A Walnut Creek restaurant is helping first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

A Walnut Creek restaurant is helping first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nurses at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Walnut Creek are on the frontlines of treating people who may be infected with COVID-19 and on Monday night, they held a protest to let people know they don’t feel protected. Cheryl Hurd reports. “We ask for 10 masks and we may only get two,” said nurse Marissa Nonaka. A Kaiser Permanente spokesperson in…

Walnut Creek planning commissioners on Thursday will host a public hearting on a proposed three-building mixed commercial/residential project on Mount Diablo Boulevard downtown. The overall project, called 1532 Mount Diablo Boulevard, would be on three-quarters of an acre at the intersection of Mt. Diablo and Locust Street, between Locust and Main streets. The proposed two-phase project consists of three buildings,…

Saying that it was the right project in the wrong place, Walnut Creek City Council members in the wee hours of Wednesday rejected plans for an Amy’s Drive-Thru vegetarian restaurant, more than two years after it was first proposed.

A man who died in a condominium fire in Walnut Creek early Saturday morning has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner’s office as 73-year-old Richard Canal Sr. Canal died in the fire reported around 5:30 a.m. Saturday in a third-floor unit at The Keys condo complex on North Civic Drive. Crews contained the fire, which also injured...

A fire at a condominium in Walnut Creek left one person dead and a dog injured early Saturday morning. The Contra Costa County Fire Department received a call at 5:23 a.m. regarding a a fire alarm at the Keys Condominiums on the 400 block of North Civic Drive. Officials confirmed the victim, identified only as an adult male, died of…

Police are investigating a shooting that left at least one injured in Walnut Creek. The shooting was reported at around 6 p.m. near the intersection of Parkside Drive and Rivera Avenue. A witness working at a gas station nearby said to have heard three shots fired but didn’t see anything else. Another witness said a man was walking from...

A Las Lomas High School student was arrested after being found with a loaded handgun on campus, Walnut Creek police said. The Walnut Creek Police Department at 11:13 a.m. Thursday received a report of a student with a concealed gun at the school. A school resource officer on campus quickly detained the student. Police said the student’s backpack was...

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A man delivered his son in a car on the side of a Northern California freeway and then called off an ambulance and drove the baby boy and the mother to a hospital.

A 101-year-old man died in a fire at a eight-unit residential building in the Rossmoor older-adult community in Walnut Creek on Saturday, the Contra Costa County coroner’s office said Monday.

An attorney is filing a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was allegedly racially profiled by BART police in Walnut Creek last week, the attorney for the man said Wednesday.

The Concord, Clayton and Walnut Creek police departments are teaming up next month for a gun buyback event where residents can exchange firearms for gift cards.

Half of Richmond’s at-large City Council may have to step down in the next election as the city changes to district-based elections in an effort to avoid costly civil rights litigation with Walnut Creek attorney Scott Rafferty.

Thirty years ago Thursday, the Loma Prieta earthquake rocked the Bay Area, shaking buildings from their foundations, flattening a freeway in Oakland and dislodging a section of the Bay Bridge.

Update: 7:25 p.m. Tuesday: A 3.4 magnitude earthquake rattles the same area north of Walnut Creek where a larger 4.5 magnitude quake was centered Monday and felt across the Bay Area.

The Bay Area marks the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake on October 17th. If you were in the Bay Area on that day in 1989, you knew where you were and what you were doing at 5:04 p.m. when the 6.9 quake rocked the region. In this installment of our award-winning documentary, we’ll take a look at how…

Developers in the East hope to put a dent in the Bay Area housing crisis with a new construction project in the works in Walnut Creek.