Vallejo News

Share + Jul 6, 2009 10:30 pm US/Pacific More Local News Reporting Ron Jones VALLEJO, Calif.

California's ongoing budget crisis provides ample evidence that public employee unions wield immense - even hegemonic - influence over the Capitol's Democratic majority.

It will still be months before portions of the downtown Casa de Vallejo senior housing complex untouched by an August 2008, fire are reopened.

Vallejo police were questioning three males in connection with a shooting that took place about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 300 block of Valle Vista Avenue, a police spokesman said.

While many Bay Area commuters are finding that riding BART or the bus costs a bit more, Vallejo Transit fares are holding steady, and no increases will be proposed in the near future, a city transportation official says.

Forty years later, the case of the Zodiac Killer remains unsolved. But San Franciscan Ken Hurst has a theory.

The infamous pedophile who molested and murdered Vallejo's Xiana Fairchild did the same to another 7-year-old in Pinole, authorities said this morning as they formally ended their 21-year search for Amber Swartz-Garcia. Amber vanished the afternoon of June 3, 1988, last seen skipping rope in front of her home on the 3400 block of Savage Avenue.

A massive wildfire in Vallejo Friday night shut down several lanes of Interstate 80 and threatened nearby neighborhoods.

Fire Officials in Vallejo think a downed power line at the California Maritime Academy may have caused a nine-alarm grass fire that burned 75 acreas and took firefighters all night to control.

Joey Chestnut, 25, of Vallejo won his third straight July Fourth hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island, consuming 68 in total and setting a new record.

A downed power line at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo appears to have ignited a nine-alarm grass fire that burned for more than six hours Friday night and this morning, a Vallejo assistant fire chief said.

Solano County advocates have targeted Vallejo as "ground zero" to push for tobacco licensing control.

Firefighters were battling a massive alarm fire near the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, fire officials said Friday night.

Action on a court injunction aimed at curtailing the activities of the Norteo street gang in Fairfield was postponed Thursday after an attorney successfully moved to disqualify a Superior Court judge.

Cordero Kelly, 19, of Rodeo is being held at the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez in lieu of $1.1 million bail.

In a move certain to draw national ridicule and exact financial hardship on business owners and taxpayers across the state, California is slated today to begin paying billions of dollars in bills with IOUs instead of cash.

A new fiscal year in Vallejo kicks off this morning with the closure of the city's third of eight fire stations, this time on Mare Island.

It's been 21 years since Camp Treillond -- a.k.a. "Vallejo Day Camp," bid farewell to its last camper.

County agricultural officials announced Monday that two light brown apple months were detected Friday in separate areas of Fairfield.

Vallejo police have identified 17-year-old Demar Anderson of Fairfield as the city's sixth homicide victim of the year.