Train Carrying Wood Chips Catches Fire In Contra Costa County
A train traveling through Contra Costa County Monday left a billowing plume of smoke in its wake after one of its boxcars caught fire.
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A train traveling through Contra Costa County Monday left a billowing plume of smoke in its wake after one of its boxcars caught fire.
Top county officials in Contra Costa have joined other employees in having their salaries and benefits cut to help in closing a projected budget deficit of nearly $46 million.
Three of four juveniles who escaped from a youth detention center in east Contra Costa County on Monday were back in custody Tuesday, according to a sheriff's spokesman.
Doctors Medical Center San Pablo, the largest emergency facility in their area, is cash strapped and depending on a parcel tax to survive from closing.
Contra Costa County will pay nearly $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a knife-waving man who was shot by sheriff's deputies in an emergency room.
Many Bay Area parents are rushing to get their kids vaccinated against whooping cough in order to comply with a new state law.
A former private investigator in Contra Costa County indicted for allegedly stealing drugs from a state-run drug task force has pleaded not guilty to federal charges.
Contra Costa County supervisors on Tuesday gave the union representing its management staff one more week to concede to $3 million in cuts, threatening to impose a contract if no compromise was reached by Aug. 16.
Firefighters have contained a cluster of grass fires that broke out in the Oakley and Knightsen area Thursday afternoon, burning at least one home and threatening others.
Contra Costa County is developing a program that would quickly alert homeowners to potential real estate fraud by proactively notifying them of any transactions involving their property.
The future is uncertain for many of California's frail and elderly after Governor Jerry Brown rejected an alternative to Adult Day Care Services around the state.
Ongoing cuts at AC Transit have officials considering whether some parts of its bus operation could be turned over to Bay Area Rapid Transit.
Thousands of Contra Costa County students will get the benefit of not having to leave their schools for health care in the coming school year.
Property values have dipped slightly over the last year in Contra Costa County, with some cities feeling the brunt of the burden.
The U.S. Justice Department said eight real estate investors have agreed to plead guilty in a bid-rigging scheme to buy foreclosed real estate at public auctions in two Bay Area counties.
Contra Costa firefighters have managed to avoid layoffs while producing $6 million worth of savings for the county through a contract agreement.
Several thousand people participated, but emergency officials have since struggled to assess the effectiveness of conducting a regional drill such as this.
County public safety departments in Contra Costa have managed to narrowly avoid layoffs in the fifth consecutive year of budget reductions, but this may be short lived.
A man died and two boys were injured in a head-on crash on state Highway 4 in unincorporated Contra Costa County near Discovery Bay Friday afternoon.
Federal authorities on Friday officially took over the probe into former narcotics task force Commander Norman Wielsch and other so-called "rogue" police officers in Contra Costa County.
CBS 5 has learned that the federal government will be taking over the investigation into police corruption in Contra Costa County that includes accusations of drunk driving setups, the sale of confiscated drugs and the operation of a brothel.
PG&E crews completed their search Thursday afternoon for the source of an odor at the Walnut Creek courthouse that was thought to be natural gas, but found no gas leak anywhere in the area.
A former Contra Costa County police commander accused of running a brothel is now facing allegations that he used his police power to eliminate competing brothels.
The ex-commander of Contra Costa County's drug task force, already charged with a slew of drug crimes, is now under investigation for allegedly running a brothel.
Contra Costa County dog owners who fail to keep tabs on their pets may soon be forced to pay the price of getting them clipped and chipped.
