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Editor's note: The Hawaiian word huaka i can mean journey, trip or mission - all of which apply to what happened when Berkeley native and ki ho alu guitarist Patrick Landeza decided years ago to master the genre while growing up in the Bay Area.

A red light camera, like the one above, reportedly captured Keisha Dunlevy blowing through a red light in Newark, Calif.

Michael Milliken will be the new superintendent for the Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary School District - a decision approved by the board last night after nearly two years without a permanent leader.

Rosita Avenue and Anderson Court, 11:45 a.m. Friday A 26-year-old Los Altos man accused of eight armed robberies in Los Altos since Feb. 2, including U.S. Bank, Bank of the West, Shell gas and Round Table Pizza, and two others -- Standard Liquor and Comerica Bank, which he struck twice -- was arrested after police spotted his vehicle.

Police are asking the public to keep an eye out for stolen sentimental yard art that belongs to a 7-year-old autistic girl who lives in the city with her family.

A 19-year-old alleged Fremont gang member was sent to prison for 16 years to life Friday for stabbing a Newark Memorial High School football start to death outside a party last year.

Patrick Landeza, seen accepting his Na Hoku award - a first for a Mainland musician - for best slack key album of the year .

Newark, California May 31, 2013 Corelynx Inc, an enterprise software product development and services company, is now Consulting Partner of Amazon AWS cloud computing solutions to offer better and improved cloud hosting and delivering solutions to its clients.

A Fremont man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder for the brutal stabbing death of a popular Newark high school football player nearly three years ago, a prosecutor said Friday afternoon.

A 19-year-old alleged Fremont gang member was sent to prison for 16 years to life Friday for stabbing a Newark Memorial High School football start to death outside a party last year.

A Fremont man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder for the brutal stabbing death of a popular Newark high school football player nearly three years ago, a prosecutor said Friday afternoon.

The city wants to change the timing of its elections to coincide with the November 2014 general election.

In an effort to bring more businesses of color into the fold, the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey and the statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey announced a strategic partnership and alliance in Newark this week.

TheatreWorks, a nonprofit theater company based in Palo Alto, has decided to clean out the closets and sell off costumes and props from its 43-year-old stash.

The League of Volunteers Community Service Center will be open for business June 3 at 8440 Central Ave., suites A and B in Newark.

A 50-year-old San Jose man is facing assault and gun charges after he fired 30 rounds inside a Newark home and then shot at officers as he walked out of the home earlier this month, police said Wednesday night.

Yesterday's Fremont house was such a hit, let's return to South Alameda County for today's property.

Lisa Jackson had formerly worked under the EPA as an analyst of water and air quality, climate change, and oil cleanup resulting from the BP oil spill, during which time the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 people and gushing oil for 87 days and discharging almost 5 million barrels of the black gold, before being capped on July 15, 2010, ... (more)

Scary surveillance video shows thieves setting their sights on high-end jeans. The jeans sell for up to $400 a pair and it is happening all over the world and right here in the Bay Area.

John Henneberry, of Newark, a vociferous critic of the Newark City Council, who frequently chides them at council meetings, talks to the city council during the public comment portion of the agenda in Newark, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013.