On November 25 In 1986, addressing a packed White House press conference, President Ronald Reagan acknowledged something that would soon become the most serious political scandal since Watergate. In ...

This story was updated to include comment from West Contra Costa Unified and to exclude the requirement that the district make facilities updates, which was dropped in the appeal. A two-year court ...

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Gus Kramer, who was elected to eight consecutive terms as Contra Costa County Assessor over the past 32 years, has announced his intention to retire at the end of this year. Kramer said in a statement ...

This posthumous album of free improv pairs the late pedal steel virtuoso with a metal-adjacent guitar-and-drums duo, to bracing, gravity-defying effect. When you listen to enough improv ensembles, it ...

The action genre is a fairly nebulous one, with plenty of minor examples and riffs that stand out from other styles of gameplay. The most famous is likely the shooter, which serves as the ultimate ...

As the national ICE crackdown continues, Contra Costa County is responding to fears from the immigrant community with a legal office on wheels. The county held a ribbon cutting on Thursday for the van ...

An investigation is underway after a man died in custody at a Contra Costa detention facility on Sunday, authorities said. The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office said a deputy found an inmate ...

This piece has been copublished with Drop Site News. When a Southern Air Transport plane was shot down over Nicaragua in October 1986, the world got a rare window into U.S. government covert activity.

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students West Contra Costa Unified School District teachers, librarians, health care staff and counselors will ...