A fire in a planter box at businesses in a building at 1616 Bonanza Street put up enough smoke to trigger a second alarm, evacuations and a major response from firefighters.
Smoke was reported in the area at 2:30...
Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/16/2025
5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Downtown Walnut Creek on Locust Street between Cypress Street and Civic Drive
Categories
Celebration
Fair
Food
Free
Downtown Walnut Creek comes alive on Wednesday, July 16th at Locust Street Festival, your go-to summer block party filled with good vibes,...
A carload of people returning from a concert in San Jose told California Highway Patrol officers their car was fired upon by occupants of a "dark sedan" while traveling north on I680 near Stone Valley Road in Alamo early...
Data collected by county Health, Housing & Homeless Services workers reflects a "meaningful" drop in the number of homeless people in Contra Costa County this year over previous years - 725 fewer people than those counted in 2024.
Although the...
There's a lot of talk about the Old Days and how good they were and all. Perhaps so, but we know folks back then had style and that sense of style came through in the way they did business...
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Acalanes Union High School District of Contra Costa County, California (“District”), acting by and through its Board of Education (“Board”), will receive up...
Well, Happy Birthday to us and, yep, our 249 years may be starting to show a little, in our view - and we can't help but wonder what those hopeful yokels who gathered in Philadelphia to lay out the...
The USGS reports a Magnitude 2.6 shaker 2 kilometers north northwest of Walnut Creek on Friday.
Recorded at 11:16:55am.
Two people were injured and transported to a local hospital after a head-on crash between two SUV in the eastbound lanes of Olympic Boulevard and Tice Valley Boulevard.
The crash was reported at 8:48pm.
Some lanes were closed as emergency...
Del Monte Foods, a Walnut Creek-based company best known for its sprawling line of canned fruits and vegetables, has filed for bankruptcy protection as U.S. consumers increasingly bypass the firm's products for healthier or cheaper options.
Once headquartered in San...
