Lake Chabot

After six days and five long nights, a missing 85-year-old Oakland man was found alive by Oakland police and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department.

A 28-year-old man was charged Thursday for allegedly stabbing to death his father, a 55-year-old park craft specialist with the East Bay Regional Park District.

A woman could face charges after she was found Monday releasing live tilapia into Lake Chabot in an attempt to rescue them from a local market, according to the East Bay Regional Park District.

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Castro Valley’s Redwood Canyon Golf Course resembled a lake on Friday after two inches of rain fell this week and water was released to relieve pressure on two nearby reservoirs.

Outbreaks of toxic algae have prompted swimming bans at Lake Temescal in Oakland and Quarry Lakes in Fremont, according to the East Bay Regional Park District.

Heavy rain and a cold El Niño winter have purged three East Bay swim lakes of toxic algae that flourished in the drought last year and led to swim bans, lost lifeguard jobs and changed vacation plans.

Toxic algae was found in Lake Del Valle near Livermore on Monday, prompting the park district to close the lake to swimming for people and dogs, according to the East Bay Regional Park District.

Lake Anza in Berkeley is closed for swimming due to a bloom of toxic blue-green algae, the East Bay Regional Park District announced Thursday. The lake is the fifth such swimming hole in the park district to be deemed off-limits to people and dogs.

Three dogs reportedly died after coming in contact with blue-green algae in Lake Chabot, according to the East Bay Regional Park District.