07/03/11 Southland cities celebrate and Queen Mary fireworks show caps evening.
06/09/11 Ducks prospect Emerson Etem is among five players from Southern California that are on the initial 40-man roster for the 2011 USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp, which will be held Aug. 6-13 at Lake Placid, N.Y.Etem, 18, is one of seven returnees from the U.S. team that won the...
06/01/11 The John Muir Medical Center-Walnut Creek saluted its volunteers with an outstanding brunch to complete John Muir Health s celebrations at its campuses, including Brentwood, Concord and Tice Valley/Rossmoor, for National Volunteer Week in April.
04/26/11 The second week in April was National Volunteer Week, and organizations in Central County held luncheons, brunches and presentations to honor their volunteers.
04/11/11 FREMONT -- Park rangers Rick Reed and Barry Skolout steered their boat onto a lake island and scoured the brush for hidden caches. Reed inched down a steep bank, pulled back leaves and twigs and uncovered a nest with 12 large Canada goose eggs.
03/30/11 The management of Leisure World in Aspen Hill estimates it would cost more than $141,000 to change the name of the 8,500-resident community.
03/29/11 Contra Costa's eastern and San Ramon Valley supervisorial districts must shrink, while their three counterparts in the western and central portions of the county must expand.
03/29/11 Census forces political boundaries to change, shrinking San Ramon Valley, eastern districts
03/24/11 The application deadline for the Lafayette Community Foundation's spring Excellence Grants is March 31.
03/23/11 John Littig taught English and Spanish at College Park High School for 35 years, and he couldn't keep from coming back after six years of retirement. He was at College Park, along with a team of four other trustees from the Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation, in order to interview potential recipients.
03/23/11 Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation's 40 years of giving local high school, DVC students a hand
03/23/11 LOS ALAMITOS - Residents who want to offer their input on a proposed transfer of a helicopter unit known as the "Ghost Riders" have until April 19.The Army is planning to transfer a unit with eight Black Hawk helicopters, 29 full-time personnel and 58-part time reserve soldiers...
03/18/11 HAYWARD -- Close to the geographic center of a city known as the "Heart of the Bay," Luciano Ruiz peered out the pickup window of a burger joint in what is, by one measure, the most racially diverse neighborhood in California.
03/18/11 Hayward is the second most diverse city in the state, second to Carson, a suburb in Los Angeles County. Pittsburg, San Pablo, Richmond, East Palo Alto and Suisun City also make the top 10 most diverse of California cities. Close behind are Vallejo, Oakland and San Leandro, along with many of the East Bay's unincorporated areas. Even in Rossmoor, the population is more diverse than a decade ago.
03/17/11 Bruce D. McVey, a former longtime resident of Pacific Palisades, died on February 13 at the age of 87. Bruce was born in rural Turlock, where he and his family experienced the bite of the Great Depression; he was a youngster when electricity finally came to their dairy farm.
03/15/11 LOS ALAMITOS The U.S. Army is proposing to transfer a reserve aviation company with eight Black Hawk helicopters from Victorville to the Joint Forces Training Base.Army officials are inviting the public to an open house Wednesday night to view exhibits about the plan to move the company to the...
03/12/11 When Allan Sloan hired a plumber to get to the bottom of his chronic plumbing problems, he discovere...
03/10/11 Joint Protection and Adaptive Devices -- 1-2:30 p.m. April 12. Strategies for using joints appropriately and labor-saving ideas and products that can make activities easier. Maffly Auditorium, Herrick Campus, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, 2001 Dwight Way, Berkeley. 510-204-4503.
03/10/11 South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa released anticipated opening dates for seven retailers, four of which are Orange County exclusives.Lego, which opened Wednesday, offers toy building bricks. The 2,000-square-foot store took over the former Timberland space by carousel court on level 1. Timberland,...
 02/28/11 While his fifth grade classmates at Marvin Elementary played Jeopardy to learn about nephrons and ne...
02/25/11 The gap between the average sale price of a foreclosed home and that of other properties grew wider ...
02/23/11 Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Fiona Ma will speak to the Rossmoor Democratic Club on Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Fireside Room at Gateway. Social hour begins at 5 p.m. with dinner to follow at 6. Ma will speak after dinner. There will be time for questions from the audience.
02/23/11 Walnut CreekClassical music concert for piano, voiceMembers of the Contra Costa Performing Arts Society will present a concert featuring solo piano works, soprano arias and songs at 8 p. | 
