Walnut Creek News

Voters' rejection in November of a Contra Costa Fire District parcel tax -- it would have cost a typical property owner $75 per year -- was widely seen as a two-part ultimatum to those in charge: 1) Learn to live within your budget, and 2) find a less costly way to deliver emergency services.

New this year is the Premium Beer Garden, where beer aficionados can sample craft beers from Ale industries, Dogfish Head, Diago to Duvel Moortgat.

The stretch of Buskirk Avenue between Elmira Avenue and Hookston Road is closed to traffic until December while the city widens the roadway.

Norman Wielsch arrives at Superior Court in Walnut Creek, Calif. Thursday April 21, 2011 for a CNET-related hearing.

A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer was injured Saturday afternoon when he collided with a car on Marsh Creek Road in unincorporated Contra Costa County.

A California Highway Patrol officer providing traffic control for the Amgen Tour of California was seriously injured Saturday afternoon in Brentwood.

Two gas attendants in Walnut Creek found credit card skimmers at their stations.

The Walnut Creek City Council is set to decide Tuesday on the fate of 1500 California, a project that calls for 141 apartments and nearly 18,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space in two six-story buildings.

Editor: I have lived in a rural area, suburbia and a big city. I lived in Pleasant Hill, remembering the drive to my grandfather's farm in Walnut Creek to help harvest the walnuts.

In its 31st year, the Walnut Acres Summer Fun Camp is ready to reserve spaces for campers.

Donna Kaulkin and Cinda MacKinnon have a lot to celebrate this month -- they've turned their childhood storytelling skills and dreams of writing a novel into reality.

At least one city council member is concerned that the city's ability to dictate its own future growth is at risk because of a long-term regional housing, transportation and jobs plan -- one that is stirring controversy in many Bay Area cities.

James Lee Stanley delivers heartfelt songs with finely crafted musical backing and delightful repartee.

In a seemingly quixotic quest, an East Bay businessman who is a dual Iranian and U.S. citizen has thrown his hat into the ring to be Iran's next president.

Longtime Pacifica resident Linda Alm Rhoades, passed on April 6, 2013 from complications from cancer with her loving son, Rob, and brother, Kent, by her side.

Topped with smoked salmon, vegetables or Caprese-components, open-face sandwiches known as tartine are popular than ever in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Monday, April 1, 2013.

If one Contra Costa County home gardener fights "peach curl" with enviro-safe fungicide once a year, a tree is saved.

Scott Achelis taxis his home built RV6-A, two-seater airplane up to the clubhouse at Buchanan Field Airport, where parents eagerly await the return of their children who have just gotten a taste of flight.

We've redesigned Patch and the Patch app. The news looks better and it's easier to comment on.

It goes without saying that you should file your tax returns each year and pay what you owe.