Orinda News

A 61-year-old Orinda real estate executive and former Saint Mary's College professor pleaded guilty Friday morning to producing child pornography in a case in which he traveled to Costa Rica to have sex with a ...

For about the past week or so, every morning, just as the sun is rising, at least 50 crows fly over my house in Danville all together flying approximately west to east.

The Moraga Planning Commission is scheduled to certify the final Environmental Impact Review for the Rancho Laguna development at its meeting Sept.

BUY AMERICAN, eat American. That's my philosophy; except for the Japanese car in the driveway or the Italian restaurant down the street.

Like so many unexpected things in this town, Berkeley manages to fit a whole lot of theater into a relatively small city.

The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office is searching for an 82-year-old woman who went missing after going for a walk in Orinda Monday morning.

It took nearly 20 years, the retreat of two developers and seemingly nonstop criticism from neighboring communities and environmental groups before the Wilder housing development began to take shape.

Jonathan Moscone, the gay son of former Mayor George Moscone, has no plans to see the new biopic Milk set for release this fall.

High-voltage power lines from a fallen PG&E pole temporarily blocked traffic on an Orinda street Wednesday afternoon.

SWINGING SYMPHONY SEASON OPENER: Lafayette's Gwen Reichert, event chair for the Contra Costa League of the San Francisco Symphony, reports the gala coming up on Wednesday, Sept.

About 450 grass-chomping, leaf-stripping goats are grazing the hillsides in Pebble Beach this week on a mission to chew down weeds and brush that if left standing could fuel a forest fire.

It's been a year since Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laura Sessions Stepp sent out shock waves with a book chronicling the so-called teen hook-up culture.

A motorist who struck a pedestrian Friday in Orinda and then ran away from the scene has turned himself in to police.

FATAL MOTORCYCLE CRASH: Investigators believe speed was a primary factor in a motorcycle crash that killed a 47-year-old Tracy man early Friday in unincorporated Contra Costa County, the California Highway ...

For a few years now, Orinda City Council candidate Robert Larsen has had a bone to pick with incumbent Steve Glazer - and now he has a new platform from which to air his complaints.

A hit-and-run driver literally ran away from a collision that left a pedestrian with major injuries Friday morning.

Hostels such as the Youth Hostel Jacques Brel in Brussels are attracting more students from wealthier backgrounds and more travelers over the age of 30.

Despite the rosy picture painted in a newly released fiscal feasibility study, some Alamo residents still are questioning whether their 160-year-old bedroom community would be viable as a city.

David Kahawaii, 12, as JoJo and Carl Danielsen as The Cat in the Hat will perform in "Seussical," a Woodminster Summer Musical set to open on Aug.

For the first time in years, all three Lamorinda cities appear likely to host City Council elections in November.