Chevron has agreed to a settlement with the Bay Area Air District to be more transparent in reporting pollution around its ...

West Contra Costa Unified school board welcomed Cheryl Cotton, former principal and administrator, back to the district as ...

Thanks to an electronic waste recycling service, electronic gadgets that have reached the end of their lives will no longer end up in a landfill. Richmond residents came to drop off their end-of-life ...

Festive Persian music filled the air at Marina Bay Park Saturday as dancers in colorful dress performed on the stage and those in the audience danced on the lawn. All around them, the aroma of grilled ...

The North Richmond of today emerges from a history marked by bad reputation, bad luck and, often, bad intentions. This community began as a rural, sparsely populated agricultural outpost and rapidly ...

Dipping his brush into light blue paint, Peter Bakke filled numbered panels with the color. The sea was taking shape Saturday on the long wall in front of him, where dozens of other volunteers were ...

Parents protested and teachers rallied against West Contra Costa Unified School District on Wednesday, expressing frustrations with how the teacher shortage is being handled and communicated to the ...

“People of Richmond” is a regular series in which reporters pose a question to people in the community. Answers are presented verbatim, though sometimes edited for brevity. “With a refinery closing ...

When Adamaris Cabrera was in high school, she was in “boss mode,” taking classes at Contra Costa College and working multiple jobs to become a first-generation college graduate. She wanted to make her ...

When Richmond residents retire, they might travel the world or settle somewhere else. When San Francisco Bay ferries retire from the fleet, they also go to new places. The motor vessel (MV) Solano is ...