Alameda County News

The state-of-the-art REACH Ashland Youth Center celebrated its grand opening Wednesday afternoon after a decade-long, youth-driven effort to improve the neighborhood.

The body of a 73-year-old man who walked away from his Alameda home Wednesday morning was found floating in the estuary off the Grand Street boat marina a few hours later, police said.

Diantay Powell, 18, pleaded not guilty to killing two teenage girls during an adolescent lovers' quarrel last year, but two close friends and one acquaintance all said he did it, evidence presented during a preliminary hearing revealed.

The people of San Leandro have made history and San Leandro Hospital will remain open for the foreseeable future.

Monterey County supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a contract with Alameda County to house up to 80 local jail inmates in a facility in Dublin, at a cost of up to $2.5 million, despite a request from the American Civil Liberties Union that the county hold community meetings first.

A third-grade teacher at an Alameda County elementary school faces dozens of charges related to inappropriate behavior with his students.

Alameda County Sheriff's deputies and Oakland police are searching for two armed and dangerous men who reportedly ran from a stolen vehicle they crashed during a chase in the Fruitvale district on Monday evening, authorities said.

Festivities surrounding the Amgen Tour of California Race were brought to a temporary halt by a bomb scare in downtown Livermore yesterday afternoon.

Hundreds of children and young adults poured through the turnstile at the REACH Ashland Youth Center each day last week as sunshine poured through the windows of the long-sought after complex.

A longshoreman at the Port of Oakland was killed Friday after his truck plunged into the bay, according to authorities.

Even the though the 2014 election season in Oakland is over a year away that doesn't preclude potential candidates from starting early.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is investigating an officer-involved shooting on westbound Interstate Highway 580 near Castro Valley that occurred late Thursday night, deputies said.

An expanded menu. A new wine market. New services. And a new name. All of that in the same building at Central Avenue and Oak Street that had been known as Angela's Bistro.

A 59-year-old man who was struck and killed by a train Wednesday near San Lorenzo High School has been identified.

The Pleasanton Antiques and Collectibles Faire has been called an "antique lover's dream." It is a phrase I can relate to, since I've unearthed my share of treasures at this well-attended extravaganza that takes place twice a year, in May and October.

A Hayward man has been arrested in connection with an officer-involved shooting outside the Department of Motor Vehicles in Hayward last week, police said Thursday.

A UC Berkeley graduate student faces up to 12 years in prison after pleading no contest to vehicular manslaughter for killing his girlfriend and her 6-year-old son by crashing into a tree last year while intoxicated.

A judge on Wednesday ordered that a diagnostic study be conducted for a Livermore high school teacher who pleaded no contest to nine felony counts for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old male student from December 2010 to May 2011.

The public got a look Tuesday at plans for a 12-mile toll lane on westbound Interstate 580 from Livermore to Dublin and Pleasanton.

A motorcyclist who collided with an SUV Monday on a residential street north of Concannon Boulevard has died, according to a spokeswoman at the Alameda County Coroner's office.