On May 20, City Manager Jennifer Ott will present an informational report on the City’s workforce vacancies, recruitment and retention efforts, and any barriers to hiring as required by Assembly Bill ...

Grab your helmets! Thursday, May 15 is Bike to Wherever Day, “the Bay Area’s biggest day for bicycling.” Bike to work, bike to school, or just bike around the island to enjoy Alameda’s growing bike ...

Play a new Wordameda word puzzle every day! Guess the correct five-letter Wordameda word by entering your first guess in the top row and tapping ‘Enter.’ You’ll be shown clues after each guess to help ...

As part of our commitment to educate and inform about local history, we have been presenting series of walking tours around Alameda since 2022. Join award-winning Historian Dennis Evanosky for ...

When we last left off, the year was 1939. The last members of the Rich family to live at 1620 Fourth Street—Margaret and Rebecca Rich—had died, so there was some uncertainty about who moved into the ...

A double-crested cormorant showing its breeding crests, orange throat, and aquamarine eyes. Photo Rick Lewis. It took many years of birding before I saw a double-crested cormorant with crests. For ...

Alameda’s dragon boat racing team, the Alameda DragonFlyers, is getting ready to fly all the way to Venice, Italy. Alameda DragonFlyers at Lake Merced in San Francisco. Photo Alameda DragonFlyers / ...

Corduroy is a 10-year-old soft-hearted gentleman who’s seen a lot in life and now just wants a peaceful place to rest his paws. He’s calm, kind, and a little aloof—the kind of dog who’s happy to hang ...

For the past two years, women age 50 and above who live in Alameda and surrounding areas have been coming together to walk with the Alameda 50+ Women’s Walking Group. Born from founder Anna Majors’ ...

The Alameda Children’s Business Fair, organized by Ashley Lorden, was designed to fuel the entrepreneurial spirit of kids and to teach them some fundamental basics of business. The Downtown Alameda ...

Alameda Fire Department (AFD) responded to a commercial structure fire along the Oakland side of the estuary on April 30 at 3 p.m. as part of a Mutual Aid Request to assist the Oakland Fire Department ...

On May 12, the Planning Board will hold a public workshop on a Research & Development facility proposed by Pacific Fusion, which aims to build a 225,500-square-foot headquarters at Alameda Point to ...