Richmond News

El Cerrito leaders have indicated they won't pursue a ban on the slaughter of residential livestock in the city, an issue that has attracted strong feelings from those on both sides of the issue.

If you want to know what's being planned to reduce the heavy traffic jams on Interstate 80 in Contra Costa and Alameda counties, local agencies will tell you at an "open house" meeting Monday night in Richmond.

The new Albany Aquatic Center, at 1311 Portland Ave., will be dedicated with a grand opening celebration at 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Prosecutors say Crystal Marie Birden killed Tiye Rebecca Freeman, 24, of Oakland on Tuesday in a park on the 300 block of Sixth Street in Richmond.

In what is being described as the beginning of a long fight, members of the Mission Geriatric Clinic and SEIU labor union held a demonstration on Thursday to oppose the Health Department's decision to close down the Southeast Mission Geriatric Clinic in Bernal Heights.

The city has two taxes it could attempt to raise in a nearing election-the utility users tax and a transaction and use tax, which functions like a sales tax hike.

A "Big Sister" poses with her "Little." The pair are a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area.

Friends and family packed the chapel and hallway of Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito Wednesday afternoon to mourn Jeremy Crowder, an El Cerrito High School senior whose life was cut short when he was hit and killed by a train.

I recently read in the New York Times that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory decided to build a second campus in Richmond.

Caltrans will explain its $93 million plan to relieve traffic congestion on Interstate 80 from Oakland to Crockett during an open house from 6 to 9 a.m. Monday at the Richmond Memorial Auditorium and Convention Center, 403 Civic Center Plaza.

Berkeley police search for a burglar at Acton and Russell streets on Friday Feb.

With no clues or suspects identified in the savage assault on an elderly El Cerrito woman 10 days ago, police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen the victim or seen anyone else in the vicinity on the morning of the attack.

It is impossible for any of us to ignore the violent clashes between protesters and police occurring in Oakland.

Following anA early-morning crash into an Albany nail salon Sunday that led area authorities on a manhunt for three people who fled the accident scene, the police investigation into the incident is continuing.A Shortly after the crash, police arrested two people in connection with the Virginia Avenue shooting in Richmond, which was reported just ... (more)

Two veteran Contra Costa County Superior Court judges are retiring from the bench, each leaving a legacy beyond decades of experience.

Shawn Pickett said one person is in critical condition after the incident, and a second person in Richmond reported being shot at.A Authorities got a report at 12:24 a.m., he said, that 15 shots had been fired in the area of 2000 Virginia Avenue in Richmond.A A Richmond Police officer happened to be around the corner, said Pickett.

Contra Costa County's finances resemble those of a family that ran up astronomical credit card debts by spending beyond its means.

Police are investigating the city's third homicide of the year after a man was fatally shot around noon Saturday, authorities said.

Hercules has a new finance director in Nickie Mastay, who has been Richmond's community and economic development finance manager for six years.

For a few weeks there, when we heard "Iowa" we thought only one thing. But here's to thinking about Iowa in a different way: GoA visitA the U.S.S. Iowa , now stationed in Richmond for only a short while.