Fairfield News

After several years of pay cuts and furlough days, Travis Unified teachers, school support and management employees on Tuesday finally heard some good financial news.

The salary gap between men and women is smaller in Sonoma County than almost any other place in the United States, according to a new study that singles out the area as one of the best places in the country for women to work.

As Solano Community College and Napa Valley College look to the fall semester, many officials said they're relieved they don't have to enact budget cuts to close a looming deficit .

The fair has added one group each year since 2010 and the Inter-Tribal Council will join the Filipino Community of Solano County, the Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce and the Solano Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

A Solano County Superior Court jury on Tuesday began deliberating whether a Fairfield man convicted of murder for the killing of his neighbor was legally insane at the time.

A grass fire along Interstate 80 in Fairfield quickly spread to a nearby three-story motel, shut down a freeway onramp and created a spectacle that saw people lining up along Central Place and Suisun Valley Road to watch firefighters in action.

Fairfield Fire Battalion Chief Bob Ftoffel said the grass fire was less than an acre when it spread to the Motel 6 at 4376 Central Place in Suisun Valley.

Jurors began deliberating the question of whether a Fairfield man was insane on the night of June 14, 2010, when he stabbed and killed a neighbor after they spent the evening drinking heavily.

Kappel & Kappel Realty and Gateway Realty have merged and purchased a Coldwell Banking franchise, creating a realty powerhouse in Solano County.

A requirement that Solano County's upcoming Level II trauma center provide labor and delivery service has become an issue, though how big an issue remains to be seen.

An alcohol compliance sweep by Fairfield police on Saturday netted two people suspected of buying alcohol for minors, authorities reported.

Home-improvement retail chain Orchard Supply Hardware, which has six North Bay stores, today filed for Bankruptcy Court reorganization protection and has inked a $205 million tentative deal with Lowe's Home Improvement, which has four North Bay stores, to acquire many of the OSH stores.

A report of a grass fire on the 1300 block of Woolner Avenue came in about 12:20 p.m. A first-alarm was called, which brought three more engines to the scene.

Nina Newton, of Fairfield, stops to take a video of a grass fire near the corner of Woolner and Pennsylvania avenues, Monday.

On the floor of the House of Representative last week, Congressman John Garamendi, D-Solano, lauded EDF Renewable Engery who started a program at Rio Vista High School to promote job training in green industry.

Fairfield police and the California Highway Patrol closed down Lyon Road Monday morning to search the nearby fields and hills for four Hispanic men who ran from their Acura Integra after it hit a Buick Lucerne on westbound Interstate 80. More than a dozen Fairfield police, backed up by a CHP aircraft, fanned out through the area around the ... (more)

Susan DeMichelle founded DeMichelle Deposition Reporters in 1975 in Napa. She moved the main office to Fairfield about 15 years ago, keeping the Napa office.

For the past several weeks, we have celebrated our successful high school graduates in Solano County.

Do you have craft items that others are always saying you should sell? If so, Fairfield officials say you may want to consider participating in the annual Home and Garden Craft Fair at the Fairfield Senior Center.

It's not that he was afraid of the live ones, crawling around the bottom just a few inches from his fingers, he was simply doing a good deed.