Officials in the East Bay county are moving to extend its “urban limit line,” a key policy that has protected its farm fields ...

New details in the 1990 murder of Maria Weidhofer in California’s Bay Area are emerging, leading police to a Curry County man ...

Despite recognizing the district’s struggling financial realities, approving the proposed cuts was a challenging decision for ...

The suspect, 48-year-old Frank Dean Hurtado, was arrested Feb. 20 at the trailer where he lives on the 200 block of Lincoln ...

Areas of Orinda, Richmond, Moraga, San Pablo, Lafayette, Antioch, Clayton, El Cerrito, Brentwood, Danville, Concord, and ...

One person died after a house fire broke out in Concord on Wednesday night, the Contra Costa County Fire Department said.

A Vallejo man was charged in connection with serial Lego theft across several Bay Area Target stores, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office said.  Michael Ivory Fletcher, a 32-year-old ...

A dozen East Bay cities in Contra Costa County have areas that fall into the "very high fire hazard severity" category, according to new maps released this week by the Office of the State Fire Marshal ...