including two Bay Area mayors sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in San Francisco Tuesday in a bid to stop a possible resumption of apple moth ...

An environmental group, two East Bay mayors and others filed a lawsuit to overturn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval of aerial sprayings to combat the light brown apple moth.

Someone stole a ladder and a compressor from a backyard on the 600 block of Talbot Avenue during the night.

It was all about Duffy. Suzan Snider's 7-year-old Scottish terrier is much loved.