East Contra Costa

Knowing restaurants were heavily impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns, Pittsburg will soon offer free help to modernize their operations and grant opportunities to stay afloat. Dubbed Pittsburg Eats, the new program…

Antioch will no longer restrict tobacco products based on package size or price. The changes come after the City Council heard many outcries in March and again this week from small shop owners and others who complained that the new…

If you ever tasted fresh Filipino sweet bread called sēnorita bread you’d know why far East County residents are excited that a Starbread Bakery has opened in Brentwood. One sniff of the warm, oblong yeasty roll fresh from the oven oozing…

They come for the free food, but they stay because it’s fun and to learn how to cook their favorite dishes—which for most students is whatever they are making at the moment. That’s the word from Clayton Valley Charter High culinary arts…

Angry Chickz, a restaurant known for its Nashville-style hot chicken, will enter the chicken wars in Brentwood with a grand opening set for Friday. The new restaurant, at 2500 Sand Creek Road, will open for festivities and Angry Chickz…

Amanda Gardner crawled along the floor in the darkness, with an arm outstretched along one wall, feeling her way through the hall and rooms, pulling furniture, mattresses, carpets and other obstacles out of her way as she searched for…

After delaying a decision for a week, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors has agreed to shutter the longtime Orin Allen Youth Rehabilitation Center, a low-security center for male teenage lawbreakers in unincorporated Byron, and…