Pleasant Hill News

Dozens of red balloons were released into the sky by pupils at Pleasant Hill Elementary School in late October.

When Nuria Silva arrived to visit her family in El Salvador on Nov. 6, the weather was dreary, but there were few signs of a pending disaster.

Katie Joseph is a big fan of gift cards and like many other shoppers plans to use them for holiday gifts this year.

Eric Tedmus, a resident of Pleasant Hill for 26 years, loves to travel, and when he's not working as an independent insurance agent, wanderlust takes over and sends him to places around the world.

Review: 'New Moon' is better than 'Twilight,' but... It's 5:06 p.m. and 56 degrees outside Crow Canyon Cinema in San Ramon.

Across lawns and down the streets - What is their hurry?! - haiku by Lura Osgood, Pleasant Hill We hope you can give us some suggestions about keeping our cats from playing in their water bowl.

A 7th grade student was arrested and cited for arson after allegedly setting fire to a supply room at Sequoia Middle School in Pleasant Hill today, according to the Pleasant Hill Police Department.

My daughter recently moved about 3 miles away, and she took her cat with her. He is a 5-year-old male outdoor cat .

Pleasant Hill police Chief Pete Dunbar, left, and Pleasant Hill Mayor Michael Harris, took to the roof in a fundraising effort for the Irvin Deutscher Family YMCA.

From Staff Reports Originally published: November 12. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 11.

Listen to the cries of the song dog singing to the moon. Dear Gary: My husband and I were hiking at Shell Ridge with our golden at 1 p.m. Monday afternoon.

A BART employee is now off the job and facing serious charges for false imprisonment and soliciting a lewd act.

Around 2 o'clock this morning, a Concord Police Officer tried to pull a vehicle over near Minert Road, which is off Oak Grove.

Come see the staff at Fire House Smog for all your Smog Test and Check needs. Fire House Smog located in the historic old fire house on the corner of Lone Tree and Putnam has two complete service bays to get you in and out quickly and efficiently.

Unlike many of its neighbors, Pleasant Hill has weathered the recession without employee layoffs or furloughs.

Two men, one of them wielding a handgun, robbed a Pacific National Bank branch Thursday morning.

Patrick and Mary King of Pleasant Hill watch as a crane from Waraner Brothers Tree Service lifts a large piece of a redwood tree that fell in their front yard on Mohawk Drive on Oct.

With consumers keeping their hard-earned dollars mostly in their pockets these days, the city of Pleasant Hill is doing some belt-tightening. So when it came time to hammer out a new contract with the police officers' union, the economy wasn't the unacknowledged elephant in the room - it was smack in the middle of the negotiating table.

A 21-year-old Pleasant Hill man was killed when his car struck a tree Sunday evening, police said.

A 21-year-old man is dead after a fatal crash in Pleasant Hill early last night around 6:40. Cpl.