Fairfield News

A Vacaville man accused of the July gunshot slaying of a Suisun City man made a brief appearance in Solano County Superior Court on Wednesday.

Like other California school districts typically do in December, Fairfield-Suisun Unified will reshuffle its governing board when it meets tonight in open session in Fairfield.

It's amusing that the Solano County Board of Supervisors banned pot dispensaries the same week of the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.

They came into the fire service together and now, three decades later, two Fairfield Fire Department employees are calling it a career together.

A Fairfield public works crew cleans up West Texas Street near Gregory Street after a traffic accident involving a pickuptruck with a cargo trailer and a car, early Wednesday morning.

Fairfield police officers initially responded at approximately 1:15 p.m. to a report of an altercation involving a gun in the area of Bristol Lane and Tabor Avenue, said Sgt.

A Wednesday afternoon fire destroyed a recreational vehicle on the 200 block of Holly Drive, but Fairfield firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading to the homes on either side of the vehicle.

Police will conduct a DUI and drivers license checkpoint starting Friday at 7 p.m. at an undisclosed location within the city limits, traffic Sgt.

During Tuesday's meeting of the Travis Unified School District Governing Board, speaker after speaker, many of them unionized teachers, opposed the latest petition effort by a Rio Linda-based charter school group to align its Vacaville school with a Solano County district.

The Solano County Board of Supervisors approved a $3.4 million budget for operating the Solano Fair-grounds in the coming year -- funds that will include revenue from reserves in order to make ends meet.

It didn't take long before the room was filled with choking gray smoke so thick that breathing was impossible and visibility non-existent.

County Supervisor Jim Spering on Tuesday said he remains undecided about whether he will run for a third term in 2014.

Freshman state Assemblyman Jim Frazier visited eighth-grade students who petitioned the Fairfield-Suisun School District for a post-Halloween holiday and praised them Tuesday for their activism.

A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of shooting and wounding a 19-year-old in Fairfield on Monday evening, police said.

Auto Mall is revving up the local economy with sales up 32 percent compared to the same period last year.

Solano Republicans will gather this week to celebrate the holidays and to raise money for typhoon relief in the Philippines.

Police are seeking help from the public as they investigate allegations of child abuse against a Fairfield man that date back to the mid-1990s.

Police arrested a 40-year-old Fairfield man Friday who authorities say is suspected of molesting his nephew over a four-year period in the mid- to late-1990s.

Officers responded to Del Paso Court in the Parkway Gardens condominium complex after receiving reports of a shooting at 1:07 p.m., said Fairfield police Sgt.

On the eve of their jury trial Monday, a pair of 17-year-old Fairfield boys being prosecuted as adults took plea deals.