Alameda News

Human bones that were discovered by a worker repaving a walkway on Mound Street on Wednesday are American Indian, police said.

While Officer Ed Wisgerhof isn't from Rio Vista originally, he returned to the small-town atmosphere he grew up in after spending about 18 months as a police officer in Alameda.

Two robbers used their cars to box in a restaurant delivery driver as he was leaving a stop on Bay Street early Saturday morning, before one suspect got out and confronted the driver at gunpoint, police said.

US Navy veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor Owen Smith holds a wreath as he is escorted by US Air Force veteran Don Arnold during a Pearl Harbor rememberance service aboard the USS Hornet on December 7, 2011 in Alameda, California.

The Urban Gorillas team of Alameda and Oakland participate with their sculpture "Fallen Ionic Capital" in Alameda's 46th annual Sand Castle and Sand Sculpture Contest at Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda, Calif., on Saturday, June 9, 2012.

Beginning Saturday morning, June 22, 2013, a group of "ham" radio operators from the USS HORNET MUSEUM SHIP will be setting up a host of amateur radio stations on the flight deck of the museum ship, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the nuts and bolts of emergency radio operations.

Plan Bay Area is a long-range transportation and land-use/housing blueprint for the entire, nine-county Bay Area - but no other county has reacted to the plan with the fervor of Marin County.

The state health department has fined three Bay Area nursing homes a total of $200,000 for incidents that led to the deaths of three residents.

That's right, Berkeley City College, College of Alameda, Laney College and Merritt College have their own broadcast outlets featuring -- not only educational and community programs -- but award-winning documentaries, international programming and many other unique shows you just won't find anywhere else.

The 2nd Annual Wiggle Waggle Walk is Saturday! Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter is having this fun event to raise money for Alameda's homeless pets.

A ruling that struck down parts of a parcel tax that voters passed to support local schools will stand after the California Supreme Court decided not to review the case, setting the stage for some taxpayers to receive refunds.

Filipino-Americans from Alameda and around the Bay Area celebrated the first Philippine Independence Day Celebration in Alameda on Saturday.

In 2006, an AT&T technician went public with what he said was an unconstitiutional effort by the National Security Agency to build a 'black room' inside an AT&T switching facility at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco, a room that would allow the National Security Agency to survey and analyse Internet traffic passing through the facility.

That technician is Mark Klein, and he lives in Alameda.

Every week, it seems, I read an article in the Alameda Journal, the Alameda Sun or The Alamedan about another planned and/or approved development.

The Alameda County District Attorney's office has dropped charges against Planning Board member and union official Mike Henneberry that stemmed from his arrest in November during the strike against Raley's and Nob Hill.

Alameda Beauty College will be hosting its first annual Fantasy Hair Show at Alameda High School in Alameda, on Saturday evening June 15, to benefit the California Partnership to End Against Domestic Violence.

Slade MPD towed a white, 1993 GMC Sierra from the 800 block of Taylor for being abandoned.

Mark Klein poses for photographs at his home in Alameda, Calif., Tuesday, June 11, 2013.

The City of Alameda has reversed course and agreed to release budget documents in spreadsheet format, where it has previously refused to do so.

The Alameda County Fair has more to offer than just pig races, fireworks, carnival rides and deep-fried Twinkies.