San Leandro News

Julie Quayle's cozy cottage behind her home is certifiably green. When Quayle decided to build the 450-square-foot cottage, she set out to keep the structure's carbon footprint as light as possible.

Quadribaric technology, embedded into PX-300 energy recovery devices, is expected to offer lower operating pressures and higher efficiencies for large desal plants.

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.

A group of former Oakland Raiders will take on members of the San Leandro Police Department in a charity basketball game beginning at 5 p.m. Sunday at Chabot College.

A key transportation committee is considering raising tolls by at least $1 on the Bay Area's seven state-owned bridges next year, but the proposal doesn't seem to be generating much controversy as only five people spoke at a public hearing on the subject on Wednesday.

A crossing guard program for some San Leandro schools is set to return after being axed during the summer as the city closed a $9 million budget deficit.

The H1N1 flu vaccine is being given out right now at one school in San Leandro. This week the district is making the vaccine available to all students, but will it be enough and is everyone being served with, or without, insurance? The San Leandro School District has secured 2,100 doses, but of course it will not be enough since there are 8,500 ...

Board Appointee Must Commit to Save San Leandro Hospital, Say Local Nurses, as They Encourage Public to Make Community Heard What Patients, seniors, nurses, and doctors from San Leandro and across the East Bay will gather at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Eden Township Healthcare District Board this Tuesday, where the board will consider ...

Crews worked Saturday to clean up fuel leaked into San Francisco Bay and care for a dozen birds one day after an oil tanker spilled hundreds of gallons into the water.

School board members are asking the community for suggestions on naming the new ninth-grade campus scheduled to open in fall 2010.

A 21-year-old El Cerrito man was sentenced to 21 years in state prison Wednesday for fatally shooting a San Leandro man riding in a Hell's Angels convoy traveling through Marin County last year.

Everything is so clean and fresh after the sweeper's visit. It is a small service that brings big rewards.

Oakland police are examining which cities drivers are from who participate in sideshows as part of a crackdown on the high-speed driving activity.

Doug Siden, Alameda resident and East Bay Regional Park District board member, was honored recently with an Individual Citation of Merit.

SAN LEANDRO Step by step. That's how the San Leandro Sports Foundation hopes to support athletic programs that continue to be affected by education budget cuts.

Federal authorities have charged 18 Bay Area residents in connection with a sophisticated marijuana growing operation spread among 50 homes in the Central Valley, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

After years of fighting, Dorota Lamoree rejoiced Tuesday upon learning that an immigration ordeal that began with her husband's tragic 2005 death was over.

The face of homelessness in the Tri-Valley often looks a lot like the family who used to live down the block.

San Leandro police are searching for a 39-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend at a Chevy's Restaurant in the city earlier this week.

Valerie Killingsworth, left, of San Leandro, holds a sign and her daughter Kiara Lynch, 16, holds a picture of their niece and cousin, respectively, Alana Williams, 11, as motorists stop by during a memorial at 64th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Oct.