San Pablo News

A group of 6-year-olds studiously plucking the strings of violins and cellos is a sight more likely to be found in a movie about 18th century Europe than 2012 Contra Costa County.

Pinole will hold the second of two special City Council workshops Tuesday to discuss a bare-bones, fiscal year 2012-2013 Plan B budget in the event that voters reject a renewal of the utility users tax in November.

A Here's some nearly unbelievable local bird news: bald eagles have been spotted in Alhambra Valley.

One of the exhibition items, sheet music, is on display at the opening exhibition on Broadway's Tony Award Winning Best Musicals at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts February 25, 2008 in New York City.

Marie Southwick writes songs, pens books and is taking guitar lessons. On Saturday, she'll also be raising money for cancer research.

When Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan's son's cell phone was stolen in January, he ordered four detectives to track it down and work two hours of overtime at taxpayer expense, police said Monday.

Our most recent Readers' Choice post polled readers on their favorite local gas station.

Music is one of the most powerful tools we have. It can unite and inspire. It can motivate and calm.

On Friday, an evening guided hike will start at 4 p.m. led by a Solano Land Trust guide Linda Sonner at Lynch Canyon.

Repair crews have made progress on repairing a gas leak that caused classrooms at Contra Costa College to be evacuated Wednesday morning, a PG&E spokeswoman said.

On February 1, after years of terrorizing property owners with the threat of condemnation for private development, redevelopment agencies were officially dissolved in California.A Home and small business owners across the state are finally free from the very real daily fear that their property would be next on the chopping block.

Three members of a violent street gang have been charged in a drive-by shooting that killed a San Pablo man last month, according to police, who say the attack was retribution for a shooting two years ago.

A man traversing San Pablo Avenue without using a crosswalk was hit by a vehicle in late April, authorities said.A On April 23, just after 9 p.m., a 51-year-old driver from Richmond was leaving the northern driveway of BevMo! and making a left turn onto San Pablo when she hit a man accompanied by two women as they tried to cross the street heading ... (more)

A three-week-long protest on UC Berkeley agricultural research land in Albany came to a quiet close early Monday when police cleared out a small group of protesters who had set up an urban farming camp.

A stolen car out of Nevada was discovered Monday afternoon in Vallejo, and trailed to San Pablo where the suspected thief was arrested, Solano County Sheriff's deputies said.

An El Sobrante gang member was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for killing a 17-year-old teen in a drive-by shooting in San Pablo five years ago.

UCPD just locked last entrance to OccupyTheFarm, won't allow entry. Support requested ASAP.

In the University Village in Albany, I live within a stone's throw of the Gill Tract , and for the past three weeks, I have had a front-row seat to the escalating conflict between the Occupy the Farm movement and the University of California, Berkeley.

The Richmond Planning Commission has decided it wants to hear more from the community before giving design approval for a project involving an abandoned supermarket on San Pablo Avenue.

El Cerrito police Wednesday arrested one of two men suspected of trying to rob a motorist at gunpoint at a stoplight on San Pablo Avenue in early March, police said in a news release.