Here is the full story from Sheriffs Sgt. J.D. Nelson about the shooting / robbery at Boulevard Burger in Castro Valley on June-14-2013. Thank you for watching and supporting CVTV & CVN.

The 2013 Gallery of Graduates is taking form! We want to honor each and every local student who is graduating this year. Your are our future and we are immensely proud of all that it is your bring to our community.

Welcome to the very first episode of the Pampered Pets Vlog! You asked the questions on Castro Valley News Facebook page and our friends, Groveway Veterinary Hospital, have all the answers for you:

Rigatoni's was an easy pick for my second review because every time I have eaten there it has been really tasty and I was in the mood for pasta!

The parking situation near Rigatoni's is not the easiest place to get lucky finding parking—so unfortunately—we had to circle the village a few times to find a spot.

When you walk in to this restaurant, you face a big menu to choose from filled with a good variety of different pasta, salad and poultry dishes. I ordered the Broccoli Chicken Rigatoni and my dining partner Lindsay ordered the Manicotti dish.

More than 50 programs and activities have been scheduled by the Castro Valley library for kids for this year's kids Summer program beginning June 10.

Program highlights include movies on Tuesdays, entertainers and musicians on Wednesdays, "hands on" presenters on Thursdays and "Maker Mondays" that includes making duct tape wallets, a safety glasses and marshmallow shooter and the first Annual "Egg Drop Device Competition".

The cost at spigots and faucets could increase double digits as officials with the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) consider rate increases of over the next two years. "We have been doing everything we can to get expenditures down and we have to make some tough decisions," said Frank Mellon ...

Pete's ACE Hardware in Castro Valley won a 2013 Stop Waste Business Efficiency Award in May, for their outstanding achievements in waste reduction and business efficiency, and in particular their collection of spent batteries and spent fluorescent bulbs and tubes from the public.

A lot of people ask my advice on how to write a book.

Usually at the end of the conversation I feel like I’ve failed them, like there’s a secret to writing they thought I’d reveal to them, as if writers were magicians were something.

I think deep down they think there’s some sort psychological hack writers have that we use to write.  Sure, there are tricks you learn, but they’re not the ones people tend to think of: the muse, all that crap.

When you walk into the "big red barn" restaurant you feel like you are entering your friends home and their mom is sweating in the kitchen making your favorite dish. This is a "pull up a seat and hangout" kind of place with comfortable booths and tables. Whenever I visit, I prefer a booth.

In case you missed it last week, our planet has reached a milestone. After years of steady acceleration, carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere have hit 400 parts per million (ppm). When researchers began tracking CO₂ levels in 1958, the level was 313 ppm. Since then, that number has continuously risen. While scientists say there is nothing particularly special about 400 ppm, it serves as  psychological threshold, leaving us unable to ignore how fast CO₂, which drives global warming, is increasing on Earth.