Benicia News

Whether residents wish to upgrade to weekly recycling service -- despite the added cost -- will be the focus Wednesday of a pair of city workshops.

Like any proud mother, Janine Mozee sees beauty when she looks at her four children.

Benicia school district officials on Thursday presented dozens of staff and community suggestions for meeting a projected $2.4 million budget shortfall in 2010-11. District officials estimate the shortfall could be as large as $3.9 million, but are planning to make at least $900,000 in budget cuts and use about $600,000 from categorical programs to ...

Since living in Benicia, my wife and I have told people that we voted for U.S. Rep.

Open enrollment has begun for a program that could save Benicia residents from $200 to more than $1,000 a year on their energy and water bills, city officials have announced.

A Vallejo planning commissioner is fighting to keep her three dogs from being put down for allegedly attacking two people, including a girl and a pregnant woman.

Community members packed a Benicia Middle School meeting room Tuesday night as school officials sought ideas for combating a projected $2.4 million shortfall next school year.

Benicia school district officials will host a budget forum tonight for residents to share their ideas about shaving a projected $2.4 million from the 2010-11 budget.

A Vallejo taxicab company's bid to serve Benicia with space-based navigation systems is set for City Council consideration tonight.

What does it take to take on city hall? Guts, emotion, passion and the unwavering belief you're right, says Mary Wika, owner of Benicia Coffee Company.

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Valero Energy Corp.'s ongoing financial losses won't affect jobs at its Benicia refinery, a spokesman says.

The luckiest or unluckiest Californian probably lives somewhere near Benicia. That is where an unclaimed lottery ticket worth nearly $800,000 remains unclaimed.

Drivers will soon have to pay higher tolls on most San Francisco Bay area bridges.

Bay Area bridge operators decided today to increase tolls by 25 percent on six spans and introduce congestion pricing on the Bay Bridge with a $6 toll during weekday rush hours.

On average, Vallejo public school teachers are paid nearly $10,000 a year less than their counterparts in other K-12 districts, according to data released by the state last week.

In celebration of their 25th Anniversary, the Benicia Historical Museum will offer a monthly lecture series that is free and open to the public.

Two elderly Benicia residents were rescued from their partially submerged vehicle at about 7 p.m. Thursday, a fire official said.

Melissa Anne Vitug died of leukemia-lymphoma at age 19 in 2007. Melissa Anne Vitug's name isn't as well known as Susan G. Komen's. But just wait, her friends say.

Workers from the Vallejo Public Works Department hustle to remove a storm-downed tree in the 700 block of Carolina Street on Monday.