An estimated 38,000 African immigrants live in the Bay Area, but creating any kind of service that caters to all of them, or merges their collective clout, has always seemed an impossible challenge to those who have tried.
A gritty and graffitied stretch of San Lorenzo Creek just above Foothill Boulevard is in the midst of an overhaul, with construction crews laying down a footpath, stairs and observation platforms for scenic-minded pedestrians.
Castro ValleyVictim killed in freeway crash: A man was killed in a car crash Saturday morning on eastbound Interstate 580 in Castro Valley, according to authorities.
Former San Leandro resident Matthew Hoy says he plans to sue San Leandro police over the shooting death of his girlfriend's dog on Memorial Day weekend.
BART police Sgt. Gerald Dominguez does not think he did anything amazing. In his eyes, he was just doing his job when he rescued a man who was hanging off an elevated train platform.
Gale Choffin celebrates friends and family with horse races named especially for them. The Tracy resident is one of dozens of locals who have signed up to sponsor a race this year — part of an increasingly popular, three-year-old program at the Alameda County Fair.
The East Bay district is the largest in the nation, encompassing all of Alameda and Contra Costa counties and including 65 parks and more than 98,000 acres and 1,150 miles of trails
With its economy on the rocks, unemployment figures spiking, and budget gridlock in Sacramento, California feels in some ways like a dreamboat that has run aground.
Independent gas stations are in a fight for their lives. Not only are gasoline sales down 8 to 10 percent in California over the past year, the sour economy is making many people think twice about those spur-of-the-moment snack purchases that are the lifeblood of the convenience stores attached to those gas stations.
As the state continues its downward spiral amid struggles to close a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Alameda County's judicial system is beginning to feel the effects of more than 100 potential job cuts.
Police say a developmentally disabled teen entered an 11-year-old girl's bedroom in the middle of the night this week and began fondling her feet before being scared off when the girl woke up.
