Oakland may impose restaurant plastic straw limit
OAKLAND — Bars and both fast-food and dine-in restaurants in the city would not give out single-use plastic straws unless requested under a proposed ordinance. The plastic straw limit is an effort to...
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Piedmont High students paint to help Ugandan orphans
PIEDMONT — Seventeen Piedmont High School students joined forces with the Piedmont nonprofit organization Brighter Brains Institute to bring smiles to the faces of Ugandan orphans. The students, all...
View ArticleBerkeley law requires council approval of surveillance tech
BERKELEY — A groundbreaking Berkeley city ordinance requires the city’s use of surveillance technologies such as surveillance cameras, license-plate readers and cellphone trackers to be approved by the...
View ArticleLetter: Fake women’s health centers shouldn’t have the right to lie
Fake women’s health centers shouldn’t have the right to lie This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for NIFLA v Becerra, a historical case for California’s Reproductive FACT Act, determining...
View ArticleGolden Gate Bridge toll-taking device unveiled
Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report weekday newsletter. Design concepts for a new piece of landscape-changing hardware for the Golden...
View ArticleLetter: Is perfect equality the enemy of good justice?
Is perfect equality the enemy of good justice? After reading the column by Victor Hanson titled “Spread of progressivism a race for perfect equality and no rules” (March 8) and then watching “Doctor...
View ArticleTwo-alarm fire at asphalt plant controlled in Berkeley
BERKELEY — A two-alarm fire at the Berkeley Asphalt Co. has been extinguished, officials said. The fire was reported 9:41 a.m. today in the 600 block of Virginia Street, officials said. Berkeley...
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Bay Area job market reaches record-high levels again
The Bay Area job market surged to record peaks of employment in February, fueled by robust tech hiring in the East Bay and South Bay, state labor officials reported Friday. During February, the Bay...
View ArticleHome sale prices in Alameda County, March 23
4348 Second St., Pleasanton; $1.53 million; 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms in 1,737 square feet; built in 1910 on 0.28 acres; Craftsman located near downtown has vintage details throughout, such as high...
View ArticleBerkeley: Motorists advised to avoid Hearst Avenue after rollover accident
BERKELEY — Police and fire officials are asking motorists to avoid Hearst Avenue and Highland Place after a rollover accident. The announcement was sent out at 12:44 p.m. No injuries were reported in...
View ArticleCoast Guard cutter seizes $78 million in cocaine, returns to Alameda
ALAMEDA — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf returned to their homeport of Alameda on Wednesday after they seized cocaine worth an estimated $78 million during a patrol in the Eastern Pacific...
View ArticleMoratorium on Oakland rent control exemption extended
OAKLAND — A moratorium on what some are calling a loophole to Oakland’s rent control ordinances is being extended another six months as city officials figure out a permanent solution. Before the...
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Three students in custody, one found with firearm at Arroyo High School
SAN LORENZO — Three students have been detained by sheriff’s deputies at Arroyo High School after reports of a handgun prompted a school lockdown on Friday. Officials placed Arroyo High School on...
View ArticleMan charged in fatal shooting outside Oakland Jack-in-the-Box
OAKLAND — An ex-convict has been charged in the fatal shooting last October of a longtime friend outside an East Oakland Jack-in-the-Box where he had asked the victim to meet him, according to police...
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Candidate will try to unseat Alameda County judge, alleges misconduct
OAKLAND — The challenger to an Alameda County Superior Court judge’s seat on the bench is accusing the judge of being disrespectful of jurors and defendants, commingling of funds and general bad...
View ArticleTwo charged with robbery, felony evasion in San Leandro purse snatching
SAN LEANDRO — Two men were arrested Monday after a 67-year-old woman was robbed of her purse, police said. The pair fled police in a vehicle, then crashed after police cut off the chase, officials...
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Opinion: Don’t use Ghost Ship fire to justify police militarization
The Ghost Ship fire was an enormous tragedy that still feels like a very fresh collective trauma for the Bay Area community. But Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern used it a few weeks ago to forward...
View ArticleAlameda: After 30-plus years, Joe King signs off with final thoughts
On April 10, 1987, this column was launched along with the Alameda Journal’s first edition. My 30-plus years of ensuing efforts hopefully combined enough educational subjects, human insights and bits...
View ArticleSan Francisco March for our Lives protesters rip NRA, call for gun bans
SAN FRANCISCO – Owen Pontoriero came to a raucous protest here Saturday with a simple cardboard sign taped to a small tree branch: Melt The Guns. It was one of a sea of signs waving across Civic Center...
View ArticleAround Pleasanton: Amador wind ensemble to play NYC’s Carnegie
Amador Valley High School’s Wind Ensemble students are now familiar with the following old 1950’s joke, often attributed to comedian Jack Benny: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice,...
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