Cherryland News

Exposure. That's what officials are hoping to provide small-business owners during a mid-county business fair to be held Tuesday.

A woman was struck and killed by a Capitol Corridor train Thursday afternoon in unincorporated Hayward, apparently when she was pulled into the path of the train by a dog she was walking.

A woman in her mid-30s to early 40s and her dog were hit and killed by a train shortly after 2:15 p.m. today on Blossom Way between Meekland and Times avenues in the unincorporated area of Cherryland.

Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Hayward, has introduced state legislation intended to let voters in the greater Hayward area decide whether San Leandro Hospital and its emergency room can be sold or transferred to another owner.

While June is the end of the regular school year, it's the start of seminar and workshop season for businesses interested in surviving the current economic downturn and learning about ongoing private investments in suburban San Leandro.

The financial hits keep on coming for cities such as San Leandro and Hayward, and for Alameda County.

Arlene Nehring and Stephanie Spencer exchange rings during a wedding ceremony at the Eden United Church of Christ Saturday October 11, 2008 in the unincorporated Cherryland section of Hayward, Calif.

Charles Woody is thinking square for his garden this year. As in, square tomatoes.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday that a $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed San Leandro resident Gary Jones.

Daniel Galindo said he felt an urge to clean out his car while driving home from a family visit early Tuesday and went to his usual 24-hour carwash on Mission Boulevard to do just that.

Lighting up a cigarette while strolling through Hayward-area parks will soon be a thing of the past.

Baby birds and injured wildlife in the Hayward area are the latest victims of the current economic downturn.

A $220,000 grant from the California Corrections Standards Authority is funding a program at San Lorenzo High School that attempts to intervene before students fall into gang life.

The Castro Valley Chamber of Commerce just got bigger. Well, sort of. Earlier this week the chamber - which has seen 85 member businesses leave the organization during the past year - received approval from the ...

For decades, youngsters and teenagers in Ashland and Cherryland have had few places besides parks to hang out after school and on weekends.

Gil Johnson uses the original form of transportation - his feet - when taking three- to five-mile daily walks throughout San Leandro with his guide dog.

Sgt. Mike Carroll's four-man Street Crimes Unit is attempting to put a damper on armed robberies in the unincorporated areas of Alameda County.

After 55 years, Steve Rubiolo's photography business is back in nearly the same spot where it all began, in a home studio a few short blocks from the Cherryland sign on Mission Boulevard.

Students at Arroyo High School pulled together to raise $550 and collect more than 600 toys, which will be distributed by the Alameda County Fire Department to needy children in the county.

Police arrested a man on Sunday night who they believe is responsible for a pair of liquor store holdups earlier in the day, and investigators are looking at a possible connection to a third similar robbery in ...