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A man who was fatally shot while trying to sell a cell phone to someone at a busy intersection in unincorporated San Leandro on Saturday afternoon was identified by an Alameda County sheriff's spokesman Monday as 32-year-old Daniel Carlos of Redwood City.
With an alarmingly high number of truant students in Alameda County, officials are taking a tough-love approach toward parents whose kids miss too many school days.
The city of Oakland is opening winter shelters starting Monday to address the needs of homeless people in the upcoming cold weather months.
Inmate rights activists told an Alameda County Board of Supervisors committee Thursday that they're concerned about the conditions at the county's two jails.
The city of Oakland is making changes to its emergency alert system in the wake of the North Bay wildfires.
Alameda County is fighting high housing prices with a unique new program to help people get into a house or apartment.
An intense fire roared through a mobile home in San Leandro early Thursday, killing the couple who lived there.
Officers and emergency crews attempted to render the man first aid, however he was pronounced dead at the scene.
While they are not among the items sold at local 'safe and sane' fireworks stands, local firefighters warned residents who have purchased illegal fireworks to check to make sure they are not a brand that has been recalled.
Alameda County is lending small indoor air monitors to families who have had an emergency room visit in the past six months due to asthma.
A shooting near Hayward Tuesday evening has left two people in critical condition.
California's system of pretrial detention and arbitrarily-decided bail unfairly punishes poor people, and may be violating human rights law.
Nearly two dozen Chihuahuas, held as evidence for nearly a year pending resolution of a court case, are up for adoption in the East Bay.
Among the many concerns facing Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea when the order was given to evacuate areas near the Oroville Dam spillway was what to do with more than 500 inmates in the county jail.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved $750,000 in funding for support and defense of immigrant and refugee populations Tuesday.
In Alameda County, computer problems that are so bad some people are being wrongfully arrested.
Alameda County sheriff's deputies are helping search for an inmate who escaped from out-of-state law enforcement deputies in Hayward Tuesday morning.
An 18-year-old Tracy woman is missing and feared dead after her car plunged into rain-swollen Alameda Creek in Niles Canyon Saturday
The CPUC expects that available numbers in the 510 area code will be exhausted by June 2019.
A number of mudslides in Fremont have closed down state Highway 84, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Alameda County Superior Court clerks' office hours are being reduced starting Tuesday as a result of a sizable budget deficit.
On Friday, the first lawsuits were filed in connection with the deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland that left dozens dead from smoke inhalation.
A heated fight in Alameda County is pitting dirt-bike enthusiasts against wildlife advocates as county officials sue to put the brakes on a major expansion to an off-road park.
Challenger Ro Khanna appeared poised to unseat 8-year incumbent Mike Honda for the 17th Congressional District.
The abandoned car of a missing Alameda County Sheriff's Department volunteer has been found near Highway 880 in Hayward.
