Walnut Creek News

Rusi Baria, owner of A Royale Cab Company, usually starts his day by plunking coins into a parking meter on Riviera Avenue behind the Walnut Creek BART station.

A 19-year-old Walnut Creek man will be sentenced to seven years in prison for fatally stabbing a Hercules High School student at a summer house party where tensions between teens from different areas of Contra Costa County escalated to violence.

Las Lomas High School Principal Patrick Lickiss announced in an e-mail to the community Wednesday that he will retire at the end of this school year in June.

Walnut Creek's Route 4 "Free Ride" downtown trolley will operate later in the evening during the holiday shopping season.

For scientists, the thousandth microbial genome is just the start. Scientists want to sequence thousands of microbial genomes from across the tree of life.

With a huge number of residents who buy health care on their own and relatively few companies selling them coverage, California is just the kind of market in need of a new government-run insurance plan, supporters of the controversial proposal dominating much of the health reform debate say.

Newly elected Rep. John Garamendi will host his first town hall meeting Thursday.

A man robbed a woman of her purse Monday evening, police said. About 7:45 p.m., the 55-year-old woman parked her car at an apartment parking lot at Geary Road and Pioneer Avenue, when the robber ran up to her door and threatened to hurt her if she didn't hand over her purse, said Walnut Creek police Lt.

Listen to the cries of the song dog singing to the moon. Dear Gary: My husband and I were hiking at Shell Ridge with our golden at 1 p.m. Monday afternoon.

When it comes to traffic signals, timing is everything - especially with keeping cars flowing on Ygnacio Valley Road, one of the most heavily traveled thoroughfares in Contra Costa County.

I'd like to see all of Shakespeare's plays - but, heck, I'm a busy man and the Bard just wrote so darn many works.

A 91-year-old Walnut Creek man named Arthur Stephenson is missing, and police are asking for your help to locate him.... Walnut Creek Police seek your help in locating a missing "at risk" person: ARTHUR STEPHENSON.

Some are changing their social habits in the hopes of avoiding the H1N1 flu. Photographed in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov.

The City Council is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in the City Council chamber, 1666 N. Main St.

THE WEATHER IS starting to change, and fall is fast approaching. That spurred me to peruse some of the downtown Walnut Creek shops for a new sweater.

The Door. Executive Chef Daniel Sudar, most recently at Red Lantern in Redwood City, serves a modern Asian menu at this Walnut Creek spot, formerly Zhen Long Bistro.

Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., Tom Barnidge column: Barnidge: No simple answer on how to bet on casino's meaning for Richmond and Contra Costa Nov.

'Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis says he has to shut off part of his brain before he starts drawing a new strip.

7-Dec. 5, offers a headspinning array of speakers, performers and events, ranging from NBC News Tel Aviv bureau chief Martin Fletcher to comedians Brian Copeland and Betsy Salkind and even Charles Darwin .

Father Killed, Son Injured In Richmond Shooting A North Richmond man is dead and his adult son seriously injured after the pair were shot in front of a home early Saturday morning, according to the Contra Costa County sheriff's office.