Vacaville News

Vacaville police arrested two people and towed 12 vehicles at a DUI checkpoint on Friday night and Saturday morning.

Anger over a controversial student fee hike approved for the University of California system exploded Thursday into a protest on the Davis campus that ended with a show of force by authorities from throughout the region -- including Vacaville -- and more than 50 arrests.

Three teenagers were arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of burglarizing three homes in Vacaville.

Newly-elected Vacaville Unified School District school board trustees Horace 'Whit' Whitman and David McCallum visit Tuesday with senior Adriana Martin DelCampo at Vaca High.

A housing developer will offer a larger home design in a new Vacaville subdivision, while it also makes plans to move its offices to the city.

Vacaville Veteran's organizations will again host a free community Thanksgiving Day Dinner this year but without some more donations, it may be a small meal indeed, say organizers.

When temperatures drop, many families stop adjusting the thermostat and burn wood instead, a hands-on, rustic alternative to home heating.

After a 32-year career with the Vacaville Fire Department, Battalion Chief Brian Lopez will retire on Wednesday.

Veterans and their dependents are invited to learn more about the health, housing, occupational and educational benefits available to them that they may not know about.

Four new physicians have joined the NorthBay Center for Primary Care in Vacaville and Fairfield.

Vacaville police arrested four men Thursday afternoon during a multi-agency sex offender compliance sweep.

Narcotics officers searched a home in Vacaville Friday and arrested a 27-year-old man after discovering a cache of drugs and a marijuana growing operation, both in the presence of a 6-year-old child.

The Efrain Anthony Marrero Foundation is gearing up for its Garage Sale Fundraiser 2009 event.

A quick errand to a local store left one Vacaville resident returning to find firefighters tackling a blaze inside the chimney of his home.

Police have arrested two people suspected of burglarizing as many as 27 homes in Vacaville since last month.

Vacaville police are looking for two suspects who attempted to rob a bank Thursday.

A Yolo County jury has convicted a Vacaville man for passing a fictious check and second-degree burglary at Cache Creek Casino.

Three Woodland residents face life prison terms when they are sentenced next month in connection with the murder of an elderly man during a Vacaville home invasion robbery in 2006.

President Barack Obama visits Army Staff Sgt. Christian Hughes recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Hughes is recovering after being wounded in Afghanistan.

The culprits behind a rash of burglaries that plagued Vacaville in recent months may be in hand, police said Wednesday.