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Hayward, Alameda County officials propose Russell City reparations fund
The $900,000 fund would go to living former residents of Russell City, a Black and Latino community that was bulldozed for an ...
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Suspicious box in Socorro found to be no threat
The El Paso Police Department’s Bomb Squad was called out to Socorro at about 5 p.m. Sunday, July 13 when a suspicious box was found near some gas pumps along ...
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Fund proposed to provide payments to wrongfully evicted Russell City residents
FORMER RESIDENTS OF RUSSELL CITY, a once-thriving African American and Latino community on the Hayward shoreline, could soon receive payments for being ...
Plan for homeless shelter in Oakland’s Chinatown dropped after pushback
A city council member called the proposal to convert a hotel into 150 shelter beds ‘institutional racism’ amid concerns over ...
GUEST OPINION: Planned Alameda Ave. changes need to hit the road
If you live in Washington Park — or even just travel along East Alameda Avenue — brace yourself. Months of disruptive ...
After a decade of law enforcement using drones in the Bay Area, Alameda County embraces a next-gen technology
A man in a red hoodie jumped over fences and swiveled through alleys near 165th Avenue in San Leandro, fleeing a suspected ...
150 homeless shelter beds are likely headed to Oakland. Just not in Chinatown.
The area’s council member said placing a shelter near the neighborhood’s “vulnerable residents” would amount to ...