Contra Costa County News

Maddie's Fund Pet Adoption Days are coming on June 1-2. This free adoption event is the biggest in the country, and Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter hopes to empty the FAAS shelter of adoptable pets to qualified homes.

Shoreline Unified School District's new superintendent, Thomas Stubbs, whose appointment was announced at a board meeting last week, is looking forward to working with staff to "figure out the direction we want to take the district," he told the Light this week.

The El Cerrito Garden Club has taken on a lot of beautification projects over its history, and one of its most significant is also one of the smallest.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee delivers the news that the Bay Area has been awarded Super Bowl L. He's joined by Board of Supervisor David Chiu and Charlotte Schultz, chief of protocol, at City Hall in San Francisco, Calif.

In an effort to prevent childhood obesity, First 5 Contra Costa and the Healthy and Active Before 5 collaborative have launched a hard-hitting campaign called "Sugar Bites", which is urging parents to protect their toddlers and preschoolers from sugary drinks, and serve them water instead.

Contra Costa County's Board of Supervisors believe the draft Plan Bay Area is a good first step in setting regional goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a letter addressed to the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Kevin Walthers will take the reins as Allan Hancock College president beginning July 8, following official approval of his contract Tuesday night.

Two teens have been charged with attempted murder for shooting two Albany High School students near the BART tracks in El Cerrito earlier this year, authorities said Tuesday.

A search continued Tuesday for a Brentwood resident who walked away from a hospital and jumped into a canal Monday night, authorities said.

Looking at everything on offer at this year's 80-acre Contra Costa County Fair, it's hard to imagine seeing it all in just one day.

It's three for free! Bring three cans of food to the Fair on Thursday, May 30, and receive free admission to the Fair Imagine being able to visit the annual Contra Costa County Fair for free, and be able to help the local Food Bank at the same time? At this year's Fair, you can! The Contra Costa County Fair and the Food Bank of Contra Costa and ... (more)

A driver killed in a crash off of state Highway-4 near Concord on Monday has been identified as 62-year-old Joanne Fellows-Martin, of El Sobrante, a Contra Costa County coroner's deputy said.

A Brentwood handyman is expected to be sentenced to 16 years to life in prison next month for fatally striking and dragging a woman with his pickup on an Antioch road in 2010.

Former Contra Costa County drug task force commander Norman Wielsch was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in a police corruption case that scandalized the Bay Area.

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.

A draft proposal for the social host ordinance that was up for a first reading at Monday night's meeting was apparently not ready to taken up by the council.

Nearly 18 months after opening, Oakley's clinic for those with little or no health insurance is, by all appearances, thriving.

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 brush fire in the San Francisco Bay Area has been contained after coming close to homes, and authorities are investigating whether it was set intentionally.

It's just a 4-mile stretch of country road, but Highway 156 is a vital link between the Monterey Peninsula and the Bay Area -- and now it could become the first toll road north of Los Angeles.