Livermore News

Sunflower Hill, a Pleasanton-based nonprofit that provides vocational and life skills programs for adults with developmental disabilities, is offering daily online activities for its program participants and members of the community during the statewide stay-at-home order because of Covid-19.

The winners of Livermore’s Fourth Annual Science Poetry Contest were announced this week by the city’s poet laureate, Cynthia Patton. A celebration of Livermore’s scientific heritage, the contest had four divisions: youth (K-5th grade), middle school, high school, and adult. Winning poems in…

Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are contributing to the global fight against COVID-19 by combining artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and supercomputing in an effort to discover new antibodies and pharmaceutical drugs to combat the disease.

Two people have died in Alameda County from the coronavirus, according to the county Public Health Department.

By the time the shelter in place orders for everyone came down, John Bost could already see the writing on the wall.

Ben Santer, the well known climate scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is self-quarantined after showing symptoms consistent with COVID-19.

The Livermore City Council on Monday created a narrow exemption to the city’s tough new tobacco control ordinance, lifting a ban on the retail sales of certain types of flavored tobacco that are considered premium tobacco products.

By a 2-to-1 ratio, voters approved a ballot initiative to uphold a deal between the city and a private developer to construct and operate a hotel in downtown Livermore.

Volunteers are being sought to help build a new trail along the southern boundary of Sycamore Grove Park in Livermore.

Livermore celebrated the grand opening last month of Chestnut Square Senior Housing, the first phase in the city’s vision of transforming an underutilized site along Chestnut Street into an inter-generational community with easy access to public transportation and community amenities, both o…

In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Wendy Rouse, associate professor of history at San Jose State University, will give a presentation on the women’s suffrage movement at the Livermore Civic Center Library on Sunday, March 8.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and its industrial partners have upgraded the performance anticipated from the El Capitan computer, which was already being touted as the world’s fastest when it becomes operational at the Laboratory in 2023.

Livermore voters Tuesday, in early results, were overwhelmingly in favor of a measure to uphold 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.

Alameda County is asking the court to toss out the City of Livermore’s lawsuit against proponents of a Nov. 3 ballot initiative, which also names the Board of Supervisors as defendants.

A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory team has developed a program that it believes can guide California to carbon neutrality by 2045.

Nearly two years after construction was originally expected to begin, ground has not yet broken on a planned housing community in Livermore for low income adults with special needs.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineers and biologists have developed a “brain-on-a-chip” device capable of recording the neural activity of living brain cell cultures in three-dimensions, a significant advancement in the realistic modeling of the human brain outside of the body.

Livermore City Councilman Bob Coomber, who is in need of a kidney transplant, announced this week that he will not seek re-election in November in order to concentrate on his health.

The city’s campaign to promote its vision for downtown Livermore took an unusual step Monday when two members of the City Council floated the idea of putting a parcel tax measure on the November ballot in case voters do not support the city’s plan.

The threat of Livermore being forced to cram high density apartments into its downtown plan is gone. For now, at least.

Livermore Mayor John Marchand addressed the city’s efforts to attract jobs, add housing and deal with homelessness during this year’s State of the City speech, held Jan 29 at the Civic Center Library.

Chabot and Las Positas colleges have received $500,000 in grants to help address the mental health needs of students across the community college district.

Paul Preston, president of New California, will be the guest speaker at the Tri-Valley Republicans’ monthly dinner meeting on Thursday, Feb. 13, at Beeb’s Sports Bar and Grill, at the Las Positas Golf Course.

The Livermore City Council on Monday campaigned strongly for their vision of downtown redevelopment, arguing that anything else will unravel a carefully-laid plan which includes signed development deals, development process steps, and ensuring there is adequate parking during construction.

A discussion of how California can meet a dangerous and fast-developing climate crisis will be presented next week at Livermore’s Bankhead Theater by the head of an organization that is working to make the state carbon-neutral a decade from now.

An official notice has been mailed to thousands of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory retirees affected by the recent University of California health care settlement agreement, including a detailed questionnaire that must be answered to ensure future benefits.

A City Councilman is warning against what he says is a potential avalanche of litigation that threatens to bury long-planned efforts to revitalize 8 acres of city-owned land in the heart of downtown Livermore.