Contra Costa health officials expand MPX vaccine eligibility
Health officials in Contra Costa County announced Tuesday that eligibility has expanded for the monkeypox (MPX) vaccine, as supplies increase.
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Health officials in Contra Costa County announced Tuesday that eligibility has expanded for the monkeypox (MPX) vaccine, as supplies increase.
The Crockett-Carquinez Fire Department is responding Tuesday to a reported 10-acre vegetation fire in the same area where a 125-acre fire burned near Rodeo a day earlier.
Officials have identified the two men who escaped the Marsh Creek Detention Facilty Sunday morning.
Officials with the East Bay Regional Parks District have closed dozens of park spaces during the holiday weekend due to increased fire danger from forecast heat.
The family of an Antioch man died in police custody said they are disappointed the officers involved won't face any criminal charges.
Firefighters in the East Bay are bracing themselves for having to answer calls amid the intense temperatures of the current wave.
A road-rage incident in Pittsburg Friday afternoon injured a 12-year-old girl after she was shot, according to the Pittsburg police department.
A driver died in a solo-vehicle rollover crash in Byron in eastern Contra Costa County on Monday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Five elementary schools and a charter school were vandalized in the West Contra Costa County Unified School District over the summer, but a donation from Chevron Richmond Refinery could make recovering a bit easier.
A 15-year veteran deputy of the Contra Costa County sheriff's office has been arrested on several felony counts related to illegal weapons
Contra Costa County rescinded its order Tuesday requiring first responders and other emergency personnel to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or test regularly for the virus.
Contra Costa Health Services recently announced that an increase in monkeypox vaccine supply enabled the county to open online appointment booking without a waiting list.
A new report by the Bay Area Equity Atlas says 10 percent of the region's census tracts are segregated "areas of white wealth."
Family, friends and supporters on Friday called on the Contra Costa County DA to file charges in the Alexis Gabe case with a rally.
A Clayton man was arraigned on Tuesday on weapons charges stemming from an allegation that police seized 132 guns from his property.
The first invasive mosquito species has been found in Contra Costa County, according to the Contra Costa Mosquito & Vector Control District.
Crews have contained a three-alarm vegetation fire that at one point threatened structures in Martinez Thursday afternoon, according to authorities.
The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District named its first female assistant fire chief this week as part of a reorganization, district officials announced Wednesday.
The Contra Costa District Attorney's office has filed a felony assault charge with two enhancements against a former Richmond police officer.
Fire crews in the East Bay had their hands full early Wednesday evening after a brush fire burned dangerously close to several commercial buildings.
A jury has just ruled the death of Tyrell Wilson was a homicide. He was shot nearly a year and a half ago in a daytime confrontation on a Danville street. Shawn Chitnis reports. (7-22-22)
A jury at a Contra Costa County coroner's inquest hearing Friday unanimously found the death of a transient who was shot by a Danville police officer last year to be a homicide.
The first day of school is just weeks away in the Mount Diablo Unified School District but the district still doesn't have enough teachers for all of its classrooms.
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a driver in Contra Costa County earlier this year.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that contains a resolution asking the US Navy to fully exonerate sailors convicted of mutiny following the Port Chicago explosion in 1944.
