MARTINEZ, Calif. - The Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder's office is about to start looking for official prejudice in county property records. The county announced Wednesday the launch of its ...

A suspect in a deadly Seattle shooting was released from a Northern California jail by mistake on October 22, according to the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office. Isaiah Jamon Andrews of Kent was being ...

MARTINEZ — A growing effort from residents to force the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s office to end its collaborations with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency made its presence felt on ...

Mark DeSaulnier had to see it for himself. The congressman from Concord walked through the West County Detention Facility in Richmond after female detainees told The Chronicle that they were being ...

The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department said it had been investigating 34-year-old Rustom Bhagwagar of Florida since April on reports of "sex crimes against a child." Sheriff's detectives and ...

The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office reports that a man who reportedly threw a lit Molotov cocktail-type device into the lobby of the Contra Costa County jail in Martinez and then drove his van ...