Ashland News

A recent growth boom has bolstered Dublin's economy, with the Alameda County Fire Department and Graybar Electric Co.

After today's post about the possible closing of the Alameda's bridges, County Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker sent out the following email: Third Supervisorial District - County of Alameda Representing the communities of Alameda, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, portions of Ashland, and the Chinatown and Fruitvale Areas of Oakland Alameda County Public Works ...

Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Hayward, has introduced state legislation intended to let voters in the greater Hayward area decide whether San Leandro Hospital and its emergency room can be sold or transferred to another owner.

While June is the end of the regular school year, it's the start of seminar and workshop season for businesses interested in surviving the current economic downturn and learning about ongoing private investments in suburban San Leandro.

The financial hits keep on coming for cities such as San Leandro and Hayward, and for Alameda County.

It looks like midsummer madness all over again. For the second year in a row, comedy is king at the region's summer Shakespeare festivals.

The nondescript white building in unincorporated Ashland has iron bars on its windows and the look of a bunker.

An Alameda County sheriff's sergeant and deputy shot a man dead at a Castro Valley triplex Sunday after finding the man with a dead woman, authorities said.

A 3-year-old girl in a stroller being pushed by her mother died from her injuries after being hit by a car in a crosswalk Thursday night, police said.

San Lorenzo residents made it clear Wednesday night that they do not like the idea of medical marijuana dispensaries in their community.

The Alameda County Library's Write to Read adult literacy program is looking for volunteers.

Authorities are on the lookout for 26-year-old Ashland resident Luis Meza Valdiva, who allegedly abducted his 22-month-old daughter this morning after pulling a knife on her mother.

A man suffered a fatal head injury Monday morning during an argument with his wife on Mateo Street in Ashland, according to the California Highway Patrol.

At least 200 people were on hand for an anti-violence rally Sunday afternoon at Edendale Middle School.

Lighting up a cigarette while strolling through Hayward-area parks will soon be a thing of the past.

Baby birds and injured wildlife in the Hayward area are the latest victims of the current economic downturn.

A $220,000 grant from the California Corrections Standards Authority is funding a program at San Lorenzo High School that attempts to intervene before students fall into gang life.

The Castro Valley Chamber of Commerce just got bigger. Well, sort of. Earlier this week the chamber - which has seen 85 member businesses leave the organization during the past year - received approval from the ...

It's been five years to the day since Randi Butterworth lost her son. What is particularly galling to her is that no arrests have been made, even though several people witnessed the events that led to her son's ...

The Hayward Area Recreation and Park District board of directors gave big kudos Friday to a few of the local volunteers who chip in with their time and effort to help out their communities.