Emeryville News

City of Fremont may change its Inclusionary Housing Ordinance this fall to better meet its below-market-rate housing obligation.

Nashville is no doubt one of the hottest recording markets in the country, but we want to know how it got to be that way.

After a heated debate, a divided Martinez Unified School District board on Monday approved placing a $50 parcel tax on the November ballot.

At least 10 Bay Area locations of Starbucks have been slated for closure sometime within the next eight months.

A southbound Amtrak train struck and killed a man running across the tracks Thursday, just north of the Gilman Street crossing in Berkeley.

Bertha Taylor, the owner of an Alum Rock day care center where a toddler died in May after he apparently was strangled on a slide when the cord of his hooded jacket got caught, has appealed her case with the ...

Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed prohibiting tobacco sales in pharmacies, including Walgreens and Rite Aid.

The "Spore" alien population is exploding, boding well for the September launch of the latest brainchild of computer game legend Will Wright.

If you were a kid growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, there wasn't much to look at on the drive from Sacramento back to San Francisco.

When large fires burn throughout the state, it is not uncommon for mutual aid requests to pour into Alameda County.

If bird flu erupts into a pandemic, the world will need a lot of vaccine in a hurry. That would be virtually impossible with the current flu-vaccine manufacturing method, which is little changed since the 1940s.

Several companies have bird flu vaccines in development, though none is yet commercially available. Chiron Corp. of Emeryville, Calif., and Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis have begun clinical trials with vaccines that could be ready next year.

But flu vaccines traditionally are grown in millions of fertilized chicken eggs, a process that takes at least six months. The lengthy production cycle makes it hard for drug makers to keep up with mutating flu strains and limits the amount of vaccine they can produce quickly.

THE NEW 3G iPhone is twice as fast, unlike the lines people had to endure to get one.

We loved blended cocktails in the '30s and '40s, when the Waring blender washed ashore in Havana and was adopted by Constante Ribalagua, head barman at the Floridita.

Wineries seem to be popping up everywhere in the East Bay these days, but most of them are located in three areas: Livermore Valley, Suisun Valley and warehouse districts in Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville, ...

Roger Avery and 165 of his San Ramon neighbors slashed water use 25 percent in their front yards served by a common irrigation system two years ago, when they installed sophisticated computerized water ...

Western Career College said the Western Association of Schools and Colleges has renewed its accreditation for another six years.

Mormons have historically followed the mandates of church leaders, but some are balking at their president's dictate exhorting California believers to stump for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage ...

Ikea shoppers who have enjoyed visiting the Emeryville showroom just to eyeball the well-furnished vignettes and then lunch at the bargain cafe with a billion-dollar view are down on their luck at the moment.

TurnHere has signed on as a sponsor of the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival and will power the streaming video trailers at the festival's online film guide at www.lafilmfest.com. The Emeryville, Calif.-based ...

'Voice' of WALL-E: Robot sounds toddler-inspired In this image released by Disney Pixar, Oscar-winning sound engineer Ben Burtt works in his office on "WALL-E," on Feb.