Fremont News

Thousands of kites lifted off in Fremont Saturday, soaring high above Central Park Meadow between Lake Elizabeth and Aqua Adventure Waterpark.

For six weeks Cabrillo Elementary School students were diligently sorting through their garbage bins to track the contents as part of the school's Ready Set Recycle Challenge.

Bryant Salazar, a 30-year-old San Jose resident, was arrested Friday in connection to a road rage and stabbing incident that occurred last week, Fremont Police Department reported.

Bay Area-based Maddie's Fund is ramping up for the nation's biggest free pet adoption event June 1 and 2. The free pet adoptions will take place at more than 100 adoption sites and street fairs around the area, including four locations in Fremont along with one in Milpitas and seven in San Jose.

Cedar Lawn Cemetery and Lima Family Milpitas Fremont Mortuary will hold a Memorial Day service at 10 a.m. Monday, May 27 at the cemetery, 48800 Warm Springs Blvd.

A Livermore software engineer was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in state prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction for the stabbing death of another man in a road rage incident in Livermore two years ago.

Tesla, the electric carmaker, on Wednesday paid off a $465 million loan that the Energy Department made in 2010.

For the second consecutive year, city officials are offering positive budget news, saying the region's fourth-largest city finally is emerging from the Great Recession.

The bad news for campers is that, at least in the East Bay Regional Parks, all available campsites have been booked for weeks.

Q Do you know if BART police respond to texts for help? In some situations I wouldn't want to be the voice on the train calling for help if it was going to attract attention to me.

Officers were called at 8:10 p.m. to the 48200 block of Sawleaf Street for a report of a vicious dog, said police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques.

Officers were called at 8:45 p.m. to a home in the 43000 block of Osgood Road for a report of an assault with a deadly weapon, according to Fremont police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques.

Police are asking residents not to leave running vehicles in their driveways after two cars were stolen from homes on Tuesday morning.

AU Energy, a Fremont company, has submitted an application to the city of Novato to renovate the Shell gas station and convenience store at 2085 Novato Blvd.

A Fremont man and a Redwood City man were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison for selling two pounds of methamphetamine to an undercover police officer, authorities said Monday.

NuForce Inc. , a leader in professional and consumer audio gear, announces its Mobile Music Pump , a portable headphone amplifier designed to enhance the sound quality of those MP3 files and make music truly come alive whenever and wherever.

In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.

Police have reopened a stretch of Alvarado Boulevard after a car crashed into a power pole causing downed power lines.

A customer drives a Model S out of Tesla's factory in Fremont, Calif., June 22, 2012.

Ridership continues to decline for the Capitol Corridor in FY2013; however, the drop in ridership for April 2013 was not as significant as prior FY2013 results.