Walnut Creek-based Del Monte Foods announced Tuesday it's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is seeking a buyer.

Issue of my Graduate and Professional School Admissions Newsletter, I discuss the Master of Fine Arts degree and why artists ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Moments before an important budget vote last week, state Sen. María Elena Durazo stood on the Senate floor and spoke ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. For the last eight months, ever since Donald Trump walloped Kamala Harris to reclaim the presidency, Democratic ...

Keerthi Eraniyan (left) and Sanvi Panda (right) will represent their peers as the new student members on the Contra Costa County Board of Education starting August 2025 (Photo courtesy of CCCOE). The ...

A person died early Sunday in Walnut Creek after his vehicle struck a tree downtown on Ygnacio Valley Road. Police responded ...

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The San Ramon Planning Commission is set to review development agreements for two major projects in the ongoing development ...

It's been just a few months since the Agheli family took over Alberto's Cantina, a restaurant known as a staple in downtown ...

"It took what amounted to political blackmail against the Legislature, but Gov. Gavin Newsom finally achieved what his predecessor, Jerry Brown, could not — modifications to the heavily misused ...

This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. A lawsuit filed Wednesday by civil and immigration rights groups accuses federal authorities of unleashing an unconstitutional ...

A Walnut Creek man who followed a child into a library restroom in 2024 and sexually assaulted the minor was sentenced Thursday to more than six years in prison. Marc Alexander Simon, 28, pleaded ...