On Monday, the Chabot Space and Science Center held its 8th annual balloon drop to celebrate New Year's around the world.

It's done, but for a half-decade it will be a bridge to nowhere. See video from inside the Bay Bridge East Span Skyway and read the story.

From Barry Bonds to the Cosco Busan, images from 2007 by our staff photographers.

A vacant lot between Bancroft Avenue and Foothill Boulevard was transformed into a temporary skating rink for children in East Oakland. Watch video and read the story.

For the past 28 years, Tracy's Brighter Christmas charity has provided food and toys for needy families, and Gene Birk has been director since it started.

Two Oakland Zoo tigers were the subject of curiosity on Wednesday, a day after a fatal mauling by a Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo. Watch video and read the story.

This was the first Christmas for Anita Morris without her son Derial Morris, Jr., who was killed more than eight months ago by a bullet shot from a friend's gun. See a slideshow and read the story.

An interactive holiday collage from the Bay Area News Group East Bay photo staff, with music from Oakland's Westlake Middle School.

Russom Mesfun, principal at Montera Middle School in Oakland, has brought new rules and standards to the campus. Watch video and read the story.

They left behind everything for a chance to work in the U.S. At home, these Guatemalan Mayans had family and a beautiful but deeply troubled country. Here, many live lonely existences in the shadows of the society around them.