Richmond News

This week, Bargain Bites went to Tiparos Thai Kitchen in Richmond. It's a strange little place, not least of all because the sign at the restaurant says Sala Thai.

The city is considering a ban on free single-use bags similar to ordinances that have gone into effect in many other urban areas of the state, along with a ban on polystyrene containers for takeout food.

I've been a theater critic for about 20 years. I've reviewed a few thousand plays and have yet to run out of words .

A 19-year-old Richmond man is facing felony DUI charges in a head-on collision in March that left one of his friends with such severe brain injuries she remains in the hospital, police said.

Two alleged gang members were arrested Wednesday afternoon after two plainclothes Richmond detectives witnessed one of them firing a gun, a police spokeswoman said.

That was one of the points that Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, made during a May 10 meeting of the League of Women Voters of Piedmont.

The El Cerrito Garden Club has taken on a lot of beautification projects over its history, and one of its most significant is also one of the smallest.

Investigators were searching the area of Kelsey Street and Alamo Avenue in North Richmond for possible victims and evidence around 4:30 p.m. said Richmond police Det.

Be forewarned, however: Those coming forward to claim more than $100 in cash found by Police Chief Chris Magnus as he was leaving a restaurant Monday night better come with an explanation.

A divided City Council on Tuesday voted to enter talks with Chevron Corp. for a compensation package stemming from an Aug.

Eric Welch has been shot four times, the first time when he was 14. The story is recounted in a profile of him on this website.

A 5-year-old girl died Monday morning after she was ejected from a sport utility vehicle that overturned on the Richmond Parkway, police said.

KPIX reports that 30-year-old Christopher Beardon, of Pittsburg, Calif., and 28-year-old Terrance Marks, of Richmond, Calif., were shot while driving on Highway 880 near the Jackson Street exit.

Two men who attempted to assault and rob an undercover federal agent during an illegal weapons sale were each sentenced Thursday to more than 9 years in prison.

The city declined this week to support a study of a BART extension north, after a majority of City Council members raised concern that it could sap energy and funding from Hercules' long-planned Intermodal Transit Center on the waterfront.

Richard Roberts, a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, gets Mykala Thomas, 8, of Richmond, ready for a plane ride during the Young Eagles Kids Fly Free event held at Buchanan Field in Concord, Calif., on Saturday, April 20, 2013.

A man shot inside his car on the Richmond Parkway last week has died from his injuries, police said Wednesday.

This forum will discuss who is doing the privatization and outsourcing and what labor and working people should do about it.

Gov. Jerry Brown will propose giving California school districts an additional $1 billion to implement new, more rigorous academic standards and boost funding for his K-12 funding overhaul by an additional $240 million in the revised budget he will propose Tuesday, administration officials told The Associated Press.

Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, urged city governments today to avoid issuing prepaid cards that come with high fees and weak consumer protections.