DANVILLE — Santa Claus will be in Danville on Sunday at a San Ramon Valley fire station. The public is invited to attend from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Station No.

At least seven robberies may have been committed; one victim punched in face

The following are excerpts from the Walnut Creek Police Department:Saturday, Nov. 28 BURGLARY — A navigation system was reported stolen from a vehicle that was broken into overnight in the first block of Picardy Court.

Police continued to sort out cause and culpability for a brawl at Pinole Valley High School this week, even as they broke up an additional midday fight at the campus Wednesday.

Lucky finder will win a three-day stay in historic Palace Hotel Presidential Suite

The same suspect is linked to incidents occurring Tuesday and in June.

Suspect handed teller a note Tuesday at Bank of America

Deputy Chief David Kozicki, the highest-ranking Oakland police officer on scene when two SWAT officers were killed March 21, says he will retire within the next few weeks.

About 100 truckers who haul cargo for the Port of Oakland marched to Oakland City Hall and the Lionel Wilson state building Tuesday morning to draw attention to the fact that a lack of state funding may very well put them out of work on Jan. 1. That's when tough new state air quality rules go into effect for drayage trucks that serve California's ports. Trucks older than 1994 are banned. Engine models 1994 through 2003 must be outfitted with special diesel filters.

The City Council voted 5-2 at its Tuesday night meeting to allow a restaurant and nightclub to set up shop downtown. The Me Restaurant and Nightclub would be located at B Street, next to Newman Park.

Tiger Woods has been voted Athlete of the Decade by members of The Associated Press, his 10 years of incomparable golf outweighing nearly three weeks of a salacious sex scandal.

However, rocker has butted heads with hikers, open space advocates, over how planned trails will affect his property

San Francisco, which was at the vanguard of the anti-smoking movement more than a decade ago when it became one of the first American cities to bar people from lighting up in the workplace, now is poised to enact much tougher restrictions on smoking in public...

About 800,000 doses of swine flu vaccine for young children were recalled in the United States on Tuesday when the manufacturer discovered that the vaccine wasnt as potent as it should be. Most of the doses - some of which were received in the Bay Area -...

Riverside County authorities have confirmed that charred remains found in a Southern California backyard last month are those of a missing teenager. Coroners officials announced Tuesday that DNA testing confirmed the remains _ which included a severed foot _...

Metallica frontman James Hetfield is donating 330 acres overlooking Californias Lucas Valley for preservation as farmland. The Marin County Board of Supervisors unanimously accepted the donation Tuesday. It follows Hetfields earlier gift to the county of...

New studies that show CT scans may pose a higher cancer risk than previously thought are especially unnerving to patients like Maria Parker, who has already been diagnosed with cancer. Great. Its just one more thing we have to worry about, said Parker, 38...

A lawsuit accusing a Bay Area flight-planning company of aiding an alleged CIA program of kidnapping and torturing terror suspects threatens national security and is too sensitive to discuss fully in a public courtroom, an Obama administration attorney argued...