Procedure became the story at the Nov. 5 Orinda City Council meeting as council members were excused (Glazer), recused (Severson), and briefed on policy prior to the hearing of a proposal to replace ...

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District recently hired a new facilities manager, Wendy Riley, whose to-do list leads off with Lafayette's fire station 16. Fire Chief Jeff Carman immediately ...

Imagining herself bereft of life's purpose, Diana Lorence found peace, passion and paradise in a tiny, 12-foot-square house. And then, after seven years spent living in the home lit only by a fire ...

For the second year in a row Stanley Middle School 7/8 grade varsity boys won the East Bay Middle Schools Varsity Cross Country League Championships Nov. 3 at Kennedy Grove Park. The varsity 7/8 girls ...

Longtime Orinda resident and garden volunteer Linda Mizes was in a state of shock after her first visit to Miramonte High School post-pandemic. The three gardens, scattered throughout the school, in ...

Local voters re-elected a pair of incumbents and one newcomer to the Acalanes Union High School District board of directors on Election Day Tuesday. Incumbents Nancy Kendzierski garnered 19,566 votes ...

Hamza Houcher has held jobs delivering pizzas for Round Table, assisting at the Chevron station and working at the Lafayette Post Office. Now, Houcher has put down temporary roots in a one-bedroom ...

Major fires the last Sunday of October pushed the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District to its limits and caused the evacuation of thousands of residents in Lafayette, all part of possibly the ...

Unlike in the U.S. presidential race, there was no drawn out, nail-biting drama in the Nov. 3 election of Lamorinda fire agency directors, with one race redefining the term "landslide." The closest ...

Showing no ill-effects after going through a season where the pandemic was at the forefront of everyone's mind. The Lamorinda girls' golf teams just concluded the year with great individual and team ...

It was a sad day, said Moraga resident John Anderson, who watched as this store fixture from Moraga's Orchard Supply Hardware was purchased and hauled outside on the store's final day of operation Nov ...

At a special Moraga Town Council meeting on Oct. 30, Stars Holding Co., LLC, property owner of 398 Rheem Blvd., made an appeal regarding the Notice and Order to Abate Violations. The town states: the ...