Orinda News

Fixing crumbling roads, a regional plan for sustainable growth and paying for a skate park parking lot were on the minds this week of Lamorinda leaders and residents.

Celebrity Cuisine: The Eye was enjoying a couple of post-work beers at Artie's Countrywood Lounge recently when the host and crew from Food Network's "Restaurant: Impossible" strolled into the Walnut Creek watering hole.

According to a new poll, Orinda residents are willing to pay a higher sales tax to help fix their city's damaged roads.

Founded by Ron Graydon in 1982 as the North Bay Orinda School, the academy provides students in grades 6-12 with a college prep curriculum and small class sizes.

California businessman Walter Liew and China's Pangang Group Co. were charged with conspiring to steal trade secrets about titanium dioxide technology from the DuPont Co., according to the U.S. Justice Department and a revised indictment.

During a recent lunch date with a friend in downtown Antioch, Efi Lubliner noticed the El Campanil Theatre and wondered why more films weren't being shown in the historic community theater.

For the third year, San Francisco's lovers of laughter will have the renewed opportunity to enjoy a champagne-filled night of comedy at the landmark Orinda Theatre on Friday, March 2nd.

Henry Meyers was a prominent Bay Area architect in the mid-1930s when he designed the bas relief medallions adorning the entrances of the Caldecott Tunnel's two original bores.

The Moraga School District will hold kindergarten registration for the 2012-2013 school year in February, but postpone transitional kindergarten signups due to a lack of state funding.

An expanse of open space at the intersection of two quiet residential streets has become the epicenter of a debate between Orinda residents and city leaders.

Shine your shoes, pop your corn and stock up on felt tip pens for autographs because the 14th California Independent Film Festival is about to make a splash in Moraga and Orinda Feb.

Police hope the person or persons who entered a pair of downtown Orinda businesses overnight left some telltale evidence behind.

Doggie door burglaries , front door kick-ins, burglars so speedy and so knowledgable of their victim's activities they're in and out of a targeted house in minutes -- with jewelry, guns, prized heirlooms and possessions.

Surviving are two daughters, Robin Johnson of Beaver Dam and Larra Ortiz of Orinda, Calif.; one son, Kyle D. Edwards of Paducah; one brother, Fred Johnston of Florida; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one son, Daniel H. Edwards; and one sister.

A Bay Area plan for where to build new houses, shops and offices in a way that helps cut greenhouse gases relies on increased population concentrations some communities may reject, a state homebuilding industry representative said Thursday.

13, 2012, Orinda, Calif. Marinda Wu was recently elected the 2012 president-elect of the American Chemical Society, and like the two Chinese characters that make up the word "crisis" she arrives bearing a message of both peril and opportunity.

Plans for a dedicated dog area at Rancho Laguna Park have hit a legal snag with a lawsuit against the Town of Moraga challenging an approved canines-only zone.

The Moraga School District will hold kindergarten registration for the 2012-2013 school year in February, but postpone transitional kindergarten sign-ups due to a lack of state funding.

The debate of pensions throughout the state is a loud one but the Town of Danville and two other Contra Costa County cities are sitting this one out.

Q My wife and I love our two Prii, but we encountered a new problem of rodents gnawing on the wiring insulation of Toyota vehicles.