Sitting in the shadow of majestic Mount Diablo, the town of Danville offers a downtown area dotted with shopping spots and eateries, a highlight on history with the Museum of the San Ramon Valley and a tribute to America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill. Strolling along Hartz Avenue and a few of its cross streets in Downtown ...

The Berkeley teen arrested and charged with murder this week for the death of a San Ramon Valley High School senior in January was arrested five months later for burglarizing three Berkeley homes, court records show.

It's a ritual handed down through the generations you don't think much about until someone pulls out a frighteningly large knife and tells you to slice up a giant fowl - in front of witnesses.

A 19-year-old Oakland man was charged today with murder in the death of a 17-year-old San Ramon Valley High School senior fatally shot outside his Danville home during a marijuana deal-turned-attempted robbery in January.

A new report on police services is recommending that the Town of Danville may be better served financially by either forming its own police department or contracting out with a new provider.

The Danville Town Council has banned medical marijuana dispensaries for one year.

Valerie Brown, president of the National Association of Counties, announced the appointment of Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty to chair its Transportation Steering Committee.

An early-morning fire caused severe damage to one home and scorched another before it was put out, the San Ramon Valley Fire District said.

Janice Stompro attacked her breast cancer aggressively after her diagnosis. She underwent a double mastectomy and four months of chemotherapy, crediting the latest technologies with also saving her mother from the disease.

Some 15 million people visit Washington, D.C., each year. But leave it to Danville Vice Mayor Mike Doyle to spend some time hobnobbing with Vice President Joe Biden in a White House hallway.

U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerney and state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier were in attendance but more people were vying to pose for photos with Snoopy at the grand opening of the renovated Village Theatre Art Gallery on Saturday.

CHANCES ARE, if you have recently had a child in the fourth grade in the San Ramon Valley, they know more about the early residents of this area than you do.

An Oscar-caliber cast and dazzling visual effects can't rescue this formulaic disaster flick from a script flooded with generic dialogue and preposterous plot points.

A San Francisco Bay area high school principal on administrative leave for allegedly handling a pellet gun inappropriately in front of a student is being replaced.

A Diablo man jailed on domestic violence charges is accused of trying to get a fellow inmate to murder his wife.