SAN JOSE — Dunn-Edwards, a big paint retailer, will greatly widen its footprint in Northern California by adding 17 stores in the region, an expansion poised to fill several former Kelly-Moore Paints sites. The 17 paint retailing locations include 10 new stores in the Bay Area and some stores near the region, Dunn-Edwards Paints stated. 4156 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, a former Kelly-Moore Paints location that Dunn-Edwards Paints has picked for a store site.  The expansion will increase the number of Dunn-Edwards Paints sites in Northern California by more than 50%. The Dunn-Edwards move ..read more

PITTSBURG — Heritage didn’t play its best game.  But when it mattered most, the Patriots found a way to get the job done.  After struggling to score runs for five innings, Heritage came alive late to beat Pittsburg 4-3 on Thursday and firmly secure its spot as the top team in the Bay Valley Athletic League standings.  Heritage junior Alonzo Alvarez was 3 for 4 and had two doubles. Elijah Ward totaled two hits and scored a run while KC Karbowski had a hit and an RBI.  Patriots pitcher JJ Kinnaird pitched 5 1/3 innings, striking out three while allowing two runs.  “All w ..read more

A generic threat tied to the demanded release of Russian prisoners put a scare into several Bay Area school districts Wednesday. Schools throughout Contra Costa County and Alameda County received the threats, according to authorities and school districts in the areas. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Two men fatally shot in East Oakland Crime and Public Safety | Two suspected to be involved in East Bay slaying of delivery man arrested in Sacramento Crime and Public Safety | East Bay woman gets 2-year sentence for killing woman in 2022 DUI crash Crime and Public Safety | DA files ..read more

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Oakland Airport doesn’tneed a name change I read a lot about changing the Oakland International Airport’s name in recent editions of East Bay Times. The fact of the matter is we have three international airports not too far from each other by distance representing three cities of the Bay Area. The San Jose International Airport covers the South Bay, San Francisco International Airport is the hub of all domestic and international flights while Oakland International is toward the East Bay, an ideal location serving ..read more

For over a decade, developer Forrest Linebarger has tried to build new multifamily housing on two half-acre parcels in Los Altos Hills. The city has done all it can to stop him. Related Articles Housing | This map reveals where supersized ‘builder’s remedy’ projects could be coming Housing | State green lights Cupertino’s housing plan for more than 4,500 new homes Housing | Developers of two new East Bay housing developments hear that affordability is key Housing | Affordable San Jose homes may rise at Willow Glen restaurant site Housing | Letters: A bad start | Developers’ benefit | Sup ..read more

One thing was clear at a hearing this week to gather feedback for two new proposed housing projects on opposite ends of Antioch: people want at least some of them to be affordable. Preliminary plans unveiled to the City Council on Tuesday include a Richland Communities’ proposal to build 435 homes at the city’s southernmost edge at the 160-acre Leung property just east of Deer Valley Road. Part of the Sand Creek Focus Area, the proposal is just south of Richland’s The Ranch, where 1,177 homes are planned. Across town, in Antioch’s older northern waterfront, DeNova Homes is asking for a rezone ..read more

Almost three weeks after dismantling a large homeless encampment along Wilbur Avenue, the city of Antioch evicted another encampment of camper trailers and recreational vehicles farther east along Highway 4. Monday’s sweep affected the Lindsey Detention Basin, an area between the highway and Neroly and Laurel roads. City officials later said they towed 18 vehicles with expired registrations on Monday morning. The Wilbur Avenue cleanup on March 19, meanwhile, included the towing of some 70 vehicles, according to the city. Early Monday morning, Harry Bouchard came to the Neroly and Laurel roads ..read more

OAKLAND — PG&E handed out higher executive compensation to the utility giant’s top boss and other key executives in 2023 — pay increases that came at a time of soaring monthly customer bills and rising profits. CEO Patricia Poppe received slightly less than $17 million — $16.99 million, to be precise — in total direct compensation for the company’s 2023 fiscal year that ended in December, according to a new regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The compensation boost was about 20.3% higher than her executive pay for the previous year when she received about $14.1 m ..read more

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Crying foul whenjustice is applied Re: “The fraud behind accusing Trump of fraud” (Page A6, March 28). If a valid New York law states that in the event of civil fraud, the perpetrator must pay penalties to the state, applying that law is not illegal or immoral. If you or I lied on a loan application to get a lower rate, we would have committed fraud against the bank and a moral wrong against everyone who didn’t, whether or not we repaid the loan and the bank still made money on us. The judge made the ruling in the ..read more

BRENTWOOD – East Bay authorities on Tuesday raided a suspected drug lab in Brentwood, arresting a 29-year-old man and detonating three containers filled with an explosive substance. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Two Oakland residents from Honduras sentenced for selling fentanyl, meth Crime and Public Safety | Former Alameda County sheriff’s deputy heading to trial on charges he murdered Dublin couple in 2022 Crime and Public Safety | Dash cam, alert CHP rookie help nab Interstate 880 road rage shooter Crime and Public Safety | Suspect arrested in Richmond homicide Crime and ..read more