Fairview, California

Thalia Soto, 17, for X-press Yourself is a Senior at Johansen High School. December 17, 2008.

Commuter: It's California state law that gas stations provide free water and air.

The center is one of three buildings that make up the Fairview Corporate Center.

An effort to refurbish five Hayward schools began this week with the first in a planned series of design meetings and field trips to help committee members decide what the new facilities should look like.

Every Wednesday afternoon, Jeff Grow takes a paratransit bus from his home in Richmond to a pocket of ranchland nestled among single-family homes in the Fairview hills.

Walking past pruned branches lying on some dead grass this week, longtime Fairview resident Mary Case summed up the sentiments many neighbors share: "Welcome to Massacre Hill." Earlier this month, on orders ...

HOLLISTER The city has reached agreement with Award Homes on reimbursement amounts for traffic improvement costs related to the 667-unit West of Fairview development.

If voters in November approve a regional parks bond, projects in the greater Hayward area will get a chunk of the $500 million in land purchase and preservation funds authorized by the measure.

When it comes to elective office, the slogan seems to be ''the more the merrier'' for at least two candidates on the November ballot.

The nomination period closed Friday for many, but not all, of the races on Alameda County's Nov.

One San Lorenzo leader suggests that his community, like most of the nine other urban unincorporated areas, has been studied to death.

As part of a Kelly Hill reunion last weekend, past and present residents of that area paid tribute to slain journalist Chauncey Bailey, who lived there as a teen and graduated from Hayward High.

Thanks to a public petition, a popular water-and-sand play area at Castro Valley Community Park - which was closed July 7 because of a state drought and regional water rationing - will likely be reopened next ...

Hayward Unified School District's first school bond in more than 40 years just got even better.

Past and present residents of Kelly Hill remember the Hayward neighborhood as a tight-knit, safe - some say idyllic - community where families knew each other across generations, and where children growing up ...

The County of Santa Barbara, along with the cities of Santa Barbara and Goleta, sent out a list at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 5, of places where that the public can access maps and information about the Gap Fire.

ROAD CLOSURES: Paseo Cameo at Patterson, Dorado Drive at Cathedral Oaks, Kellogg Avenue north of Cathedral Oaks Road, Patterson Avenue north of Cathedral Oaks Road, San Marcos Road north of Cathedral Oaks Road, ...

Fire Now Burning on Three Fronts; Threatens to Cross Highway 154. Friday, July 4, 2008 Is it possible to imagine how much a community could be turned upside down in just 48 hours? Just two days ago I was in Big ...

Exactly one year after the "Catholic Tidings" issued its initial edition from a small office on New High Street in Los Angeles, a priest from Belgium celebrated the first Mass for the few Catholic families in ...