Mt. Diablo

Mt. Diablo High School’s Class of 2022 will be a little larger than planned as 40 Japanese American students, who were denied their diploma eight decades ago, will be honored along with this year’s graduates.

Mt. Diablo High School’s class of 2022 is a little larger than planned because some former students, who never got a chance to walk the stage, will be honored right along with this year’s graduates. Jodi Hernandez reports.

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report Wednesday on the plane crash that killed a student pilot earlier this month in the Mt. Diablo area of unincorporated Contra Costa County, but did not reveal the cause of the crash.

An East Bay family was in mourning Sunday after a plane crash near Mount Diablo on Friday killed the pilot.

A plane that was flying from Hayward to Lincoln crashed Friday near Mount Diablo State Park and left one person dead.

Happy couples hoping to shout their love from the mountaintops can do just that from one of the Bay Area’s highest peaks.

A redistricting proposal that would carve out five affluent Walnut Creek schools from the Mt. Diablo Unified School District will not have a discriminatory impact on minority students, according to an independent review released earlier this week.

A large East Bay school district is setting the stage for what appears to be a nasty divorce.

An injured mountain biker was rescued Saturday from Mt. Diablo in unincorporated Contra Costa County by a county sheriff’s helicopter, sheriff’s officials said Sunday.

Highlands Elementary School in Concord stands to lose about half of its students and eliminate at least 15 teaching positions if a controversial proposal to split the Mt. Diablo Unified School District is successful, according to the school’s principal.

A hiker with a severely broken ankle was rescued by a helicopter crew from a remote trail on Mt. Diablo Saturday afternoon, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department.

In a final public hearing before the Contra Costa County Board of Education, scores of parents and teachers on Wednesday night condemned a proposed split of the Mt. Diablo school district and slammed ongoing secession efforts as discriminatory and elitist.

Northgate High School in Walnut Creek is the epicenter for a contentious debate over accountability and exclusion.

A storm that touched down in the Bay Area late Thursday brought strong wind gusts that reached over 70 mph in some places.

Meet Stephen Joseph and marvel at his photographs Stephen and see some of his latest photographs of Mt. Diablo, the Vasco Caves hidden in East Bay Hills and the ancient trees of Muir Woods.