A new bill aimed at increasing transparency in California oil refineries has an unexpected opponent –a free speech rights group. The First Amendment Coalition raised concerns over SB 1300, a bill they ...

Analysis of shell casings suggests a link between four killings in Oakland and Richmond and many of the 22 felonies for which Joe Blacknell III is on trial, Richmond Police Det. Christopher Llamas ...

The West Contra Costa Unified School District is losing students, and state funding, to charter schools at an alarming rate.

Richmond has an image problem. And its residents are well aware of it. They see it in outsiders’ faces, hear it in their derogatory comments and sense it when they tell others where they are from. The ...

The North Richmond of today emerges from a history marked by bad reputation, bad luck and, often, bad intentions.

Richmond’s Black population has been declining. In 1980, about half the city's residents were Black, and in 2020, only 18% were.

Civic leaders who seriously grapple with the question of how North Richmond can break its ruinous cycle of crime, poverty and decline often come to the conclusion that its current political ...

The 80-acre Point Molate tract in Richmond will become a park, under a letter of intent between the city, state and tribe owning the land.

Rich City Rides bike shop wasn't burglarized, police say, pointing to possible dispute between business partners ...

Editor’s note: This is Part One in a two-part series on the departure of Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus, who leaves after this month to become police chief in Tucson, Arizona. In Part Two tomorrow ...

Chevron is working with state officials to clean up a diesel product spill that was reported off the Richmond wharf Thursday.

Environmental groups in Richmond take the lead in bringing more tree coverage to the Iron Triangle and other neighborhoods.