A dispute between Alameda’s firefighters and city officials over what firefighters believe may have been a unilateral and illegal move on the city’s part to shrink their future colleagues’ retiree medical and dental benefits is …

Item 6-E of the City Council’s agenda seemed like it should be a relatively mundane agenda item on refinancing bonds for street improvements, landscaping and storm drainage. But on Tuesday night it turned into a …

Alameda’s City Council is set to consider a sweeping new campaign finance ordinance that would cap contributions to candidates for city offices, make donor information publicly available on the city’s website and impose criminal and …

Representatives from SunCal have told city officials that they intend to negotiate for the right to use a state affordable-housing law to implement the developer’s original plan for Alameda Point – a move that could …

By Ani Dimusheva
It’s round three for the Master Street Tree Plan at the City Council meeting tonight. After two presentations to the Planning Board and several working sessions with interested citizens, Public Works is moving …

Alameda golfers are teed off about a fresh proposal to close the Mif Albright nine-hole golf course at the end of the month, which was announced on New Year’s Eve and will be considered by …

The City Council and the School Board are holding a special joint meeting at 7 p.m. this Tuesday, January 5 to talk about development at Alameda Point. And important note: They’ll be at Mastick Senior …

Okay, now that I’ve (almost) recovered from Tuesday night’s six-hour council marathon, let me catch you up on a few other, non-fire-related things that happened.
Boys and Girls Club: The council decided Tuesday night to make …

Tuesday night marks another chapter in the page-turning saga that is the Boys and Girls Club’s $2 million WW request, with Councilwoman Marie Gilmore asking her fellow dais-mates to push the club’s request for money …

The City Council has got a lot of biggish things on its plate this coming Tuesday – so much that I couldn’t pick just one to talk about. (Well, I could. You’ll hear about that …

Ah, there are precious few things that this writer truly enjoys in life. A dinner with friends. A perfectly brewed cup of coffee. A crisp fall day. And a City Council meeting that ends before …