Concord News

Dickey's Barbecue Pit multi-unit owners Damon and Shantel Owens are ready to party at their grand opening celebration at their Brentwood location on Friday, May 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dickey's Barbecue Pit multi-unit owners Damon and Shantel Owens are ready to party at their grand opening celebration at their Brentwood location on Friday, May 24 ... (more)

Cristian Gonzalez and Stephanie Lopez want to help people like their grandparents -- who have diabetes -- earn how to eat healthier foods so they can feel better and live longer.

The City Council will revisit what to do about Benicia's largest piece of undeveloped land, despite deeply split views over the Seeno family's 530 acres.

Cindy Gershen, who owns the Sunrise Bistro in Walnut Creek and teaches a healthy cooking class at Mt.

A spot fire was extinguished at Clyde Park in the town of Clyde, which you may or may not know is located on Port Chicago Highway near the Concord Naval Weapons Station.

I don't like waiting in lines, apathy, stupidity, bad food, lousy wine, boring people, and a host of other stuff we must contend with in the course of our every day lives.

Emergency responders and young members of teams at Galindo Field at Willow Pass Community Park in Concord recently celebrated the placement of an automated external defibrillator for public use, which was donated by American Medical Response.

Carondelet High Schoolis Jefferson Award recipients inlcude, from left, Hayley Miller, Alexandria Reynolds and Shelby Smith.

The City of Concord is looking to change the speed limit on a 0.8-mile section of Treat Boulevard from 45-mph to 40-mph, according to city documents.

Police called in members of the Walnut Creek Bomb Squad to assist them in a search of a home Wednesday afternoon, but officials appeared to give the all-clear shortly before 4:45 p.m. The search of a single-story family home on the 1800 block of Johnson Drive began shortly after 3:30 p.m., police said.

Scott Achelis taxis his home built RV6-A, two-seater airplane up to the clubhouse at Buchanan Field Airport, where parents eagerly await the return of their children who have just gotten a taste of flight.

This picture is from 1965 from my Uncle's sheetrock warehouse, Hester Bros. Detroit Avenue in Concord ended there at the time, with the "new" BART maintenance/car construction station in the background.

A driver killed in a crash off of state Highway-4 near Concord on Monday has been identified as 62-year-old Joanne Fellows-Martin, of El Sobrante, a Contra Costa County coroner's deputy said.

A man with a sawed-off shotgun and a knife attempted to break into an apartment on Virginia Lane in Concord, near Monument Boulevard, at about 10:30 on Monday night.

Another accident on Monument. Glad there were no injuries like the skateboard accident on Monument last year.

Former Contra Costa County drug task force commander Norman Wielsch was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in a police corruption case that scandalized the Bay Area.

The stretch of Buskirk Avenue between Elmira Avenue and Hookston Road is closed to traffic until December while the city widens the roadway.

Police arrested a Byron man after he took a luxury car for a test drive at a local BMW dealership, then sped off with the vehicle after leaving the accompanying salesperson on the side of the road, authorities said.

A Concord woman was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of arson after police say she used a lighter to set fire to a hillside that in turn sparked a four-acre burn.

The Concord City Council has proclaimed May 19th to May 25th as Public Works Week.