Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
SF News Alameda Police Retail-Theft Bust Nets $75,000 In Stolen Merchandise At Oakland Home The February 9 mass robbery of an Old Navy in Alameda was tracked to a house in Oakland, which Alameda police raided, and found $75,000 in merchandise — with the tags still on all of the items.
SF News Alameda Agrees to Pay $11M In Wrongful Death Suit Brought By Family of Mario Gonzalez In a controversial case of a man who died while in custody of Alameda police in 2021, the City of Alameda has agreed to pay $11 million to the man's son in a wrongful death suit.
SF News Entire Cargo Truck Somehow Ended Up Submerged in Water at Oakland Estuary Today in “How did that happen?,” a cargo truck was somehow left completely submerged underwater at the Oakland Estuary. The vehicle has been pulled out, and thankfully no one was inside.
SF News Kids In Alameda Given Fast-Food Sauce Packets as Trick-or-Treating Treats Some jokers in Alameda were just handing out fast-food condiment packages as trick-or-treat candy, according to one puzzled father’s Facebook post.
SF News More Details Emerge In Pleasanton Murder and Dismemberment Case During Preliminary Hearing A judge has ordered a Pleasanton man to go to trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found dismembered on an Alameda shoreline in early August. And we're now learning that he was a Republican advocate for men wrongly accused in the #MeToo movement.
Arts & Entertainment City of Alameda Now Wants Portola Music Festival Shut Down Forever After Second Year of Noise Complaints The inaugural Portola Music Festival last year drew some loud complaints from residents across the Bay in Alameda, when the oontz-oontz music went on later than they liked — which was until 11 p.m. Now, the City of Alameda is taking some action after a second year of complaints.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found on Alameda Shoreline A woman's remains were found near Bay Farm Island Bridge in Alameda; the clerks at a Stockton 7-11 won't be charged for beating a would-be thief; and Bob the Drag Queen is a late replacement for Trixie Mattel at Outside Lands.
SF News Past Warning About Construction of Titanic-Bound Submersible Haunts Alameda Engineer in Wake of Implosion Bay Area deep sea engineer Liz Taylor said she warned OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush years ago against using carbon fiber in the Titan submersible, which imploded and killed five in the deep ocean pressure.
east bay Large Power Outage Affects 50,000 People In East Bay and Leaves Alameda Drawbridge Stuck Half-Open The outage has also affected BART and AC Transit services, as well as stalled passengers going through Oakland Airport.
SF News Someone Slashed Over 200 Car Tires in Alameda Friday Night Hundreds of Alameda residents woke Saturday morning to their cars sitting a bit closer to the ground than they usually would — because some man decided to go on a crime spree, slashing tires around the East Bay city.
SF News Alameda County DA Declines to Charge Alameda Cops In Death of Mario Gonzalez The Alameda police officers implicated in the April 2021 death of Mario Arenales Gonzalez will not face criminal charges, after the Alameda County District Attorney's Office announced a decision Thursday.
SF News Video: Vigilante In Alameda Takes Down Walgreens Shoplifter, Claims 'Citizen's Arrest' A dude who witnessed some brazen shoplifting at a Walgreens store in Alameda on Saturday decided to take matters into his own hands and tackle the guy, claiming citizen's arrest. This probably isn't the answer, dude!
SF News Death of Man In Alameda Police Custody Ruled a Homicide, But Meth Use Was Contributing Factor The April 19 death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez Arenales while being arrested by Alameda police has been ruled a homicide, however his health, methamphetamine use, and alcohol were also contributing factors, according to a newly released autopsy report.
SF News Yet Another Party Decides to Call Itself ‘Ghost Ship,’ Faces Entirely Predictable Backlash An Alameda Halloween techno dance cruise promoter claims they were unaware of the 2016 tragedy that took 36 lives, and initially refused to change the event’s name, but eventually budged after a torrent of outrage.
Arts & Entertainment Rare Corpse Flower Shows Up at Abandoned Gas Station In Alameda, and Residents Line Up for Photos Alameda residents were understandably delighted on Monday when a rare example of an Amorphophallus titanum or corpse flower showed up outside of any museum setting, just in a simple pot at an abandoned gas station for all to see.
SF News Alameda Callers Did Not Use 911 to Report Mario Gonzalez Being Drunk; Civil Rights Attorney Asks AG Merrick Garland to Investigate What were initially reported as two separate 911 calls about an apparently intoxicated but non-threatening man in an Alameda Park last month were actually calls to the city's non-emergency line.
SF News Man Who Was Killed In Alameda Police Custody Had Lost His Job Last Year, Became Depressed and Drank Two weeks after he was killed while in the custody of Alameda police — having apparently asphyxiated while pressed to the ground on his stomach, not unlike George Floyd — we are learning a bit more of the story of Mario Arenales Gonzalez.
SF News Man Who Died While Alameda Police Had Him In Prone Position Compared to George Floyd The April 19 death of Oakland resident Mario Arenales Gonzalez while in the custody of Alameda police has garnered national headlines because it occurred just one day before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd under similar circumstances.
SF News Alameda Coast Guard Nabs 9,000 Pounds of Cocaine in Separate Busts The regional US Coast Guard is tooting its own horn after busting three separate smuggling vessels carrying an estimated $156 million in cocaine.
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Palate Cleanser: ‘Nutcracker’ Ballet On an Alameda Tarmac Drop everything immediately and check out this open-air interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Snowflakes” on an airport tarmac by Post:Ballet.
Arts & Entertainment Keanu Reeves, Already In Town For the 'Matrix 4' Shoot, Had Baskin-Robbins In Alameda OMG. As SFist reported in December, the fourth installment of The Matrix franchise is supposed to be shooting in San Francisco next month. But the production team may already be here and doing stuff in Alameda.
SF News Alameda Landlord Claims She Is Not Greedy As She Attempts To Evict 87-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor A landlord in Alameda has been trying for a year to evict an elderly Holocaust survivor — and previously his terminally ill son, who has now died — reportedly over a $700/month rent hike.
SF News Swastika Flyers Surface In Alameda, Adding To Hate Crime Count A Sunday morning stroll in Alameda turned up a few Swastika-adorned flyers clearly designed to intimidate the Muslim community, and just a few blocks from the Islamic Center of Alameda, as ABC
SF News Body Found Floating In Bay Near Alameda Deemed 'Suspicious' Police have launched a suspicious death investigation after a male body was found floating in the San Francisco Bay this weekend. A spokesperson with the Alameda County Sheriff’s office says that the
