On Tuesday, the Richmond City Council received pitches from four developers to build waterfront housing on the pristine Point Molate shoreline. Orton Development, Samuelson Schafer, SunCal, and Point ...

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

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 ...

Beginning next year, Contra Costa County will pilot a county-funded guaranteed-income program, placing up to $1,000 monthly in the hands of residents — no strings attached.

When San Francisco Bay ferries retire from the fleet, they also go to new places like Puget Sound after being refurbished.

The sky over Richmond turned black with billowing smoke around 4 p.m. Monday, with flames shooting skyward from the Chevron refinery in what the company called a flaring event. Chevron said a power ...

Hundreds of people danced, ate and celebrated the Persian New Year Marina Bay Park for Richmond's first Norooz festival.

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

There’s a strange monolithic structure on Richmond’s shoreline just north up the highway from the San Rafael Bridge. With castle-like towers and fortifications, the red brick structure stands in high ...

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.

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