"Casa del Pomba -- the name of my home -- means 'house of the dove.' The dove is the symbol of hope, and our hope is that COVID-19 goes away," Deacon Dave Rezendes said about his decision to call off his annual holiday light display.

Rising Bay Area rapper Lil Yase (Alexander Mark Antonyyo Jr.) died at a local hospital after being shot multiple times near the eastern BART station in Dublin over the weekend. He was 26.

Impact 100 East Bay is on a mission. Since 2016 it has united women in the community to each contribute $1,000 every year, which adds up to a substantial annual grant to help people in need.

Join Museum on Main for "A Discussion with ..." documentary street photographer Tao Guan at 7 p.m. this Saturday (Dec. 5) on the museum's YouTube Live Channel.

Firefighters battled an outdoor fire that ignited in a large pile of cardboard and wood pallets at a Livermore packaging company on Sunday night.

Two adults and two children were displaced after their home caught fire on the north side of Dublin on Sunday afternoon, according to the Alameda County Fire Department.

The good news: The recession California officials predicted in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic has not been as dire as they thought it would be. The bad news: The $26 billion windfall reveals a
stark economic divide.

After more than a year of construction, the Harvest Park Middle School library recently finished being rebuilt. Work on the building was needed after it was damaged by a fire in 2018.

Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority is driving change on local roads and inviting the public to hop aboard its shared autonomous vehicle (SAV) for the first time earlier this month.

Neither flat tires nor mangled bikes nor pandemic can keep the Gagnon family from loading up their RV to travel cross country to revel in the glory of its national parks.

Pleasanton Mayor Jerry Thorne (left) handed out the final Mayor's Award of his four-term tenure during a virtual ceremony that also included Thorne's peers offering special recognition to the city's outgoing mayor. The 2020 Mayor's Award winner was Chris Miller (right).

The city of Pleasanton has unveiled the schedule for its weeklong virtual holiday celebration this week that will culminate with the Dec. 5 debut of its tree-lighting ceremony video recently recorded downtown.

Lauren Swenson-Lennox of Pleasanton has become the Tri-Valley's first female Eagle Scout, completing her Board of Review on Oct. 30. She is a founding member of Troop 998G formed in February 2019.

Chabot-Las Positas Community College District welcomed its new vice chancellor of business services, Jonah Nicholas, to his first day on the job this month.

Celebrate the holiday season at City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon as the lifestyle center lights up with festive community activities and sparkling decorations. See that holiday event, and many others, on the docket across the Tri-Valley.

Pleasanton's historic Castlewood Country Club now has a new name to herald its $16 million remodeling and upgrading project that will launch next spring. It is now called The Club at Castlewood.

This marks the beginning of the 2020-21 Pleasanton Weekly Holiday Fund, a fundraising campaign that will provide vital financial assistance to six core Tri-Valley nonprofits amid the COVID-19 pandemic this winter.