Newark News

Newark resident Andrew "Rudy" Limtiaco was driving to his job as a video editor with KTVU Channel 2 about 4:15 a.m. Wednesday when he saw a burning van upside down in the center median on north Interstate 880 near Marina Boulevard.

Linda Ashley and Ana Apodaca Poll both with the "yes" on Measure L campaign in Newark, Calif.

It might seem a little early to be putting together a grocery list for the holidays, but when you're expecting 5,000 guests on Thanksgiving, it's never too early to start planning.

The race for Measure L, the city's proposed utility users tax, is so close that Alameda County Registrar of Voters Dave Macdonald has ordered ballots be counted again, this time by hand.

Election officials on Wednesday still were counting ballots that will determine if city residents will be paying an additional tax on their utility bills.

Newark police are warning residents of a man who tried to lure an 11-year-old boy into his van on Tuesday.

The longest-tenured mayor in the state and second-most senior in the country was heading toward easy re-election to his 15th term.

Teacher Jennifer West was the leading vote-getter in a three-way contest for two seats on the Emeryville City Council in Tuesday's election but the race for second place was too close to call.

On June 30, 1908, the insurance industry dogged a bullet when an explosion leveled miles of forest near the Tunguska River in central Siberia.

A 19-year-old Newark man remained hospitalized Monday after being shot in the head Saturday night during an apparent gang-related incident on Mulberry Street in Newark, while another man also was recovering Monday after being shot six times in a separate incident in Fremont hours later.

In honor of Matt Robinson, a young Lynn native who had passed away this month, two brothers, Michael and Steven a oeSvena Olbash, also from Lynn, performed a concert of sacred art songs and Gregorian chant last Tuesday night, October 20th, at 7:30 pm at the St.

NUMBERED YEARS used to be the time that East Bay residents selected many of their representatives for school boards, city councils and other local offices.

David W. Smith YOWZA! I enjoy serving as your Mayor! Newark has retained that "small town feeling" while blossoming into a progressive city.

VIPColor Technologies , Newark, CA, USA, is now offering a pharmaceutical system that reduces medical errors through the use of color printing with its VIPColor 485e, digital on demand printer linked to dedicated software.

SCHOOL DONATIONS: About a dozen schools in Southern Alameda County recently each received $1,000 grants from Wells Fargo.

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. announced the opening of its newest restaurant in Concord, California on October 19, 2009.

A Newark, Calif., woman and her husband sued drugmaker Bayer in federal court in San Francisco on Monday, saying she suffered a debilitating stroke after taking the company's popular birth control pill Yaz for a month.

I'M WRITING to set the record straight regarding the distortions reported in the media about the city of Newark and the outstanding city employees who provide the essential services - police, fire, park maintenance, street repair, and more - that the community depends on.

Fire Chief Bill Cody, who has been at the helm of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department for the last 4-1/2 years, retired Friday with a brigade of firefighters in full-dress uniforms saluting him as he left the department's headquarters in Pleasanton for the last time.

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake did sizable damage, but experts say there is a 62 percent chance that a far more devastating quake could strike the Bay Area within the next 30 years -- and all that destructive force would come ripping through Palo Alto.