CPUC fines PG&E millions for safety breaches

28 January 2012, 12:39 am

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s failure to conduct required gas leak surveys on nearly 14 miles of its distribution system in eastern Contra Costa County - including one Danville neighborhood ignored for two decades -...... Read More »

Antioch Chamber to perform at Bernards High on Feb. 4

27 January 2012, 12:19 am

BERNARDSVILLE – The internationally award-winning chamber choir Antioch Chamber Ensemble will perform at the Somerset Hills Performing Arts Center at Bernards High School at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4,... Read More »

Ed Arnow: Informal poll shows voters all over the map on whether to raise taxes or cut services

25 January 2012, 2:30 pm

It's a pretty sure thing we'll be voting in June on whether to pay some more taxes or make some big cuts in California's government services. If we're unwilling to pay for preventing the cuts, the squeeze will be across the board.... Read More »

Antioch moves to take over redevelopment agency responsibilities

24 January 2012, 10:34 pm

ANTIOCH -- City leaders formally agreed Tuesday night to assume the task of winding down affordable housing programs and other set payments once handled by its now-defunct redevelopment agency.... Read More »

Hard-to-see tower tied to Antioch crop-duster plane crash

24 January 2012, 9:53 am

Federal investigators say the pilot of a crop-duster plane probably didn't see the 198-foot weather tower before a deadly crash in Northern California last year. Fifty-eight-year-old Stephen Allen died when his S-2R Thrush Commander crashed into the tower on Webb Tract Island northeast of the An... Read More »

Antioch Shooting: Six Hurt During Attack At California 'Sweet Sixteen' Party

23 January 2012, 12:51 am

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Six people, including five teens, were injured when gunfire erupted at a girl's 16th birthday party in the San Francisco Bay area, authorities said Sunday.... Read More »

Five teenagers and an adult shot as Sweet Sixteen party ends in bloody mayhem in upscale neighbourhood

22 January 2012, 6:38 pm

Police in Antioch, California, believe three or four male partygoers opened fire Saturday night when two groups began arguing at the party in the garage of a house.... Read More »

6 hurt during shooting at Calif. teen party

22 January 2012, 3:09 pm

Police in Northern California say six people, mostly teens, have been injured during a shooting at a girl's 16th birthday party.... Read More »

Derelict ferryboat moved from Delta to be scrapped

19 January 2012, 5:42 pm

A pair of tugboats towed the rusted vessel, moored off a small Delta island about five miles north of Antioch for the past decade, to Mare Island Wednesday -- part of a broader effort to rid the Delta of derelict boats.... Read More »

Antioch: Highway 4 exit open after car fire forced closure

6 January 2012, 5:14 pm

ANTIOCH -- The Somersville Road exit on Highway 4 in Antioch is open again after being shut down Friday afternoon when a car caught on fire, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said.... Read More »