At the last City Council meeting of the year Lafayette's outgoing mayor, Mike Anderson, announced the new mayor for 2014, Don Tatzin, after a unanimous vote by fellow council members. This marks ...

Lucas Lambert got the call at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Of course he knew why. The Oakland Fire Department needed help, and as a member of the East Bay Incident Management Team, an inter-agency all-risk ...

Entrepreneurship must be in Orinda resident Thalia Bradley's genes; how cool is it for a 12-year-old to be at the initiation of an invention, and the creation of a product that blew all expectations ...

Born and raised in Little Rock, Ark., longtime Lamorindan Leslie Darwin O'Brien began singing when she was just 6 years old. "Our house was filled with so much joy; we had hardwood floors so the music ...

The Rotary Club motto is succinct: Service above self. At its Nov. 29 luncheon at the Orinda Community Center, the Rotary Club of Orinda honored a group that lives that motto each and every day: the ...

The November election brought a new member to the Moraga Town Council - former planning commissioner Teresa Onoda. Passionate about plein air and open space, Onoda brings a fresh outlook to the town's ...

One of our Lamorinda Weekly reporters and I love to exchange recipes. Sora O'Doherty is always sending delicious ideas my way, and a couple of months ago she sent me photos of her holiday sugar ...

With a history dating back to 1914, the red and white cluster of buildings along Moraga's School Street has become an unofficial landmark in the town. The first influential property owner was James ...

Joanna Guidotti grew up in Orinda and has strong ties to the community, even though she left to open Churchill Manor in Napa 30 years ago. She inherited a half ownership in Country Club Plaza from her ...

Construction on the east side of the 4th bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, October 2010. Photo Albin Reinhart Tunnel building technology has changed significantly since a group of merchants from Oakland ...

It was more than four years ago that Pamela Vitale, wife of defense attorney and television legal analyst Daniel Horowitz, was brutally murdered in the entry way of a mobile home the couple was living ...

Orinda and Lafayette police blotters continue to be unavailable while the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department re-structures its distribution. But that doesn't mean Lamorindans need to go without ...