2025 was an especially busy news year for the Alameda Post. Remember when that whale washed up on the shore of Crown Beach on Easter? Or when the historic flying boat, Philippine Mars, landed at its ...

Sharp-tailed sandpiper, a rare visitor to the East Bay, walking at the edge of the water at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary. Photo by Jeff Manker. A few days after I moved to Alameda, I set out on an ...

Global warming or just one more torrid estival romance? At left, a cylindrical roxy glass is filled with a tall ice prism. The icy rectangular prism, with square bases, fits snugly in the cylinder.

On December 8, the Planning Board approved the design, map, and new street names for Phase A of the West Midway housing development, a project that will include 284 new housing units at Alameda Point.

2109 Lincoln Avenue. Listed for $890,000. Longest time before an offer was accepted: 83 days 2048 Starling Lane. Listed on 9/9/25 for $1,059,000. Closed on 12/5/25 for $1,000,000. Shortest time before ...

On December 2, City Council held a workshop about updating the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, which aims to increase affordable housing for low- and moderate-income residents by requiring new ...

The City of Alameda faces an $800 million backlog in deferred maintenance and climate-driven infrastructure needs. On December 2, City Council will hold its final infrastructure needs workshop of a ...

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State Senator Jesse Arreguín issued an email to constituents on Monday, November 10, confirming that the FBI issued a warning that criminals are posing as agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

The novelist Michael Cunningham once observed that everyone’s life is worthy of being a story, told well, with passion, craft and care. Karin K. Jensen, the author of the recently republished The ...

In the last few years, ube desserts and drinks have become social media darlings, garnering attention and likes with their dazzling and bright purple colors. At Alameda’s Filipino Island Fest on ...

"The key to going from a flat, dim picture to a finished image is combining many bad pictures to make one good one," writes Evan Gomez-Shwartz. In the latest installment of his series on ...