On a dreary rainy day, running on a slippery, muddy course at Hayward High School, with the runners finishing the race covered in mud, the Lamorinda boys and girls cross country teams had a stellar ...

Procedure became the story at the Nov. 5 Orinda City Council meeting as council members were excused (Glazer), recused (Severson), and briefed on policy prior to the hearing of a proposal to replace ...

Contra Costa County Supervisor Candace Andersen not only voted against a 33 percent pay increase for the county supervisors at the Nov. 4 board meeting, she eschewed taking all but a 4 percent raise ...

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District recently hired a new facilities manager, Wendy Riley, whose to-do list leads off with Lafayette's fire station 16. Fire Chief Jeff Carman immediately ...

Imagining herself bereft of life's purpose, Diana Lorence found peace, passion and paradise in a tiny, 12-foot-square house. And then, after seven years spent living in the home lit only by a fire ...

Representatives of Pacific Gas and Electric met with 25 members of the Lost Valley Association recently to help clarify the look of the the Moraga Substation located at the entrance to Lost Valley in ...

For the second year in a row Stanley Middle School 7/8 grade varsity boys won the East Bay Middle Schools Varsity Cross Country League Championships Nov. 3 at Kennedy Grove Park. The varsity 7/8 girls ...

Local voters re-elected a pair of incumbents and one newcomer to the Acalanes Union High School District board of directors on Election Day Tuesday. Incumbents Nancy Kendzierski garnered 19,566 votes ...

Major fires the last Sunday of October pushed the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District to its limits and caused the evacuation of thousands of residents in Lafayette, all part of possibly the ...

Unlike in the U.S. presidential race, there was no drawn out, nail-biting drama in the Nov. 3 election of Lamorinda fire agency directors, with one race redefining the term "landslide." The closest ...

With a streak of 16 straight years making it to the post-season, (17 in total), a No. 5 seed the last two years in the NCAA tournament along with five West Coast Conference Coach of the Year honors, ...

It's been six months since Jeff Cammon was named the Saint Mary's women's basketball coach, so on Oct.15, he held an open practice for the team's fans to show "the energy in the gym and the ...