Hercules News

Some Hercules residents are calling for a more open city government, complaining that City Council meetings are long on ceremonial matters while much of the business of the city gets conducted out of public sight.

Che Barnes' twin brother, Noah, talks about the pilot near where Che once recovered Noah's wedding ring on the family farm.

Lt. Cmdr. Che Barnes piloted the Coast Guard C-130 Hercules rescue plane that crashed Thursday in the ocean off San Diego.

Isha Gautam, who participated in the documentary "Going on 13" some years ago, is photographed at home in Hercules, Calif.

The shadow of the plane appears on the water below as a crewman looks out of the back of a Coast Guard C-130 Hercules airplane on a training mission out of McClellan Air Force base on Wednesday, March 10, 2004.

The Rodeo-Hercules Fire District board has condemned member Bill Prather over an alleged discriminatory remark against women that someone reported overhearing in a bar.

An elderly woman was killed this evening after driving the wrong way on Interstate 80 and striking another car head-on, the California Highway Patrol reported.

WestCat's Transbay Lynx bus service, which normally connects Hercules/Rodeo and San Francisco, has been redirected to the El Cerrito Del Norte BART station pending reopening of the Bay Bridge.

Author and television cooking show personality Martin Yan will give a free talk and cooking demonstration at 7 p.m. Monday at the Hercules Library, 109 Civic Drive.

A Hercules waterfront-area restaurant where the chief executive of the city's affordable housing contractor recently worked part time as a server received a business loan from the Hercules Redevelopment Agency of almost five times the maximum amount, records show.

Jonathan Perez frequents the Berkeley skatepark, but now he doesn't have to leave his hometown of Richmond to practice his sport.

She's still in college, and until recently waited on tables at a Hercules waterfront restaurant, but at 20-something, Taylor Oliva already has three years' tenure as president and CEO of a company with a multimillion-dollar portfolio.

Share + Comments Oct 20, 2009 12:17 am US/Pacific HERCULES Hercules police are asking anyone with information about a shooting that injured two people at a party Saturday night to come forward, a spokeswoman for the city said Monday.

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Two shot: A juvenile was shot in the leg and another in the rear end Saturday night.

Hercules officials have settled on an intermodal transit station design with an 85-foot-high clock tower that would be visible from Interstate 80 and even from across the Bay, a beacon they hope will beckon visitors to the nascent surrounding neighborhood's future shops and restaurants.

I started my career in public service 38 years ago as a civilian employee of the San Francisco Police Department and worked in several other departments, as well.

The San Pablo City Council, for reasons somewhat unclear, seems poised to switch the rotation of the mayor and vice mayor positions from December to June.

Martha Booz would like to see a regular farmers market in El Sobrante, and she is trying to find out how her neighbors feel about the idea.

The Contra Costa County Board of Education is accepting applications through Nov.