Kara St. Pittsburg police on Thursday announced they have arrested two women allegedly involved in an incident captured on video where one of the women kicked a small dog. The crown jewel of wholesale grocers is finally coming to Brentwood next month when a new Costco location opens its doors on March 7th.
A dozen East Bay cities in Contra Costa County have areas that fall into the "very high fire hazard severity" category, according to new maps released this week by the Office of the State Fire Marshal. An East Bay bowling alley that says it has been in business for over 60 years announced it will be closing for good on March 31st after the property it is on has been sold to developers.
With the Trump administration threatening to arrest thousands of undocumented immigrants, the need for space to detain them presents a logistical challenge that has officials looking towards a shuttered women's prison in the East Bay. Police in the East Bay are facing a new lawsuit for an incident where officers tasered a man who had just had a seizure and crashed his vehicle because he wasn't obeying officers' orders to get out of his car. A person died and three other people were injured in a head-on crash in Contra Costa County on Thursday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
For almost three years, the Gabe family has been fighting to get justice for their daughter, Alexis. But now, they said there isn't enough evidence to make the case they had hoped. Nearly three years after Alexis Gabe of Oakley went missing and was later found dead, prosecutors in Contra Costa County said there is not enough evidence to charge the mother of Gabe's ex-boyfriend as an accessory. Andrea Nakano reports. Contra Costa County Fire Protection District crews were doing work this week well ahead of the beginning of fire season to decrease the risk of wildfires in vegetation-dense East Bay neighborhoods.
Sooji Nam reports on ConFire crews doing fire mitigation work ahead of more serious wildfire risk. BART service in Eastern Contra Costa County resumed Thursday morning, hours after deadly overnight crash on Highway 4 in which a driver went off the roadway and ended up on the train tracks. With the recent wildfires in Southern California forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes, firefighters and emergency preparedness specialists in the Bay Area want to make sure you are ready in case disaster strikes.
