Alameda News

California AG Jerry Brown's office may have issued its report on ex-spokesman Scott Gerber's secret taping program, but the political blowback has just begun.

A swearing-in ceremony is being held in Washington, D.C., Thursday for John Garamendi, who won a special general election Tuesday for an open U.S. Congress seat in the East Bay.

Despite a severe vaccine shortage, Alameda and Contra Costa counties will hold free swine flu clinics beginning Saturday, but will sharply restrict who is eligible for the coveted shots.

The San Francisco Business times is reporting that federal stimulus money is funding Bay area energy startups.

The Alameda County Public Health Department vaccinated about 7,000 people today during four H1N1 vaccination clinics in the county.

Denise Shelton the box office manager for the Alameda Civic Light Opera sent in this reminder that ACLO is has a great show, Broadway's Greatest Moments at Kofman tonight at 8:00 p.m. and tomorrow at 2:00 p.m.: As you know, this has been a tough year financially for many organizations.

An Alameda police officer remains in the hospital Friday and is expected to survive after suffering significant injuries after crashing his motorcycle while pursuing a traffic violator Thursday morning, a police sergeant said.

The board of directors of the City of Alameda Health Care District voted to extend the application deadline for filling the vacancy on the board of directors to Nov.

A former Brazilian police officer is scheduled to enter a plea Nov. 20 to 17 felony charges involving sexual assaults on six women in Oakland and Emeryville from April to last month, authorities said Friday.

A mechanical failure that occurred during a bunkering operation with a fuel barge Oct.

Alameda Point Development Initiative - Public Benefits Could Cost $375 Million, SunCal Only Committed to $200 Million On October 30th supplement to the City of Alameda Election Report on SunCal's Alameda Point Initiative indicates that the promised public benefits could cost from $300 million to $375 million.

Alameda residents will get to vote on the proposed redevelopment plan for Alameda Point in February after the City Council decided Tuesday to place it on the ballot.

What began in 1993 as a one-time art exhibit in 16 years has become an annual celebration of the works created by Alameda female artists.

OCTOBER WAS A GREAT month for adoptions and rescues at the Alameda Animal Shelter.

THE LEAGUE of Women Voters of Alameda recently asked City Treasurer Kevin Kennedy to present the findings of his committee, the Fiscal Sustainability Committee, to its membership and the citizens of Alameda.

Proponents of a plan to turn Chipman Middle School into a charter have turned in a proposal that, they say, offers the educational resources the school's students need to thrive without creating a financial hit to the school district.

According to City of Alameda Development Services Manager Leslie Little, who is also on the board of the California Redevelopment Association, a Sacramento-based lobby group, Alameda's redevelopment agency, the Community Improvement Commission , is supposed to lose money each year, "because agencies operate this way Statewide."

A ship that spilled hundreds of gallons of fuel oil into the Bay was moved from its anchorage to a San Francisco pier on Sunday, escorted by a crew of skimming vessels that sought to prevent any more residual oil from soiling the water.

Crews are continuing to clean up oil that spilled from a tanker into the San Francisco Bay last week, resulting in the closure of several local beaches in the Alameda area and the deaths of at least a dozen birds.

Cleanup crews are still sopping up fuel that washed up on Alameda County beaches after last week's oil spill in San Francisco Bay.