Richmond News

Police arrested an Oakland woman Wednesday who allegedly passed phony traveler's checks in Santa Cruz, Los Gatos, Sunnyvale and Mountain View, and in other Northern California communities.

A 21-year-old Antioch man was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2005 slaying of a Pittsburg police officer who was shot to death as he chased two armed robbery ...

After losing Harrah's as its financial backer last year, an American Indian tribe that hopes to build a casino resort complex at the former Point Molate Naval Base has found a new partner - the tribe that runs ...

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday called on Mayor Gavin Newsom to allow the federal agency full access to information about local inmates, saying the city should rescind its policy ...

El Cerrito police Sunday arrested a 79-year-old man for allegedly hitting and injuring a bicyclist with his vehicle and leaving the scene of the collision.

Employee Kaprisha Dearman and her mom Natalie Samm look at children's clothes during a "soft store opening" at the new Target store on MacDonald Avenue near I-80 in Richmond, Calif., on Tuesday, July 22, 2008.

RICHMOND, Calif. - A man dressed like Indiana Jones left a suspicious backpack with wires sticking out on a westbound Capital Corridor Amtrak train, halting BART and Amtrak service for about four hours.

Technology makes green innovations in the home July 22, 2008 01:02 PM CDT NEW YORK - A decade of quantum technological leaps mean today's designers have in their hands a virtually bottomless toy box of new ...

The Capitol Corridor service on Amtrak and the Richmond Bay Area Rapid Transit station were shut down Monday after a man left a suspicious package on an Amtrak train at the BART station.In addition, BART said ...

He was taken to the Berkeley City Jail, and it was expected late Monday that he would be cited and released, said university spokesman Dan Mogulof.

Pineapple-topped al pastor and roasted-pork tamales. The al pastor from Taqueria La Selva 's taco wagon setup is a thing of beauty, reckons rworange .

One victim was killed during a Richmond shooting Tuesday night and another was critically injured, according to police.

A marathon public hearing over Chevron's contentious bid to replace decades-old equipment at its refinery extended late into its second night Wednesday.

The Contra Costa County Coroner's Office has identified the man killed in a Tuesday night shooting that also critically wounded another man.

Just after 8 p.m., an officer patrolling near Fifth Street and Maine Avenue heard shots, as did several residents, who called police.

The Richmond City Council was scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday on appeals filed by Chevron and the Richmond Alliance for Environmental Justice to the planning commission's conditional approval of the ...

Standing under the metal pole supporting the wireless mesh video and radio array, Jon Sargent looked out onto the entrance of Nichols City Park and remembers what it was like decades ago when he was growing up ...

Backers of a petition to elect West Contra Costa Unified School District board members by district rather than at-large as they are now said this week they are undeterred by the county's rejection of the ...

The Masquers Playhouse has gotten ample wear from the seats at its Point Richmond storefront theater.

Police say an argument in the hot July sun ended with the stabbing death of a 29-year-old Richmond man around the corner from his home.