When the Metropolitan Transportation Commission last month decided to permanently raise Bay Area bridge tolls by another $2.50, it was flying blind, lacking basic financial data to justify the ...

Contra Costa County Supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston yesterday called for a full facility audit of Martinez Refining Company after ... County health officials said residents in the affected area can ...

The council supported passing an industrial safety ordinance, despite concerns about legal challenges from Valero.

Several federal, state and local authorities voiced their frustrations looming around PBF Energy's Martinez, Calif., refinery fire in a joint statement Tuesday, as officials called for reparations and ...

Months into a criminal investigation by the California Department of Justice into Contra Costa Health for possible Medi-Cal ...

Contra Costa County Supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston on Tuesday called for a full facility audit of Martinez Refining ...

Contra Costa County officials have lifted a shelter ... fine particulate matter and other harmful pollutants," the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said in a news release.

(BCN/EdSource) — West Contra Costa Unified School District ... Richmond and other East Bay communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stephen and Ayesha Curry step in to help Oakland schools ...

Sonoma State University is eliminating its entire Division II athletics program as part of a massive round of layoffs and program cuts ahead of a larger-than-expected budget deficit. Interim ...

The Bay Area is grappling with bone-chilling temperatures that will likely persist through the weekend and early next week, meteorologists say, and now, it’s possible that rain is entering the ...