State champion Campolindo girls swim team along with the boys team. (Provided) What can be closer than a one-point victory? How about when the difference of that one point is only 0.14 of a second.

With work scheduled to begin this summer, The Orinda Pre-School (TOPS) has been raising concerns about the construction of the Vista Verde senior housing development. While repres ...

Moraga Commons Park was a blur of activity on the Fourth of July as residents – and their quaffed-out pets – gathered to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s indepen ...

Last month the Orinda City Council voted to provide money to local businesses to help them update their façades. The program will provide up to $10,000 for projects costing under $10,000, and for more ...

In what became a milestone in Moraga, Sue McNulty Rainey was elected to the Town Council in 1974 – the same year that the Town was incorporated. Not only was she the lone woman ...

I’ve been thinking about wardrobe staples for summer -- those simple pieces that we return to again and again, such as a pair of jeans, a cotton dress, a classic pullover sweate ...

There's a quote by American author Wendelin Van Draanen that says, "You never forget your first love." For Lafayette native Bryan Carmel and his classmate at College Prep High School, Chicago native ...

Within weeks work will resume on Wilder, the 1600-acre, high-end residential development in the Orinda Gateway Valley, following an agreement reached between OG Property Corporation, LLC, the property ...

The 40th official celebration of Independence Day will be kicked off in Orinda with a burrito breakfast-a change from the usual pancake breakfast--from 7:30 to 10 a.m. at Library Plaza. At 7:55 a.m.

Although the building isn't quite ready to regularly open to the public, the Friends of the Joaquin Moraga Adobe held a ribbon cutting ceremony and preview on Saturday June 29, to celebrate the ...

At noon on June 23, the opening celebration of the Tom Preston Memorial Fitness Zone at Rancho Laguna Park was slowly growing. Families stood in the summer sun examining and testing the eight pieces ...

The Acalanes basketball program recently conducted a fundraiser for the Lafayette Boys Basketball Association. Rather than raising money just for themselves, the boys wanted to support a worthy cause ...