San Ramon News

A Jordanian businessman has resurrected a decades-long quest to develop his Tassajara Valley grazing land.

Home automation industry folks, heads up: the ZigBee Alliance has announced the development of a Green Power feature set, which is the first step in creating a global standard technology for energy harvesting devices.

Tickets, $6-$10; parking, $8. www.alamedacountyfair.com . Free concert and family picnic - Noon to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Lions' Wayside Park, corner of Neal and First streets.

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Chevron Corp. on Monday, essentially ruling the energy company can't compel an Ecuadorean state-owned oil producer to share liability for alleged environmental damage.

Queen: Loyal subjects, the Queen is dazzled and amazed. Her Majesty included a paraphrase identified only as coming from a "court jester" in her June 24 column, without specifying whether it was uttered by a politician, or in a movie or a book.

Police are looking for two men who carjacked two people this afternoon in a hotel parking lot.

Firefighters and the California Highway Patrol investigate an accident that killed a bicyclist and caused major injuries to the driver of a car on Camino Tassajara in San Ramon, Calif., on Friday, June 26, 2009.

IT'S BEGINNING TO FEEL a lot like summer, and just in time for the city's Star Spangled Spectacular and all the festivities July Fourth at San Ramon's Central Park.

Bay Area freelance writer Deborah Grossman plans to bring prose to seniors, offer haikus on Twitter and launch a "famous poets" program during her tenure as the city's sixth poet laureate.

An elderly San Ramon woman who was reported missing early this morning has been found safe, San Ramon police Sgt.

An elderly San Ramon woman with Alzheimer's reported missing early Tuesday morning was found safe several hours later.

The Caifornia State Bar's decision to dump Scott Drexel as chief prosecutor has put it in a bit of a tight spot.

Taking a brief respite from trying times, hundreds of emigres from across the world gathered in an Oakland park on Friday to celebrate World Refugee Day.

Service district to fill seat: The Dublin San Ramon Services District's board of directors voted 4-0 to have the district develop a process to appoint a candidate for its vacant seat, following the death of boardmember Tom Ford earlier this month.

Jun 14, 2009 11:25 pm US/Pacific YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Park rangers on SundayA identifiedA aA hiker who fell to his deathA from Yosemite's Half Dome as a Bay Area man.

The day she was born at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek in 1985, Liz Castro was already famous.

Those with green waste or e-waste or clothes and housewares they want to recycle are in luck this wekeend.

The East Bay's largest water utility company enacted steep rate increases Tuesday to make up for declining revenues from the economic slowdown and customers using less water during the drought.

Hundreds of high-tech job losses this year alone are becoming a grim new challenge for a wobbly East Bay economy that's attempting to stabilize itself.

Rats and other health code problems have been found at a Round Table Pizza in San Ramon, and the company now faces an administrative hearing that will determine if criminal or civil charges should be filed, according to county health officials.