Contra Costa County

A Contra Costa County couple faces child abuse and torture charges after their 11-year-old daughter was found dead in their home.

The same coyote responsible for five attacks over the past several months in the Lamorinda area of the East Bay has been caught and euthanized, authorities said Friday.

A gun, law enforcement badge and credentials were stolen from an FBI agent’s car over the weekend in Lafayette, the agency said.

Members of the Oakley Union Elementary School District Board of Trustees resigned Friday after they were caught on camera bashing parents before a virtual school board meeting Wednesday.

An East Bay private Chinese school program says its students, staff and parents were the victim of an online hate crime after their Chinese New Year celebration was hijacked Friday.

An investigation is underway for a leak that was spilling five gallons of petroleum product a minute into the San Francisco Bay Tuesday afternoon at the Chevron refinery long wharf in Richmond.

A prominent Contra Costa County doctor said he was reassigned Friday after questioning why the county went into a COVID-19 lockdown before the state mandate.

A kitten named “Kitty Love” caused quite a stir in Contra Costa County over the weekend after she climbed up six stories into a Cypress tree and could not get down.

An East Bay family woke up to find their new home vandalized with a profanity.

A significant spike in COVID-19 case rates and hospitalizations has forced officials in the Bay Area to roll back reopening plans.

Ryan Raimondi is not your typical high school senior. He’s an ambitious young man that is running for mayor in Brentwood, Contra Costa county. Whether he wins or not, Ryan has a bright future and we are excited to see all that he will accomplish.

The Contra Costa Healh Services confirmed Sunday five more cases of coronavirus in the county. According to a press release, four of the residents are being treated at hospitals in Contra Costa. They had not traveled outside of the U.S. and had no contact with a confirmed case. The fifth patient is isolated at home and had previous contact...

An inmate in solitary confinement at a California jail was refusing to leave his cell. The jailers’ usual response: Send an “extraction team” of corrections officers to burst into the cell and drag him out. But not in Contra Costa County, one of three in the state using a kinder, gentler approach in response to inmate lawsuits, a policy change…

A computer glitch affecting tens of thousands of voters statewide left one East Bay couple with no party affiliation on their voter registration—a mistake that would prevent them from voting in the Democratic Primary.

A Bay Area man who was aboard a skydiving plane during a terrifying mishap over Contra Costa County three years ago has come forward after that exact aircraft was involved in a deadly crash in Hawaii last week.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) ranked San Diego among the nation’s ten most dangerous counties for fatal accidents between trains and pedestrians.

San Diego was ranked among the top ten places for train track deaths in the U.S. NBC 7’s Mari Payton has more.

A former police officer suspected of being California’s elusive Golden State Killer was arraigned Thursday on 13-new rape-related charges along with 13 slayings spanning five counties, a 15-minute-long recitation of offenses that one family member called “very, very intense.” The Sacramento County Superior Court hearing sets up a trial that prosecutors this week agreed will eventually be held in the...

A massive sinkhole caused the collapse and closure of Alhambra Valley Road, near Pinole and Richmond, on Wednesday, according to the Contra Costa County Department of Public Works.

A Northern California sheriff’s deputy died Thursday while saving a friend in Lake Tahoe who had jumped into the water to save a friend, authorities said.