Rodeo News

The interior of the Windmill Club after an early morning fire on the corner of Parker Avenue and Second Street in Rodeo, Calif.

A fire broke out at the Windmill Club early this morning, destroying a bar distinguished by the full-sized propeller adorning the top of the building, authorities said.

Macy's doesn't have a monopoly on Thanksgiving Day parades and festivities. The Wild Turkey Shoot is Point Richmond's whimsical, homegrown way to kick off the holiday.

The Rodeo-Hercules Fire District and its firefighters union have entered into a three-year labor agreement that calls for annual salary increases of 1 percent, 1.5 percent and 2.25 percent but leaves unchanged the current "2 percent at 50" retirement benefit.

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A 19-year-old Walnut Creek man will be sentenced to seven years in prison for fatally stabbing a Hercules High School student at a summer house party where tensions between teens from different areas of Contra Costa County escalated to violence.

Some Hercules residents want the City Council to adopt an ordinance that would limit the number of people who can attend a house party, to prevent a recurrence of a recent gathering of several hundred on Turquoise Drive that ended with two people shot.

RODEO, Calif. a " A natural gas leak is the likely cause of an explosion at a Rodeo apartment complex that injured three.Authorities say the blast at the Bayo Vista public housing complex blew the wall off a vacant apartment and injured two adults and a 12-year-old child in an adjacent unit.

A firefighters' salary-and-benefits package is on the agenda of Wednesday's board meeting of the Rodeo-Hercules Fire District.

Fire officials are investigating the cause of an explosion and fire that ripped through an apartment building near unincorporated Rodeo early this morning, a dispatcher with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said.

A natural gas explosion tore through an apartment building early this morning, causing minor injuries and drawing attention from fire investigators as suspicious, the Contra Costa Fire District said.

Police say a man was shot through the hand at a house party Sunday evening. The 61-year-old man was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he was listed in stable condition on Sunday night.

The Rodeo-Hercules Fire District board has condemned member Bill Prather over an alleged discriminatory remark against women that someone reported overhearing in a bar.

The mean-spirited would call it Darwinism at work. A suspected thief got the shock of his life after apparently trying to steal copper.

Air Liquidea s latest large-scale hydrogen production unit recently began operations on the site of ConocoPhillipsa San Francisco refinery in Rodeo, California, on the north eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay.

A Contra Costa sheriff's deputy was treated for minor injuries Monday night after a stolen car collided with his patrol vehicle during a chase.

A man firing a handgun indiscriminately in front of a weekend house party sent two people to the hospital, Hercules police said Monday, but nobody will identify the gunman.

A manager at a bulk fuel terminal in Contra Costa County pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to causing another person to tamper with or make ineffective a vapor recovery monitoring device.

Eight women begin their quest to earn the Miss Rodeo California 2010 crown Tuesday.

LIFE OR DEATH: Pete rushes Violet to the hospital where Addison fights to save her on the season premiere of "Private Practice" at 10 p.m. on ABC.