Vacaville News

A man has been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of two people in Vacaville.

Three teens setting off fireworks apparently started a 5-acre grass fire in Vacaville late Wednesday night, police said.

Vacaville police Officer Cary Ballard watches his K-9 partner Turk, a belgian malinois, clear a nearly 10-foot-high pyramid of barrels on the department's new K-9 obstacle course.

During the current streak of exceptionally hot weather, the city of Vacaville has once again opened several city facilities as places to come inside and beat the heat.

Months of hard work and careful planning didn't make the task of adopting a 2009-10 budget that addressed a state-imposed $12.3 million revenue reduction any easier for trustees in the Vacaville Unified School District on Thursday night.

Police are warning residents of a Jamaican lottery phone scam targeting seniors.

A 53-year-old man this week became the first person in Solano County to die from the H1N1 virus.

Vacaville police are looking for a gunman who robbed a woman early Wednesday on Aegean Way.

The California Department of Transportation has begun to conduct additional rolling lane closures along eastbound Interstate 80, from east of the North Texas Street on-ramp in Fairfield to east of the Leisure Town Road exit in Vacaville.

Disastrous fires are a fact of life in California. Some area residents recall "Black Thursday" in the late 1960s, a fire that virtually surrounded Vacaville.

Kaiser Permanente's new hospital in Vacaville will open this fall. The health care giant recently announced the planned opening, though no specific date has been set.

Solano County's Festival de la Isla, a salsa dance and music celebration, will take place Aug.

A Sacramento woman was arrested by Yolo County law enforcement officials on suspicion of grand theft, embezzlement and burglary charges after she allegedly "fleeced" retirees -- including one person in Vacaville -- out of almost $350,000 to pay for a daily gambiling habit.

Vacaville police arrested a man early this morning for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend in the arm.

In honor of Father's Day, Solano County Public Health's Solano Car Seat Connection program will hold two Spanish education and installation classes today.

A Vacaville man narrowly escaped harm Wednesday afternoon when an attempted bank robber held a gun to his head and ordered him to enter the financial institution.

Kaiser Permanente's new hospital in Vacaville will open this fall. The health care giant announced the opening today, though no specific date has been set.

Vacaville residents Emelia McFarland and daughter Marta graduated together from the University of California, Davis.

Vacaville police are asking for the public's help in finding two men believed to have robbed two convenience stores within minutes of each other on Monday night.

A man was injured Monday when his dirt bike plowed head-on into a van in rural Vacaville.