Pleasanton News

Three people were sent to a hospital Friday afternoon following a head-on collision involving a wrong-way driver on a Pleasanton roadway, according to the Police Department.

A Broadway revue will be held to benefit Habitat for Humanity East Bay. Coldwell Banker in Pleasanton is hosting the revue in the garden courtyard of Acc'sentials, 520 Main St., at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

Safeway says its second-quarter profit rose to slightly beat Wall Street expectations as sales from its Lifestyle format stores lifted results.

With funding approved, the construction of the Firehouse Arts Center will finally get underway.

She was at the All Star Game in New York last night, but on Thursday, Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker is making an appearance at Stoneridge Shopping Center to promote her fragrances, Lovely Sarah ...

Tickets are still available for the Summer Wine Stroll, that will take place Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. The Pleasanton Downtown Association event is a great opportunity to taste wines from more than 30 regional ...

The City Council will meet tonight to discuss the wording of two competing ballot measures to be voted on in November.

Rep. Jerry McNerney is now willing to vote for an amendment he'd opposed last year that would bar the federal government from spending money to arrest or prosecute medical-marijuana patients in the states - ...

Potential renters in Redwood City experience less racial discrimination from rental agents than in nine other Bay Area localities, according to an annual housing audit by the Haward-based Eden Council for Hope ...

A Pleasanton woman who was allegedly severely beaten by her husband is recovering at home, police said.

SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area residents will face more extreme heat, poor air quality and fire danger Wednesday and Thursday, with temperatures expected to exceed 110 degrees in some areas, according to the National ...

Though Union Pacific says it is pretty rare in California, blisteringly hot weather can sometimes bend or cause micro fractures in rail lines which could cause a train derailment.

At least two political seats will be open in the Valley in the Nov. 4 general election.

Trying to beat the suffocating temperatures inside her cottage, one Pleasanton woman has spent the past several days in her car, the air conditioning on full blast, with her Boston terrier, Sweet Pea, by her ...

A veterans assistance workshop is planned for Saturday at the Pleasanton Veterans Memorial Hall with the cooperation of Congressman Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6298.

WHY IT'S COOL: At Sunol-Ohlone Regional Wilderness, you can see turtles sunning on a rock in a creek, turkey buzzards soaring in the air and spot some real live coyote scat alongside the trail.

Ring toss, Ferris wheels, tilt-a-whirls - and genealogy? The genealogy booth at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton seems to attract a high number of guests considering it operates out of a venue known more ...

Among the TV channels Shahryar Abbasi watches for fun is C-SPAN, the cable channel devoted to meetings of Congress and other governmental bodies.

Hoping to dissuade voters from adopting a resident-sponsored ballot measure to protect Pleasanton's hillsides, the City Council plans to place a competing measure on the November ballot.

Zebra and quagga mussels can heavily colonize fresh water systems and can alter the natural food web.