Hayward News

Land once slated to be a freeway running through the Hayward hills will be used for low-density housing in sensitive areas and high-density projects near public transit, with options that could pave the way for a new school or transit-oriented community.

As eminent domain proceedings begin for a property that is key to the creation of a downtown loop of one-way streets, the landowner says the city's bid severely underestimates the value of the parcels.

Arnold Schwarzenegger offered a $50,000 reward today for tips leading to the conviction of the assailants in the shooting death of a man in unincorporated Hayward.

Shortly after Veronica Perotti was found slain inside her West Second Avenue apartment in 1984, investigators asked the state to post a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her killer.

Police say a developmentally disabled teen entered an 11-year-old girl's bedroom in the middle of the night and began fondling her feet before being scared off when the girl woke up.

Responders on June 18 work on two of the accident victims, including Gurvinder Chahal, a 19-year-old who succumbed to her injuries Tuesday.

A former Dublin physician was sentenced Wednesday to seven years and four months in state prison for committing sexual crimes against four men and a 13-year-old boy.

The suspect, a 19-year-old Pittsburg man whose name wasn't immediately released, was arrested after the rampage, said Alameda County sheriff's Sgt.

Two men in Hayward allegedly kicked a man out of the car he was living in Thursday morning, stole it and then drove it to a Home Depot where police arrested them, a police lieutenant said.

A plan to rezone a swath of land that was once going to be a hills freeway will go before the City Council for approval at its Tuesday meeting.

A man found lying in the street early Thursday is the city's fifth homicide victim of the year, after the Alameda County Coroner's Office deemed that wounds he suffered are suspicious in nature.

An Oakland man was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder for stabbing his girlfriend 75 times after she tried to break up with him.

A draft version of a permit was released today that, if approved, would allow for the construction of a 600-megawatt power plant near the Hayward shoreline.

Someone opened fire on Eduardo Pereira, 27, of Hayward and the other man at 12:45 a.m. on the 28000 block of Cole Place , police Lt.

A man who was fatally shot in Hayward early Monday morning has been identified as 27-year-old Eduardo Pereira, Hayward police Lt.

A 28-year-old suspected drunken driver is behind bars for a Sunday night collision on the 215 Freeway that killed a motorcyclist and injured his passenger, officials said.

A California Highway Patrol officer was injured in HaywardA Saturday morning when a driver reportedly crashed through temporary safety barriers on a highway and collided with a patrol car conducting traffic control, a CHP officer said.

The City Council this week adopted a new municipal budget that lacked the drastic cutbacks faced by other communities, thanks to last month's voter approval of a utility tax estimated to raise $13 million a year.

Responders care for one of the three victims in this morning's accident. A big rig driver attempted a U-turn into the northbound lane, and a car could not avoid it.

SETTLING A LAWSUIT isn't enough. The culture inside the Hayward Police Department must change in the aftermath of a nearly $5 million payment to 14 female police officers who say they were the victims of sexual harassment for years.