The West Contra Costa Unified School District has reached a tentative agreement with its teachers’ union to end a strike that started last week, district officials announced Wednesday.

District spokesperson Raechelle Forrest said that during overnight negotiations, the union United Teachers of Richmond agreed on the district board’s latest counterproposal that included salary and health care increases and addressed several other contractual items.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.