Richmond News

The public can attend a workshop to learn more about the city's plans to make part of Nevin Avenue safer.

African Immigrants Social and Cultural Services is holding an event Saturday to raise money to bring educational services to rural Tanzania.

The woman who called 911 to report the brutal gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Richmond, California, was honored by city officials on Tuesday night, November 17.

Members of a task force investigating more than 20 recent vehicle fires in Contra Costa County aren't yet ready to say the two fires discovered Tuesday night into Friday morning are related to the other vehicles that have caught fire in the area.

The woman who called 911 to report the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at Richmond High School was honored Tuesday night for her "act of humanity." The Richmond City Council commended Margarita Vargas, 18, for calling authorities when she learned of the Oct.

Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard out of sight of chaperones.

A car was found on fire near the corner of Market Avenue and Rumrill Boulevard at about 9:30 p.m. Monday.

In a two-part hearing in Martinez, Teresa Moses, 26, was first convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of Raijon Daniels, whom she allegedly kept locked in his room and beat repeatedly.

DISTURBING. Inexcusable. Barbaric. Words that describe the recent vicious crime in which a 15-year-old sophomore from Richmond High School was violently gang raped at her homecoming dance.

IN RECENT weeks our city has drawn national attention over the disturbing rape perpetuated during the homecoming celebration at Richmond High School.

Multiple law enforcement agencies including the CHP, Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department as well as the Richmond and San Pablo police departments respond to the scene of an officer involved shooting near Wilart and Rollingwood Drives in Richmond, Calif., on Saturday, Nov.

Two women who have devoted their careers to educating people in the poorest communities in Haiti will be the special guest speakers at a public forum from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday at the offices of LEAP , 440 Civic Center Plaza.

The West Contra Costa Unified School District board will host a meeting Saturday with officials from Richmond and neighboring cities as part of its ongoing response to a violent gang rape last month at Richmond High School.

A shooting in Richmond has left one man dead and another injured. It happened in the 1,000 block of Roosevelt Avenue shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Firefighters have contained a two-alarm fire at a lumber yard this evening. The fire was reported at 7:20 p.m. at The Lumber Baron, in the 500 block of Clevelend Avenue; just off Interstate 80 and near Point Isabel.

The threat of a strike is looming over the West Contra Costa County school district, after teachers narrowly rejected a contract proposal.

Approximately 200 people were in Richmond this past weekend to draw attention to the case of the 16 year old high school student who was raped here recently but to also bring the larger issue of gender violence to the public.

The Coach Carter Foundation and the Richmond Police Activities League are hosting a benefit basketball game on Thursday night to raise money for safety programs at Richmond High School.

In an apparent change of heart that could be tied to potential revenues, the Contra Costa County supervisors have reversed themselves and endorsed plans for an Indian gambling casino at the foot of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.

The possibility of a teacher strike in the West Contra Costa school district remained uncertain Wednesday after a reversal in the outcome of a contested teacher contract vote.