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 ...

Representatives of Pacific Gas and Electric met with 25 members of the Lost Valley Association recently to help clarify the look of the the Moraga Substation located at the entrance to Lost Valley in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pacific Swimming, the third largest of USA Swimming's 59 regional associations, which comprises 120 swim clubs and more than 16,000 swimmers, named Ron and Don Heidary (Ronnie and Donnie to their ...

Santa Claus may be broke this year. He may not be able to bring that $700 game system. A Lafayette mom said the annual Tahoe family ski trip may be off this winter. The economic downturn is impacting ...

John Scheuerman was at some of the most dangerous scenes of the Second World War, aboard a destroyer. His boat landed at Normandy, the South of France, and was part of the Pacific War; but as ...

Shortly before dawn on Oct. 30, Ferenc Kovac heard pops and sparks, looked out his window and saw smoke and flames shooting from a house afire in a nearby Moraga cul de sac. Kovac called in the alarm ...

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 ...

Bentley School in Lafayette hosted the Bay Counties League-East women's tennis team championship final on October 26, in ideal weather and in front of an enthusiastic crowd. The Lady Phoenix fought ...