Contra Costa County

If something happened in Martinez, Marty "Mr. Santa Claus" Ochoa was either there or knew all about it.

Police in San Pablo released surveillance video on Monday of an armed robbery of a taqueria worker after the worker returned from the bank, officials say. 

Meals on Wheels Diablo Region on Monday, put the word out that they are accepting donations of fans as a severe heat wave approaches mid-week for the inland areas of the Bay Area. 

Any business or organization can request a mobile vaccination clinic using an online form if they are in the county and CCHS will send a mobile health van to provide free vaccinations on site within one week after completing the request.

Three people were arrested in Concord on suspicion of driving under the influence during stepped-up DUI patrols in the city on Friday night, police said.

The California Highway Patrol has issued a Sig-Alert for the eastbound direction of I-80 in Pinole after a big rig carrying logs overturned, spilling its load across the roadway and blocking traffic.

Under a new Contra Costa County ordinance, owners can be held responsible for anyone using illegal fireworks on their property. Firefighters also demonstrated the dangers that fireworks present.

The stolen Pride flag used to belong to Aisha Horley, who identified as openly bisexual and died by suicide last year at the age of 19.

The historic East Brother Light Station, Richmond's oldest structure, has found a temporary solution to restore power to the bed and breakfast that operates within the light station after its 30-year-old submarine cable broke in April.

A Richmond-based medical cannabis company announced this week that it will offer select product for one cent when customers show their valid COVID-19 vaccination card.

Oakley police and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife spent much of the day Friday searching for a bear caught on home surveillance video wandering around a neighborhood in Oakley early Friday morning.

A fire that displaced 40 people from their homes in two Antioch apartment buildings was started by a suspect who threw an illegal firework, police said. 

Richmond's police chief is sounding the alarm about proposed cuts of $10 million to the department's budget.

The Orinda City Council on Tuesday will consider bringing back the city's annual Fourth of July Parade and associated activities, after last year's festivities were cancelled due to the pandemic.   

Danville and its Fourth of July parade partner, the Kiwanis Club of the San Ramon Valley, is moving the annual event to Labor Day weekend this year.

Pittsburg police released body cam video and the names of the officers who killed a young father who had been banging on his ex-girlfriend's door and then pointed a gun at them while retreating up an apartment complex stairwell.

Antioch police on Tuesday announced an arrest by deputy U.S. Marshals in the homicide of a 12-year-old girl from Oakland.