At its Monday night meeting, the Albany City Council approved four strategic themes for the city: more park and open space; vital and inviting business area; more help for walking, biking and climate protection; and engage diverse community.
Occupy the Farm activists have issued a call to "Re-Occupy the Farm!" this weekend, May 18 and 19, at the UC lot in Albany that they occupied last weekend before being evicted by UC Berkeley police on Monday.
UC Berkeley officials on Wednesday chastised the urban-farm activists from Occupy the Farm for an "illegal and misguided occupation" of a UC-owned lot next to University Village over the weekend.
Early this morning, Monday, UC Berkeley police evicted the urban-farm activists who on Saturday occupied a UC-owned lot next to University Village in Albany. One person was arrested for failing to comply with police instructions.
The May 9 meeting of the city's Parks and Recreation Commission has been canceled.
As part of a plan to end homelessness in Albany, the city council directed the Albany Police Department to begin enforcement of a no-camping ordinance as of October, 2013.
Albany, being but 105 years old, doesn't often have occasion to celebrate sesquicentennials, but it will May 6 when the City Council considers a proclamation honoring the 150-history of Saint Mary's College High School.
Albany High School parents Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
A provisional agreement has been announced that would settle a lawsuit by Albany Strollers & Rollers and Carbon Neutral Albany challenging the Albany City Council's approval of UC Berkeley's development plan for University Village.
With Whole Foods having pulled out of UC Berkeley's development plan for University Village in Albany, the campus has now proposed a Sprouts Farmers Market instead. A public unveiling of the proposal takes place May 8.
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The county hopes to create an app that makes government more transparent and accessible at an event this Saturday. The winner will receive $3,000.
Plot your May 4 garage sale shopping in advance.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Tuesday asking Sheriff Greg Ahern to stop participating in a federal program that has led to the deportation of nearly 2,000 county residents.
The long debated and much revised plan to replace the existing Safeway on Solano Avenue in Albany with a bigger Safeway and some third-party retail is no longer in Safeway's plans, according to a Safeway spokeswoman.
The bus service planned to raise fares by 15 cents this summer, but AC Transit staff say that could actually cause revenues to drop.
The Senate bill would require websites to remove personal information upon request of users.
Here's what happened at the April 15 meeting of the Albany City Council.
"Eighty percent of success is goats."—Woody Allen (from "Quotes with Goats")
The Albany City Council is expected to approve a new Memorandum of Understanding with the city's police union when it meets tonight.
Albany's public access channel, KALB Channel 33, produced this video on updating the city's General Plan.
The closure is due to construction of the Buchanan/Marin Bikeway Project.
The Albany Planning and Zoning Commission will look at potential regulations for the keeping of goats within the city at tonight's meeting.
City of Albany staff propose to use a house next to the Senior Center for expanded senior programs and a new home for the after-school teen program, whose current Memorial Park site would house an expanded after-school elementary program.
The first phase of development for the new park alongside I-80 got a thumbs-up from the Albany City Council this week.
State Senator Loni Hancock and Assemblymember Nancy Skinner have asked five public agencies to summarize their findings on the fire's causes and effects.
Assemblyember Nancy Skinner till present her proposed legislation to the state Assembly's public safety committee on Tuesday, April 2.
Work on a sewer replacement project is scheduled April 5-23.
A draft plan for the first phase of the planned Pierce Street Park in Albany will go before the City Council on April 1. The first phase is estimated to cost $632,819, according to the staff report.
Only four members of the public attended a recent Bay Area Rapid Transit District meeting on fare increases. New board members say the 9 a.m. meeting time is one reason why.
Web servers are being upgraded, and public access to the City of Albany website may be interrupted for seeral hours.
A San Francisco Chronicle column tally of the pay and benefits for Alameda County Administrator Susan Muranishi has caused quite a stir. What do you think?
Folks who are interested in getting a weekly "behind the scenes" look at the City's departments should sign up for the classes by Thursday, March 28.
Kristin Perry, one of the women whose case is being heard before the Supreme Court today, is a former Albany resident.
Anticipated delays of up to 20 minutes will begin tonight, could last for 14 months, BART officials say.
Also on the agenda for Wednesday's meeting, which starts a half hour earlier than usual: a pink business sign and design review for 1600 Solano Ave.
A proposal to knock down a prominently located house on Solano Avenue on the Albany-Berkeley border and replace it with a two-story dental-retail complex is scheduled to go before the Albany Planning Commission this week.
Local businesses will collect a 9.5 percent sales tax — a half-center increase — starting next month.
Reader Amber Whitson wants to know why has the Albany Police Department stopped posting the police logs on the City website.
Faced with the upcoming loss of its half-time fire chief, the Albany City Council voted Monday night to recruit a full-time chief, while at the same time eliminating the second-in-command, the battalion chief, as a sworn position.