Discovery Bay News

CSD Director Brian Dawson, shown here during a recent meeting, resigned his seat on the town board this week following a months-long effort by local residents to have the director recalled.

East Contra Costa Fire District has scheduled another round of meetings to answer property owners' questions about the $197 annual parcel tax it's proposing on the June ballot.

Four people have pleaded guilty to charges in a $20 million mortgage scheme that involved more than a dozen Northern California properties.

Embattled CSD Director Brian Dawson resigned from the Discovery Bay CSD board this morning, effective immediately.

On the same day that petition was to be submitted asking for his recall, an embattled Discovery Bay town leader announced his resignation as director.

Editor: The recent grand jury report of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District is not on target, as stated by Johnny Merrill's Jan.

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)

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)

In the first of several expected guilty pleas involving rampant corruption in an elite Contra Costa County vice squad, a former San Ramon police officer was taken into federal custody Thursday after admitting to nine felonies and misdemeanors.

Island Time co-owner Heather Travers displays some popular items in front of the store's beautifully-painted door.

Andrew Kobayashi, 17, holds up a prize-winning striped bass caught during a fishing tournament last year.

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.

Kevin Graves, 54, whose son Joey Graves picture hangs at right, is photographed holding his late son's uniform at his home on Wednesday Jan.

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

Concerns are growing that an invasive water weed that has long frustrated Delta boaters and swimmers could return in force this year after an aggressive state effort to control it.

Several Contra Costa communities remembered civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

Two Discovery Bay residents were arrested Wednesday in connection with an armed robbery of the Safeway gas station earlier this month.