Contra Costa County News

Editor: County Supervisor Mary Piepho was recently quoted in the Brentwood Press touting the ability of fire district employees to retire at age 50 with a pension at nearly full salary, calling it the "industry standard." Unfortunately, the article failed to note that Piepho is married to a firefighter, and has a personal interest in defending this ... (more)

The City of Brentwood recently spent more than $60 million to revamp its downtown core including more than $8 million on street and landscaping.

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If you haven't been by Park Place in Point Richmond lately, a visit may be in order next week and beyond.

The hilly Altamont Pass region in eastern Alameda and Contra Costa counties is home to one of the nation's oldest wind farms, first developed in the 1970s on land leased from cattle ranchers.

Contra Costa County spelling ace Nick Lambert devised his own technique for imagining how to combine letters to form challenging words: he writes them in the air with his finger.

A committee of stakeholders in the East Contra Costa burg has raised enough money to bring a fireworks show back to the downtown waterfront.

Some call it mommy porn, some call it bad writing. A lot of people call it a very big commercial success.

A Concord police Officer drove after two men inA their Ford F-150 pickup truck the afternoon of Oct.

The new initiative is expected to start July 1 and continue for "a minimum" of three years, and to hold costs to zero in year one and to "single digit" increases in the following two years by providing better coordination and integration of care.

After a five-month trial that ended May 1, Rodeo resident Edjuan Chardon Scott, 29, was convicted of 23 felonies.

Deputy District Attorney Michael Gressett, 55, had been indicted on charges that he used a gun, an ice pick and handcuffs to sexually assault a junior colleague during a lunch break in 2008.

This week's Contra Costa County Fair is happening Thursday through Sunday at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds in Antioch.

Being a smoker in California just got a little tougher. County supervisors in Marin have passed a new ordinance that bans smoking in apartments and condominiums .

By Tomi Van de Brooke I was born and raised in Contra Costa County, attended local public schools and, as a teenager, rode horses in our beautiful hills.

High schools in the Mt. Diablo school district in Concord, Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek will be holding commencement exercises at the Sleep Train Pavilion beginning June 10.

PG&E executives said earlier this year that the company expects to pay at least $200 million in fines associated with three separate investigations by the California Public Utilities Commission into the deadly September 2010 San Bruno that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes.

All Contra Costa County library branches offer programs for children, teens, adults and families.

The City Council is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 4, in the council chamber of the City Hall, 100 Gregory Lane.

Health professionals and emergency-response experts are meetingA next week to plan how to save children's lives following a catastrophic event in California.