Vallejo News

Going to college is expensive enough for California Maritime Academy students in Vallejo, but with the threat of interest rates on student loans doubling this summer that outlay could go even higher.

Marcello directs bell players during the new Cirque Dreams Splashtastic at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo.

Dubbed Operation Goodwill, the effort began May 15, and is made up of Vallejo Police Department, Solano County Sheriff's Office, the California Highway Patrol and, to some extent, the Solano County Probation Department.

Wearing a police on his cap, Francisco Arreola of Vacaville celebrates as he receives his diploma from Solano Community College in Fairfield on Thursday.

Two people were arrested Thursday in a narcotics raid in the 400 block of Benicia Road in unincorporated Vallejo, authorities said.

The focus will be on Italian singers as Vallejo celebrates the grand opening of its new arts and entertainment district on June 1. A "Tribute to Italian Singers" will get under way at 8 p.m. in the Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St.

Vallejo High School BioTech Academy students work with Marianne Butler from the Solano Resource Conservation District collecting water samples from Chabot Creek in Vallejo as part of their science class.

Rep. Mike Thompson and U.S. Health and Human Services Regional Director Herb Schultz invite the public to Solano College's Vallejo center Tuesday for a discussion on how the Affordable Care Act impacts small businesses, organizers announced.

The Vallejo Planning Commission has approved a proposal to reduce permitting requirements for small-scale fast-food or quick-service restaurants throughout the city.

An armed robbery and shooting, in which one person was wounded were reported around the same time Wednesday afternoon in North Vallejo, police said.

The protest is scheduled to begin at the Vallejo Farmers market at 9:30 a.m. and progress to a one-mile march by 11 a.m., starting at the foot of Georgia Street.

In a profession where cool heads prevail in the midst of chaos, Solano has joined the rest of the country as it observes National Emergency Medical Services Week and is recognizing the county's own first responders who have made their mark through unfailing commitment in the face of emergency.

Congressman Mike Thompson announced Benjamin Yu from Jesse M. Bethel High School in Vallejo as the winner of the 2013 Congressional Art Competition.

With much of the Vallejo community's attention focused on the finale of its inaugural Participating Budgeting project, there's been less coverage lately of other events that also promise to affect our city in some very vital ways.

They awoke in each other's arms, sunlight streaming in through the window. The cat had slept in the entwine of their legs all night.

The Fairfield man accused of shooting and killing a Vallejo police officer after a 2011 bank heist was in court Monday.

A Solano County Superior Court jury on Monday ruled a Vallejo man guilty of first degree murder in the death of an innocent bystander in 2007 in what authorities believe was a gang-related shooting.

While the ink is still fresh, the PB votes have been tallied. The final results were broadcast at last night's celebratory PB event at the Vallejo Power Company Bar & Grill.

What we came to realize was that the taxpayers of Winters, Dixon, Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun City, Benicia and Vallejo enthusiastically want Solano Community College to excel further in its academic and vocational programs, as well as in the infrastructure that are the means to those ends.

The initial report was a grass fire near a structure on Taylor and Warren avenues at about 3:30 p.m. However, it was soon elevated to a structure on fire, firefighters said.