Orinda News

When Janice Lever was 50 years old, the mother of grown children, she did a gutsy thing.

As busy as he has been lately, playwright and actor Richard Montoya happily returns to his Sacramento roots whenever possible.

A citizen task force will tackle how to improve fire and emergency services in the city in the wake of the rejection last month of a plan to finance a new joint fire station on the Lafayette-Orinda border.

First, the troupe had to postpone the opening of its season by a week when nearby construction necessitated PG&E doing an electrical rerouting to the Orinda Community Center Park, where the group performs.

Voters in Encinitas, California, a coastal community just north of San Diego, will decide whether or not to impose height limits on buildings in their city.

An Orinda couple suffered injuries when their car crashed Monday afternoon as they headed into Petaluma on Highway 101, said the CHP.

The Moraga-Orinda Fire District is reviewing safety policies in the wake of an investigation into a December multicar crash that sent three Moraga-Orinda Fire District firefighters and one motorist to the hospital.

Swiffer tries to clean up Rosie mess: Commercials and other promotions for Swiffer -- the refillable mop and duster products by Procter & Gamble -- are commonplace on TV, social media and elsewhere.

Top-seeded Megan McCray of Oceanside, Calif., easily advanced to the singles quarterfinals of the USTA National Open Hard Court Championship at the Balboa Tennis Club as she breezed past Linda Guerzize of Palm Desert, Calif., 6-0, 6-1.

Plans by the Moraga-Orinda Fire District to rebuild one Orinda fire station and remodel another facility in Moraga could soon be shelved to help balance the budget and avoid service reductions.

Can Do Multiple Sclerosis has announced that Richard Kelly and Robin Kelly from Denver have been appointed to co-chair.

A character of many hats, from the jaunty one on his head to teacher, principal, law instructor, coach and union president.

Call us suckers for dance, but there's something intensely gratifying about watching Lois Flood waft barefoot across the Orinda Library community hall stage.

California newlyweds Rob and Lisa Oshima are trying to save money to start a family.

California newlyweds Rob and Lisa Oshima are trying to save money to start a family.

The City Council will consider on Tuesday modifying its lease with the operator of the Library Cafe to lower the cafe's rent for the next 15 months and allow greater flexibility to better survive as, essentially, an amenity for the library.

Hear the vibrant and beautifully blended sounds of WomenSing. Experience "Southern Exposure" with works by Britten, Nunez and Paulus.

Richard Ruiz performs during a rehearsal of American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose at Cal Shakes Berkeley Rehearsal Hall in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

A committee working on a plan for a new library in El Cerrito is also pushing the city to provide funding in its 2013-14 budget to keep the current 65-year-old library open more hours per week.

He was 89. Stokes was the agency's first employee, and he brought his lifelong commitment to ambitious, technologically-advanced public transit to the area's postwar building and transportation operations.