Union City News

Milpitas business employees stepping up to alleviate the disheartening financial burden on local schools are proof-positive they are more than just retailers in the community, but for the community.

Mayor Mark Green, the longtime elected leader of Union City, will be the next president of the Association of Bay Area Governments.

Union City's yearlong 50th birthday celebration will end the way it started - with a New Year's Eve bash.

Q I never thought I would have to send this, but a few months back, I went abroad with my kids.

More than 500 foster care children in Fremont, Newark and Union City got bikes and toys for Christmas thanks to $10,000 in donations collected by NUMMI workers who are facing an uncertain future themselves.

They say it's not how you start but how you finish that matters - which is good news for Kelly and Raymond Houston, who started the year unemployed and homeless and are ending it with steady paychecks and a place of their own.

Fremont Planning Commission on Dec. 10 opened the five-day public comment period for an environmental impact report for the new Patterson Ranch proposal in northern Fremont as several opponents say the project is bad for the community.

As Nevada County residents continue their quest for self-sustainability, Sun Energy Engineering Co.

Union City police arrested one person for DUI on Saturday night during a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint.

On the night of December 5 th 2009, the gente of the Bay Area came stepping out to pay their respects to East Bay legend JJ Amaya, who celebrated his 30 th year anniversary of hitting the air waves with his OLowriding with JJ ShowO on 89.3 fm KOHL.

Imbibers beware: Starting today and running through Jan. 3, law enforcement agencies throughout the county and beyond will be on the lookout for those who get behind the wheel after having too much holiday cheer.

Sunday 10:02 a.m. - A man from the 100 block of Northridge Road reported his car was missing from his driveway when he woke up in the morning.

Several Tri-City area community leaders will be honored today by Assemblyman Alberto Torrico at his annual awards ceremony.

Two men found guilty of killing a Brinks armored truck guard during a $1.2 million heist were sent to prison for the rest of their lives Friday by a judge who said the defendants - one of them an ex-Marine - were the "lowest people" he had ever crossed paths with.

D.S. of Sunnyvale recently was cited for drunken driving, with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent.

There's a costly irony for Tri-City residents and businesses when it comes to water.

WHEN we at Jatco, a Union City plastics company, decided to initiate a recycling program, we quickly learned that we had a lot of work to do.

The best cure for writer's block? Pick up the pen and simply let the ink flow. "Even if you don't know what to write, just write, 'I don't know what to write,'"<" the instructor said, encouraging the students to "flow write" whatever popped into their minds.

Volunteers were out in force in the greater Hayward and Fremont areas this Thanksgiving, serving up hot holiday meals of turkey and stuffing to the homeless and those struggling to make ends meet.

The city has agreed to head into mediation with its public works employees' union following weeks of pressure from workers that the city continue negotiations rather than have the City Council impose new contract terms.