"I feel that it’s time for the citizens of Antioch to put this thing to bed and decide on our own urban limit line," said Councilman Jim Conley.

A housing developer’s plan to provide Livermore up to $36 million for the long-awaited Isabel Avenue interchange with Interstate 580 and ensure enough land for a future Isabel BART station has been approved by the City Council.

THIS is one more chapter in a continuing story: the quest for intelligent software.

PUTTING THE SQUEEZE on developers eager to build in a hot real estate market has become a favorite political pastime.

Welcome to The Bay Area Housing Report with Joseph Perkins, a weekly radio show on KNBR 1050 AM in San Francisco. The one-hour show airs live on Sundays, from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m

The council is set to decide whether to place on the November ballot an initiative that would expand the city into about 1,000 rural acres south of town and west of Brentwood.

CONCORD’S NORTH SIDE has finally been noticed, and many residents are just barely stopping themselves from publicly doing the happy dance. They have reason to be happy because they are getting some important new retail space.

That may not be too far off, as the city seriously considers adding the Monument Corridor, Willow Pass Corridor and North Concord along Highway 4 to its redevelopment zones.

An initiative that endorses the building of up to 700 houses south of the city border will get its first public airing Tuesday.

If Contra Costa Supervisor Mary Piepho has her say, a municipal advisory council could be Alamo’s official advisory body to the Board of Supervisors.

The changes approved Tuesday set individual contributions to candidates at $1,675 and from "broad-based political committees" at $5,000. Candidates can accept a maximum of $40,000 from all committees during one election cycle.

. . and rethink what you do with it. Does multitasking really get anything done?