Walnut Creek News

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.

For those seeking work in Concord - or those who are looking for a new job, or even a second job - here's a list of local job openings.

If there was any doubt about the ubiquity of bicycles in California, it was put to rest this month.

Hailing from Walnut Creek, Calif., The Story So Far has built a name for themselves as one of the up-and-coming pop-punk acts in the music scene.

The City of Walnut Creek is seeking the names of those lost in Vietnam so they may be recognized as part of the 2013 Memorial Day Observance.

Family, Friends Remember Former Ygnacio Valley High Principal. Ernest Wutzke remembered as kind, honest, supportive man.