Lamorinda police, county sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers coordinated a pursuit, spike-stripping and eventual foot chases after burglary suspects believed to have been armed and dangerous abandoned their smoking car and fled into the area near Veteran's...
A flurry of gunfire erupted outside a popular Pleasant Hill restaurant Monday, sending witnesses scurrying for cover and at least one person to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the hand.
Police were called to the area of Contra...
Still in our News Jam Jams but brought up short by active fires in Orinda - with a 2-alarm residential fire burning on Las Palomas in Orinda and a vehicle fire engulfing a mini-van in Bore 1 of the...
Occupants out of this car after a crash near St. Stephens - and a whole bunch of people looking for a brown Pug doggo that came out of the crash and was last seen running east along the shoulder.
Happy...
We humans are a strange lot, capable of complex emotions, convoluted thinking and some genuinely strange behavior whilst engaged in ritual celebrations.
Take Christmas, for example, which this year seems to have the Rodney Dangerfield tagline "... please," appended to...
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(Walnut Creek, Calif.) - On Friday, December 20, 2024, the Contra Costa Crisis Center, in partnership with Contra Costa Health, NAMI Contra Costa, Safe Organized Spaces, Loaves and Fishes...
CONCORD, CA - Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Contra Costa Fire) and Rodeo-Hercules Fire Protection District (Rodeo-Hercules) are pleased to announce the Contra Costa Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) has unanimously approved the annexation of Rodeo-Hercules by Contra...
A circuitous air and ground pursuit of a suspected car thief snaked through Concord and ended in Pleasant Hill Wednesday after the alleged thief abandoned his vehicle and fled into the neighborhood.
The unidentified suspect was eventually pinpointed hiding...
More local shutterbugs sharing their work this morning with this submission from "A. Reader" (we suspect that's some kind of nom du plume). Anyway, we liked the work!
A pedestrian was struck by a car and seriously injured on Westbound Ygnacio Valley Road east of Oak Grove Road at approximately 6:25a.m. Friday.
The responsible driver phoned police to report they had "hit something" in the area...
