The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Solano County Water Agency, along with Westside Sacramento Integrated Water Management Group, a $467,378 federal grant to assess contamination of abandoned mines in four counties, U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson and John Garamendi said.

Benicia City Council will decide Tuesday whether to accept a recommendation to use Valero-Good Neighbor Steering Committee Settlement Agreement money to fund most of the cost to keep Alex Porteshawver as the city’s Climate Action Plan coordinator. Since she became the city’s primary contact with Sonoma State University, with which the city had contracted in […]

Benicia Finance Committee will receive quarterly reports on the city’s income from the 1-cent local sales tax hike approved by voters last year as Measure C. The panel also will receive reports on how the money is being spent on projects approved by the City Council, Finance Director Karin Schnaider said Thursday morning.

Benicia police arrested two men and one woman they’re accusing in connection with an attempt to steal a kayak Tuesday evening, Lt. Frank Hartig said. And there may be a connection to Monday’s thwarted burglary on the 1200 block of West K Street, he added.

The public can weigh in tonight on the U.S. Navy’s proposed plan to remediate Installation Restoration Site 17 and Building 503 Area of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard. A public meeting tonight on Mare Island will give residents and other interested individuals the chance to comment on the Navy’s proposal. After that, their observations […]

Benicia Finance Committee will examine its role today as overseers of the city’s local one-cent sales tax that was approved by voters in 2014 and took effect April 1. In her report to the Committee, Finance Director Karin Schnaider said the city won’t see the first quarter of sales tax until July; May’s receipts will […]

Blazes occur within hours Saturday at O, I streets Several buildings, including a day care center and two garages, were damaged by unrelated fires that started within hours of each other Saturday, Benicia Fire Department Division Chief Josh Chadwick said. The first fire was reported about 5:51 p.m. at a day care center at 470 […]

■ Suspects reportedly escape, sans goods, after neighbors block car Alert neighbors — including one who blocked a getaway car’s exit — apparently foiled an attempted burglary early Monday at an unoccupied home in the 1200 block of West K St., Benicia police Lt. Frank Hartig said.

Benicia Historic Preservation Review Commission will consider approving a use permit Thursday that would officially OK Carter Rankin’s business café’s operation in the Commanding Officer’s Quarters. That building, now owned by the city, was built as the home of the commander of the former Army weapons base that predated the Civil War. It is a […]