Believe it or not, we have arrived at the start of the high school football season as both Amador Valley and Foothill start their campaigns this Friday night. (Our 2018 football preview issue will run on next Friday.)

The school board heard an update on the HPMS library fire repairs and honored first responders from that fateful night.

And as a longtime staple in the Tri-Valley, Farner has seen plenty of transition, from bus technological developments to change with her passengers as she watched them grow from her bus-driving days within school districts, to her time with Wheels.

Blues-rock band Indigenous, featuring second generation bluesman Mato Nanji (shown), will take The Bankhead Theater stage at 8 p.m. Friday night, joined by guitarist Chris Duarte and his "ferocious blues" style.

SB 10 leaves many details of risk assessment implementation to each county. The same score -- received through the same assessment -- could have different results depending on how a county implements the tool.

Don't be surprised by the blue and yellow Big Top hoisted over the Alameda County Fairgrounds this weekend -- the circus is coming to town, with a piratical twist.

A young man who died in a solo-vehicle crash on Mines Road in unincorporated Alameda County outside Livermore on Sunday morning has been identified by the Alameda County coroner's bureau as 19-year-old Jon Gullette of Tracy.

A multi-agency investigation continues into the death of a Pleasanton man who died at a local hospital while in police custody last week after allegedly acting erratically in a grocery store and attacking officers trying to detain him.

Marilyn Slade calls herself an "Exaggerator-in-Chief." It all started in grade school, when she wrote about her first airplane flight for a class assignment, trying to capture the thrill and terror of the expedition. Her teacher liked the story, reading it aloud to the rest of the class.