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 ...

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

In his songs and videos, he is “Macho,” the North Richmond everyman who sneers at his harrowing surroundings through jaundiced eyes. But despite the overt bravado and taunts toward rivals, the real ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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