All for Fall, a month-long promotional campaign conducted during October, raised almost $5,000 for four area nonprofits.

Southern California’s powerful Imperial Irrigation District voted late Tuesday 3-2 to ink an agreement with federal and state officials that could yield as much as $250 million for Salton Sea restoration projects in exchange for not using another 250,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water.

Through Oakland nonprofit Civicorps, the 27-year-old Hayward resident was placed into the inaugural Community Trainee Program at East Bay Municipal Utility District, a unique one-year pilot program that hires trainees from partnering workforce development agencies that serve underutilized population

The multi-year project at 14 sites over 1.6 miles will create floodplains and seasonal wetlands — in short, a more natural habitat for steelhead and other wildlife.

The East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors last week unanimously voted to accept $3 million from the state to build the first staging area and visitor center in Concord for the new Thurgood Marshall Regional Park - Home of the Port Chicago 50.