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Interesting and popular stories from the third quarter of 2023 As 2023 draws to a close, we are looking back at some of the stories we published about Alameda this year. We will be publishing a ...

September 21 & 29, 2024 – Portola Avenue and Burbank Street September’s tours, the last of the Post’s “baker’s dozen,” will also include a walk through “Craftsman-style heaven” along palm-tree-lined ...

While many people think of Lake Tahoe as California’s largest freshwater lake, that honor actually belongs to Clear Lake. Although Lake Tahoe is actually larger in terms of area and volume, it does ...

Just outside of Fallon, Nevada, Sand Mountain appears at the end of this road. From the Bureau of Land Management site: “Created by the migration and deposition of windblown sand as it is stopped by ...

Alameda is fortunate to have 100% renewable electricity provided by Alameda Municipal Power —geothermal, hydroelectric, wind power, and landfill gas. Meanwhile, natural gas use in buildings accounts ...

Way out in the California desert, near the Nevada border, is a place called Scotty’s Castle. The fact that it is not really a castle and was not built or owned by Scotty only adds to the mystery of a ...

The City of Alameda has halted the 'cloud brightening experiment' conducted on the USS Hornet. Ken Der explains that the experiment—designed to investigate cloud reflectivity and climate change—was ...

For several years, the Fruitvale train bridge has hosted nesting peregrine falcons, often successfully raising their young. Last year, the pair fledged three chicks, two females and one male, which ...

A fork in the road At this point, we could have backtracked on Highway 50 to take the most efficient route home, perhaps with some stops to see things we had missed on the way out. A more exciting ...