The Alameda Police Department is supporting the Oakland Police Department in their search of a missing Oakland girl.
Daisy Lancaster, 13, was reported missing by Oakland Police Department’s...
The Alameda Police Department is supporting the Oakland Police Department in their search of a missing Oakland girl.
Daisy Lancaster, 13, was reported missing by Oakland Police Department’s...
A passenger on a San Francisco Bay Ferry vessel is presumed dead after jumping into the Oakland-Alameda Estuary Sunday, Aug. 14.
The ferry was on the Oakland & Alameda route traveling...
The Alameda Fire Department deployed several personnel members and equipment to provide aid to weather-related crisis incidents.
AFD announced recently they deployed a water tender and two...
On Thursday, August 4, Alameda Police Department (APD) announced on their Facebook page that an arrest had been made in the homicide of an Alameda woman.
Donovann Sanders, 19, of Tracy,...
A nearly 40-foot-tall steel sculpture has been erected at the Seaplane Lagoon Park at Alameda Point. The highly visible landmark will serve to orient park-goers, as well as visitors and residents...
The Alameda Mystics women’s basketball team lost the inaugural Women’s Premier Basketball Association (WPBA) championship game, 82-80, to the Oakland Swish in overtime Sunday, August 7, at the...
St. Joseph Notre Dame junior Parker Johnson helped lead his Bay 2 Bay (B2B) boys’ youth volleyball team to a ninth-place finish in the 16-and-under Classic Division at the 49th AAU Junior Boys...
Lucian, 10, and Silas Nelson, six, both Edison Elementary students, participated in the Donner Lake Kids Triathlon on Saturday, July 23 at Donner Lake in Truckee, Ca. Both brothers came in 2nd...
The Alameda Women’s Golf Club sponsored a fundraiser for the Alameda Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Thursday, July 28. The “Norma Arnerich and Jack Clark tournament” was renamed this year to add...
The annual cancer research fundraiser, Relay for Life, held its Alameda event Saturday, July 23 from 1 to 10 p.m. at Jean Sweeney Park. The event was sponsored by the American Red Cross of Alameda...
I continue to be surprised at how many parents do not teach their children to participate in responsibilities around the house. We set a model for how our children will be as they grow, and we...
I saw an interview with Merry Clayton. She was a back ground singer in the 60’s. The documentary Twenty Feet From Stardom included much of the work she did. She was a Raylette, when she worked...
Sun Staff Reports
The fall season has begun, and bone-dry drought conditions have made the western United States a tinderbox prime for wildfires. That, combined with the threat of...
Karin Kim Jensen
At the September 21st City Council meeting, the Council authorized the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Alameda Family Services (AFS) to provide...
A few years ago, the font on my email became very tiny. I explored trying to figure out how to change it, and I was unsuccessful. I called my daughter and asked her to help me. She told me to go...
On Friday, July 15, the Tomorrow Youth Repertory (TYR) held its opening night of Heathers The Musical at The Academy of Alameda Auditorium. Five students from Encinal High School (EHS), two actors...
This summer, the Alameda Free Library is hosting “Flashlight Fridays” for children ages 5-12. This program encourages young readers to read silently and independently. Bringing the magic of...
The Alameda Police Department (APD) is holding several days of fishing for children six to 15 years old. APD’s Casting with Cops events will take place Tuesdays and Thursdays between July 19 to...
Girls Inc. of the Island City (GIIC) announced recently that it has hired Sarah Burton as its new CEO.
Burton has 20 years of leadership experience in the non-profit sector and has worked...
Alameda native Michael Proffitt will have his Eagle Court of Honor ceremony on Wednesday, June 29, at the Alameda Elks Lodge 1015 after a two-year delay.
Proffitt, who graduated from St....
Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet, Vice Admiral Daniel Dwyer, will speak at the Centennial of the Aircraft Carrier ceremony aboard the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum Saturday, August 13.
The Canada Goose (Branta Canadensis) is a bird that many of us know well!
Phil Hebda finished first overall out of more than 1,000 participants in the Alameda Fourth of July 5K Race for Midway Shelter last Monday.
The Alameda Sun would like to congratulate the Alameda high school graduate Class of 2022.
The USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum is displaying several exhibits celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage. The three special exhibits are in the Hangar Bay for guests to...
The USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum, in partnership with the Bataan Legacy Historical Society, the Philippine Scouts Heritage Society and the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor...
The USS Hornet Museum is partnering with the Walking Ghosts of Black History to present a special exhibit for Black History Month.
The African American Medal of Honor Winners, Significant...
Smoke still pours from a fire neighborhood east of Park that destroyed much of the Street along Santa Clara and Webb avenues on Jan. 7, 1920. This is a detail of a panorama taken from Webb by an...
A close look at this painting reveals the fence that now defines the entrance to Lincoln Park. The home pictured here was once the residence of R. R. Thompson, who supplied the city with its...
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