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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WCCUSD special education students dealing with unreliable service because of a school bus driver shortage affecting many districts.

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.

More than four years after being at the center of a police sex misconduct scandal, Jasmine Abuslin, also known as Celeste Guap, is still seeking justice.