Contra Costa County Supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston on Tuesday called for a full facility audit of Martinez Refining ...

Thick, black smoke billowed into the sky from a fire at a Martinez refinery for nearly three hours Saturday before county ...

Christopher David Owens, 42, offered victims drugs or cigarettes, but also broke into one woman’s home, according to police.

Contra Costa County officials have lifted a shelter-in-place order that was placed after a fire erupted Saturday at the ...

Contra Costa Health on Tuesday afternoon lifted a public health advisory linked to a weekend fire at the Martinez Refining Company facility after confirming the fire is out. County health officials ...

Contra Costa County Library branches will feature games and events with authors and educators, bookmark giveaways and more.

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District is rolling out a new state-of-the-art fire rig, but it won’t be used to fight fires.

A Civil Grand Jury investigation last year in Contra Costa County found that the county’s emergency warning system was inadequate and could fail to alert up to 70% of residents in the case of ...

A man who lured a Contra Costa County minor into divulging sexually explicit images, then blackmailed the victim into sending more, has been sentenced to prison for so-called "sextortion ...

MARTINEZ — A 25-year-old Canadian man has been sentenced to two years in prison for sexually extorting a Contra Costa County minor in 2020, prosecutors said. Related Articles Crime and Public ...