Pacheco News

In one of the larger lease deals in the nation recently Bank of the West has signed a long-term agreement for a 240,000-square-foot class B office building at Bishop Ranch, a nine-million-square-foot business park by Sunset Development Company, which still owns about half of the park's square footage.

South Whittier School District trustees have voted to declare an emergency in the 5,000-student district, thanks to a financial crisis that is prompting them to slash nearly a quarter of the $28.7 million budget in the 2009-10 fiscal year that began Wednesday.

Q I came back from Southern California on June 22 and Caltrans' highway information number said there were gusty winds on Highway 152, but had nothing about any construction anywhere.

For the first time in our county's modern history, we are the third-safest mid- to large county in California.

Each Sunday, the Star-Bulletin publishes Oahu vital statistics for marriage licenses and birth certificates filed with the state Department of Health's Vital Statistics System.

The 31 members of the 23rd class of Leadership Contra Costa, an eight-month civic leadership program presented by the Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce, went through their graduation ceremony June 4 at the Lafayette Park Hotel.

Early-morning musings on the longest day of the year Can't wait until July 4 to see fireworks? Brace yourself for plenty of ooh-and-ahh moments of explosion in the days ahead in Riverside.

It's a good week to be an Aurora music fan. Not only is Blues on the Fox just a few days away, but on Wednesday afternoon music lovers were treated to a free show by three local bands at Millennium Plaza on Stolp Avenue.

The atlas compiles investigations of 30 specialists regarding Chiapas indigenous peoples, who represent the 28.5 per cent of the entity's population.

Francisco de Zurbaran , Virgin of the Misericordia, 1634 © Photo Imagen M.A.S. Courtesy of Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville.

Concord finds itself the main character of not one, but two historical books published in the last two months.

The children arrive by the dozens each day, many suffering disfiguring and life-threatening injuries.

The parents of three toddlers being treated in Sacramento for serious burns suffered during a fatal fire at a day care center in Mexico say they don't blame the center's operators for the fatal blaze.

Bowling Green pitcher Matthew Moore threw seven innings of hitless baseball as the Hot Rods defeated the Asheville Tourists 10-2 on Saturday at McCormick Field.

A rocketing economy propelled Riverside County on a dizzying ride for a decade. Property values that jumped as much as 22 percent in a single year helped put more deputies on the streets, more code-enforcement officers in our neighborhoods and added services to protect our poor, young and elderly county residents.

The Riverside County grand jury has thrown down the gauntlet at the feet of the county Board of Supervisors concerning the district attorney's office.

A 23-year-old man who shot a visiting Nigerian in the head in 2005, leaving him on life support, is on his way to prison today for what could be a life term.

Five people who worked for an organization that used Mexican tour buses to transport drugs to Houston and the proceeds back to Monterrey, Mexico were sentenced to prison today.

The battleground in the latest fight over redevelopment in Martinez has shifted from downtown to a strip of homes and businesses in North Pacheco.

The Riverside County grand jury on Friday issued a harsh rebuke to county District Attorney Rod Pacheco, stating his authoritarian ways have led to "a pervasive climate of fear and intimidation within the D.A.'s office," and his disdain for settling cases has contributed to a court backlog.