What you'll see: This trip to Diablo Foothills Regional Park is unique, dramatic at sunrise and sunset, and off the radar for most. The views of Castle Rocks and towering Mount Diablo, and access to ...

On a New Year’s Day cold and clear across the Bay Area and Northern California, you could drive to the top of Mount Diablo for a world-class view from the summit viewing deck. Or you could explore the ...

Click here if you are unable to view this gallery on a mobile device. Faced with the normal pressures of high school and all that extra work for college Advanced Placement courses, 16-year-old ...

ANTIOCH – Botanists Heath Bartosh and Brian Peterson were doing a routine survey of wild plants on a hot May morning when they stumbled across a splash of pink on a hillside that stunned them. For 11 ...

WALNUT CREEK — People were tough on the peregrine falcon — stealing their eggs for cash in the 1800s and fouling their environment with the pesticide DDT until the fierce hunters of the sky nearly ...

As I write, I am continually reminded of the challenge of travel in today’s rattled national psyche related to the coronavirus pandemic. California schools are shutting down, major league sports are ...

Autumn colors and towering sandstone cliffs are the attractions along the way on a strenuous 7-mile hike from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at Diablo Foothills Regional Park in Walnut Creek, led by ...

ANTIOCH — Coal miners from a booming early Bay Area industry lay on their sides in 3-foot-tall tunnels to scrape and hack out soft black ore with pickaxes deep inside the Mount Diablo foothills.