Lawyers for the Central Park ballot initiative proponents are asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit filed against them by Livermore’s elections official.
Sandia National Laboratories named James Peery of Oak Ridge National Laboratory as director starting Jan. 1. He will replace Stephen Younger, who is retiring.
Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center announced that Chris Carter has been selected to serve as Executive Director, taking the reins in February.
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On Saturday, Harry Moyer is expected to climb into the cockpit of a restored Curtiss P-40N Warhawk and take to the skies over Livermore.
One recent afternoon, two businesses that bookended a strip mall at the Southwest corner of Rincon Avenue and Pine Street brought steady buzz of customers in and out. In between them sat a sea of asphalt, stucco and eerie quiet.
The highest paid city employee in Livermore will see his annual cash compensation increase by more than $16,000 and the second highest paid employee will bring home nearly $15,000 more in pay during the next 12 months.
The world’s largest online retailer has big plans for a massive warehouse in Livermore — but has little to report right now.
Scott Kenison, Executive Director of Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center (LVPAC), gave his final annual report to the Livermore City Council at the Nov. 25 meeting. Kenison will be leaving the organization in February. Kenison arrived in late 2014 as the organization was coming out of a …
Ben Santer, senior climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, spoke earlier this month in Madison, Wisc. to the annual meeting of Sigma Xi, the national scientific society. Santer gave the talk after winning the society’s annual William Proctor Award, joining such past scie…
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If there were a theme for the Bankhead Theater’s Nov. 12 reception marking its new array of solar panels, it might have been “Curtain Up! Light the Lights! We’ve Got Nothing to Hit But the Heights!”
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On a gorgeous autumn afternoon, the City of Livermore added its own touch of whimsical beauty: a 15-foot sculpture titled “Flying Kites.”
In September and October, the Assistance League of Amador Valley has provided clothing for children in need throughout the Tri-Valley area. Over the last 19 years, 5,500 children have been clothed through the League’s Operation School Bell.
Livermore City Clerk Sarah Bunting is being asked to turn over emails and other documents that might help shed light on what led her office to sue the backers of a November 2020 ballot initiative.
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Things are looking up at the Livermore Airport.
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Dyrell Foster, a veteran Southern California community college administrator, said this week that he is “looking forward to really hitting the ground running,” when he takes over in February as president of Las Positas College in Livermore.
Rebuttal arguments have been filed with the city clerk’s office by the City Council and a citizens’ group on a referendum of the Development Agreement between the City of Livermore and a hotel developer to build in the city’s downtown core.
It all boils down to use of the word fact.
A proposed inn to serve visitors to Livermore’s wine country cleared a significant hurdle.
Livermore will soon get two additional baseball fields at Robert Livermore Park. The unanimous vote by the LARPD Board of Directors on Oct. 30 will bring the park’s number of Little League fields to four.
In 1869, William Mendenhall paid homage to his late friend Robert Livermore by naming a city after him. Now, 150 years later, that city has in turn honored Mendenhall by dedicating the Emergency Operations Center’s Community Room to the town founder. Dozens of residents, including Mendenhall…
Arguments for and against a referendum of the Development Agreement between the City of Livermore and a hotel developer to build in the city’s downtown core have been filed with the city clerk’s office.
Livermore is exploring whether to regulate short term housing rentals offered up on sites like HomeAway, VRBO and Airbnb.
After providing expert guidance and personalized travel service to the Livermore community for 40 years, Travel Bug Owner Debbie Peck has decided to retire.
The Livermore Police Department received a $60,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) for a one-year enforcement and education program. The money will fund various activities intended to reduce deaths and injuries on California roads.
The Livermore City Council on Monday directed a $4.7 million infusion of low income housing funds to help support the development of a large housing community for adults with special needs.
Firefighters worked through the weekend to keep a vegetation fire on Mines Road southeast of Livermore from spreading to nearby homes and woodlands.
Altamont Creek Elementary School Science Specialist Fenna Gatty donned her white lab coat and opened her classroom door for her third grade budding scientists and engineers. They filed into the room and sat on the carpet in “presentation mode” with their legs crossed and hands in laps. As th…
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Juul Labs Inc. dropped its support for a referendum aimed at overturning Livermore’s ban on the sale of vaping products.
On Oct. 29, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 3 to 2 to add "mutton busting" to the list of prohibited events in the county rodeo ordinance. Mutton busting is a rodeo event where young children ride on the backs of sheep – a ride that may last only seconds as the sheep try to tos…
Getting the news that you have breast cancer can be devastating, particularly if you are underinsured or have high medical deductibles and co-pays. ValleyCare Charitable Foundation’s Women in Need fund continues to bridge financial gaps for local patients coping with breast cancer. This mont…
The number of non-traditional students continues to increase as working adults look to gain valuable educational experience and those who skipped college after high school seek to increase their ability to earn. Recent high school graduates also often need to put their education on the backb…
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Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center (LVPAC) has announced that Executive Director Scott Kenison will be leaving the organization in March 2020, according to a press release.
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Livermore’s first Pride event brought almost 1,000 people of all ages to the four- hour celebration at the Shea Plaza in front of the Bankhead Theater.
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Livermore police on Tuesday responded to a report of threatening graffiti painted on a wall at Mendenhall Middle School.
Four years ago, a nonprofit group joined forces with an affordable housing developer to build a community in Livermore for low-income adults with special needs.
The Livermore City Council is set to vote next week on whether to buy the last remaining patches of downtown real estate needed to build a new public parking garage proposed for South L Street.
Voters will decide early next year whether to approve or reject an agreement between the city and a private developer to build a hotel next to the Bankhead Theater on the east side of Livermore Avenue.
Neither Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nor the Livermore campus of Sandia National Laboratories suffered power outages last week, the two labs reported.
On July 22, the Livermore K9 Foundation donated to the Livermore Police Department a check for $10,248 for the purchase of their newest K9: Drax, a 1-year-old Belgian Malinois who is partnered with Officer Rob Leiva. Drax and Officer Leiva recently completed K9 training and are now working o…
The Livermore High School Premier Quartet greeted guests with classical music as they entered the gymnasium at Granada High School for the annual Reclassification Ceremony held on October 8.
For several years the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Livermore facility of Sandia National Laboratories have been sharing the costs of providing shuttle services for its employees.
On Oct. 12, Attorney Tony Bothwell told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that "the government must be required to protect whistleblowers [who] have the courage to disclose practices that harm workers, the public, and the nation." Defending a nuclear weapons lab…
The University of California is making plans to renovate the Hertz Hall complex on the east side of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for future campus-Laboratory collaborations.
Livermore joins the increasing number of cities around the world with its own Pride event this weekend.
The City of Livermore is still tallying the cost of rebuilding its communications infrastructure following a disruptive ransomware attack that shut down phones, email and computers at city hall last month.
Andrew McIlroy, the new leader of the Livermore campus of Sandia National Laboratories, is taking on his management role at a time of considerable challenge.
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At 9:45 a.m. on Oct. 2, the aircraft lifted off the runway at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.
A referendum effort from a citizens’ group seeking to overturn a Livermore City Council agreement with a hotel developer gathered well over the number of signatures required to put the question before voters on a future ballot.
More than just a hashtag, the Third Annual Livermore Valley Chamber of Commerce business awards was a celebration of what member businesses brought to Livermore. Chamber CEO-President Dawn Argula welcomed over 200 attendees to the Sept. 26 luncheon.
Will Juul Labs Inc., the giant San Francisco e-cigarette company, drop its support for a referendum aimed at overturning Livermore’s ban on the sale of vaping products?
