The Chronicle is reporting that Ken Babers, a girls’ basketball coach at Encinal High School, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack.
“He was just a man of absolute integrity,” Micki Singer, the school’s head varsity …

Alameda Point Collaborative chief Doug Biggs shot us an e-mail Monday to ask for your vote to send the collaborative’s Growing Youth Project to the White House.
A Midwestern farming family is heeding the call of …

Mielle Gonzalez’s ordeal began with a rash that lasted for months, her mother, Suzy Clement, says. Not long after she entered kindergarten, in 2007, she developed pain and weakness in her legs that became so …

This past weekend, we got a letter from the county informing us that we were among the 44,000 or so lucky property owners in Alameda County getting a break on our taxes for the coming …

Sad news: Beloved Alameda pediatrician Dr. Robert Butts has died. Butts passed away Friday after a six-month struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 52.
A native of Galesburg, Ill., Butts practiced in Alameda for over a …

Last week we posted an item on the City Council’s plan to ask voters to okay an increase in the property transfer tax, and a fascinating debate over the value of the redevelopment process erupted …

Well folks, it looks like one thing’s a lock for the November ballot: A request from the City Council to increase the property transfer tax – paid by buyers and sellers when a home or …

Today marks the start of candidate filing season. Up for grabs are the two city council seats currently held by Doug deHaan and Marie Gilmore; three school board seats now filled by Bill Schaff (who …

The City Council passed a budget a few weeks ago, but there was one big piece of the process outstanding: Revenue solutions to the city’s ongoing money woes. At the end of June, a polling …

With gas approaching five bucks a gallon and all kinds of other economic fun happening this year, a lot of folks are foregoing the Hawaiian vacation in favor of what the pundits are calling a …

Gay couples have booked up San Francisco’s City Hall since the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage a month ago. But don’t worry about being in a pinch for a wedding spot: …