AC Transit Ending Service At 7:30 PM This Week Amid Unrest, Curfews
The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit will be ending bus service at 7:30 p.m. every day through Friday this week.
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The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit will be ending bus service at 7:30 p.m. every day through Friday this week.
Following a weekend of protests, rioting and looting across the Bay Area and the country, Alameda County on Monday became the latest local government to issue a curfew for its residents.
One person was killed and another seriously injured Saturday morning when a car plunged about 400 feet off of Redwood Road near Castro Valley and Upper San Leandro Reservoir, the Alameda County Fire Department said.
Health officials in Alameda County on Friday confirmed that they would not be easing the current coronavirus shelter order as much of California progressed towards Stage 3 reopening, citing a recent spike in COVID-19 cases.
The leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has told pastors and parishioners that reopening churches for worship will be approached in a deliberative manner and that it "will be quite some time" before returning to familiar ways of worship.
Electric automaker Tesla has dropped its lawsuit against Alameda County over the shelter in place order that shuttered its factory in Fremont.
The Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton is the county's only site where residents don't need an appointment to get tested.
So far, the coronavirus shelter-in-place struggle between churches and the state has only produced a lot of heat. But some church leaders are now beginning to add a little light into the discussion about when they may reopen.
Anti-lockdown protests have been sprouting up across the country and California in recent weeks. On Saturday that protest movement came to Livermore.
When the COVID-19 shutdown began, we were "all in this together," but as some businesses like Tesla are allowed to reopen, there is growing resentment among those that can't.
Elon Musk's move to reopen the Tesla plant in defiance of Alameda County's health order doesn't just raise safety concerns; it also raises questions about fairness to other businesses.
Alameda County on Monday announced the addition of four new COVID-19 coronavirus testing sites around the county.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office leveled some pointed criticism of the state's current zero bail policy in a social media post Monday, announcing that a suspect who had been arrested a record seven times during the coronavirus shelter-in-place order now had his bail set at $200,000 after his latest crime.
A planned shut down of southbound I-680 Wednesday afternoon so crews could remove a tanker truck that went through a guardrail and off road after an early morning collision has been completed, according to authorities.
Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District and the Golden Gate Bridge District announced revisions to passenger guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic which would limit the number of riders on buses and ferries to allow for adequate social distancing.
Following increasing reports of coronavirus infections at nursing homes in California and the Bay Area, Alameda and Contra Costa counties have issued an order for all skilled nursing facilities to follow new guidance to stop the spread of the infection.
While the number of coronavirus patients in ICU units across the San Francisco Bay Area dipped on Saturday, the spread of the illness continued with new deaths reported in Contra Costa, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Alameda counties.
Alameda County reactivated a disaster relief fund to help individuals, community-based organizations, first responders and health care workers in need during to the coronavirus pandemic, and is asking for donations.
Berkeley Health Officer Dr. Lisa Hernandez announced Thursday that a resident in their 40s has died of the new coronavirus, the first such death the city has seen so far in the pandemic.
Alameda County has housed some 70 homeless residents in local hotel rooms during the novel coronavirus pandemic with plans for hundreds more, a spokeswoman for the county said Thursday.
There are now three confirmed cases of inmates at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin testing positive for the novel coronavirus, according to Alameda County's Assistant Sheriff.
Alameda County health officials reported 77 new coronavirus cases Saturday, including an inmate being housed at Santa Rita Jail.
The Alameda County Public Defender has condemned actions taken Saturday by the Judicial Council of California he views as dramatically restricting speedy trial rights in California during and after the COVID-19 coronavirus emergency.
Alameda County officials announced two new coronavirus fatalities Saturday during the deadliest day so far in the San Francisco Bay Area since the outbreak began more than two months ago.
Friends and family awakened to the news of the death of Barbara Johnson Hopper, one the first five deaths from COVID-19, in Alameda County. She was 81.
