Messy Truck Crash Closes 680 Transition South From SR4 Friday
A hoist truck apparently carrying poles to a construction site at the I680/SR4 transition toppled Friday night, spilling its load, injuring a driver and tying up traffic for several hours as California Highway Patrol officers and freeway workers dealt with a resultant fuel spill and damaged light poles. As you can tell from photographer Craig…
“Like Driving Into A Cotton Ball” – Foggy In The 24/680 Tonight
Night Hawk photographer Craig Cannon is out and about tonight, looking for a picture and not seeing much as billowing folds of fog close in on our bridges and valleys. Cannon shot this photo in Martinez.
On This Night In October – LOTS Happened…
… we just can’t figure it all out. Perhaps it’s our unsettled atmospherics, variations of barometric pressure and a swinging compass as a storm bears down on us that has everyone so jumpy. We don’t know. It’s our only word for it, neighbors arguing with neighbors, seeing things that aren’t there, chasing each other around…
“Saturday Night’s All Right For… A Little Bit Of Everything, It Seems…”
If you were out and about and in the mix Saturday night you know things were as hot as Sir Elton’s lyrics. Our people were out and mingling, too, trying to sneak dinner in between incidents and running from scene to scene. Sadly, this lethal drug thing the county appears to have embarked on touched…
Danville Hoarding Condition Leads To Confiscation Of Dozens Of Cats, Dogs
A strike team of animal services workers responded to a Danville property Friday after getting reports of dozens of animals being kept in unsafe, unsanitary conditions. Contra Costa Animal Services workers along with representatives from ARF, East Bay SPCA and Berkeley Humane Society went to the unidentified property to gather and assess the condition of…
“Fill ‘Er Up, Buddy, Willya? Oh… MAMA!”
If you’re out and about in one of those dino-powered gas guzzlers you have our sympathy if the sticker shock is proving to be too much these days. If you have money to burn you may not have batted an eye, but Nighthawk Craig Cannon noted the price tag for petrol at a Chevron in…
Blowback – Are We Witnessing The End Of Gas-Powered “Gardening” Gear In California?
You may have heard that California is poised to become the first state in the nation to phase out the use of gas-powered lawn equipment, aka blowers, mowers, and trimmers. Depending on your preferences and threshold for pain, you’re either leaping for joy right now or speed dialing your lawyer to file a blocking lawsuit…
Women’s March For Reproductive Rights In Orinda Saturday
The Orinda Women’s March for Reproductive Rights starts at 2 p.m., Saturday (today) at Theatre Square and proceeds to City Hall (on sidewalks, no streets blocked). Today’s gathering is one of the over 650 nationwide marches for reproductive rights taking place today. Amy Worth, current Mayor of Orinda, will speak. The local organizer for the…
… And The Lights Go Out In Moraga Friday… Again.
Unknown if it was another suicidal squirrel or too-tall semi truck but the power is out to a sizable portion of Moraga tonight – and boy, are we hearing about it. Apparently some team named the Giants is playing or something… Unknown cause, as we said, with PG&E guestimating repairs by midnight. We can only…
Another Water Main Failure – This Time In Alamo
The latest in a recent string of infrastructure failures occurred overnight at Danville Boulevard and Hemme in Alamo as water sluiced down neighborhood streets and down into the gutters yet again as residents fretted about potential damage to their homes. Local Joe Foster shot this video as the water rose in the neighborhood Friday. Officials…