Winged visitors alien to the area have been casting their large shadows over Contra Costa and Stanislaus counties recently. Preservation group Save Mount Diablo said in a statement Monday they've tracked the paths of six California condors soaring through ...

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Contra Costa County, an area which may be larger than Contra Costa County itself.

Contra Costa County voters may want a clean break from ‘Bad Boy Assessor’ Gus Kramer’s legacy. But the other candidates in this race don’t cut it.

This county’s next superintendent will inherit some of state’s most financially strapped schools. It needs a fiscal expert. That is Eaton.

All three measures require a simple majority to pass, and as of 9:38 p.m. 68.9% of voters have voted in support of Measure A, 41.38% for Measure B, and 27.17% for Measure C.

MORE THAN 175 YEARS AGO, on the far east side of the San Francisco Bay, one of our state Legislature's original 27 counties was experiencing a boom in agriculture, industry and World War II military involvement.