Byron News

Susannah Meyer, left, coordinator for the Friendly Visitors Program, views recently purchased Kindle Touch devices with Brentwood Library Manager Liz Fuller.

Antioch, Oakley and Pittsburg libraries are in the process of scheduling these for the week of Feb.

For the first time in five years, Contra Costa County will make no general budget cuts and may even have a little extra to restore lost deputies and prosecutors.

"She had a love of music," said Thomas Derthick. "She loved to give life to it. She had a love of working with kids.

Murder charges were dropped in Contra Costa County Superior Court on Friday against a Martinez man who fatally stabbed a man during a September 2008 bar fight in an apparent act of self-defense. Paul Morgan, 33, was instead sentenced to three years of probation for involuntary manslaughter for the stabbing of 48-year-old Discovery Bay resident ... (more)

Fruit crop hopes raised by cold: Continued cold nights are bringing encouragement to Diablo Valley fruit growers who had feared an almost complete loss of the 1951 deciduous fruit crop because of the lack of sufficient chilling weather during the winter months.

The Discovery Bay Lions Club hosts its annual Crab Feed on Saturday, Feb. 25 at the beautiful event center at St.

BART is considering an 11-mile extension of eBART service from the planned stop at Hillcrest Avenue in Antioch all the way to Byron.

It was another hazy, cold December morning as I started up the Miwok Trail in Round Valley Regional Preserve .