Alameda County

An East Bay couple is making a difference by putting their federal government stimulus money to good use.

​​​​​​​San Leandro police released body-cam footage Wednesday of a deadly shooting by police that killed a man armed with a baseball bat inside a Walmart store.

Alameda County Fire is asking members of the public to avoid the area while crews at the scene transfer the ethanol from the crashed tanker to another. 

51-year-old Anthony Leon Saldana of Hayward is the city's sixth homicide of 2020.

At Girls Garage in Berkeley a group of young women have joined the battle against the pandemic.

An Alameda mother of three is candidly sharing what it’s been like as a COVID-19 patient recovering from home, and opening up about her experience -- from the surprising diagnosis, to having the rest of her family tested.

Questions swirled Monday over whether San Leandro police were justified in fatally shooting a man with a baseball bat inside a Walmart store.

Kaiser Permanente broke ground on a COVID-19 testing site that when finished, will process upwards to 70,000 tests each week.

Police responded just after 7 p.m. Saturday to the intersection of Maritime Street and Middle Harbor Road, within the Port of Oakland, where police Officer Johnna Watson said approximately 100 vehicles, and an unknown number of spectators, had gathered.

Those crossings were fouled when six cars of a UP freight train - three empty tank cars and three refrigerated boxcars - derailed at about 1:45 p.m. Sunday just south of the Powell Street bridge over the tracks.

Police say they don't know why the man was wielding the bat or why he refused to put it down.

This comes at a time where six Bay Area counties will require people to cover their faces when going to essential businesses, doing essential work or taking public transportation.

The category with the largest increase is commercial burglary, which is up 133 percent from the same period in 2019, averaging two incidents daily compared to less than one a day at the same time last year.