Benicia News

A discussion about loud motorcycles dominated Tuesday's Benica City Council meeting, with a downtown resident and a merchant complaining about "rolling thunder" on weekends.

Vallejo's Daniel Glaze and Benicia's Jeanne Steinmann said Tuesday they will not seek re-election for their respective school boards in November.

If you ask library director Diane Smikahl about budget cuts, she may respond in terms of empty bookshelves.

Forty years later, the case of the Zodiac Killer remains unsolved. But San Franciscan Ken Hurst has a theory.

A downed power line at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo appears to have ignited a nine-alarm grass fire that burned for more than six hours Friday night and Saturday morning, a Vallejo assistant fire chief said.

As bubbles blown by children atop a slow-moving fire truck enveloped them, firefighter Explorer Scouts Bryan Allen and Nick Parker gripped their torches and marched down First Street.

One lane of northbound Interstate 680 near the Martinez-Benicia Bridge is blocked due to an accident involving four vehicles and a big-rig which leaked about 10 gallons of fuel on the roadway.

Most bikers cherish the freedom to replace factory-installed mufflers with louder pipes.

The Vallejo Parade Association presents the 156th Vallejo Fourth of July Parade beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Local police traded badges for jogging shorts Thursday for the Special Olympic Torch Run.

A two-alarm fire Friday charred a roasting machine at Bay Area Coffee Inc. in Benicia.

Benicia may soon join other California cities in merging departments to save money.

Benicia school board members are scheduled to vote Monday on a proposed budget for next school year.

Tom Voight can't help but chuckle. The man behind Zodiackiller.com Web site and a guy who has researched every nook and cranny of the unsolved mystery, agreed that the actual killer has died or will die before the interest in him does.

Marti Conger lives a life of pain. If she's lucky, she can muster enough energy to fix her hair in the morning.

A large coffee-roasting machine exploded in a Benicia coffee-making company Friday morning, causing an injury to an employee and a two-alarm fire, a fire captain said.

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. - Corey Ford Dear Gary: My brother-in-law, Eddie, took his toy poodle, Chi Chi, into my backyard for a constitutional.

With the end in sight for this school year's session, Benicia school board president Rosie Switzer said her goal for next year is to keep a "conservative eye" on district funding.

A grass fire that startred above a popular city park on Father's Day burned six acres before firefighters put it out, a fire department spokesman said.

An internationally known artist will lend a hand to a struggling nonprofit on Saturday.