In art activist David Solnit's Richmond studio, a Japanese American group taps into art's power to protest injustice.

At the meeting, Phia Halleen, coordinator for the health nonprofit Contra Costa MEDS Coalition, presented data from the ...

The new law exempts any city and county with less than 16 major transit stops — a carve-out affecting Contra Costa County.

The union representing teachers in the West Contra Costa Unified School District voted Tuesday to authorize its leaders to ...

Asked about Ohlone representation, several attendees noted the absence of local tribes at events in the Richmond area.

Between the San Pablo Bay and a steep ridge lined with eucalyptus trees sits a lone burgundy fortress. Sharp-eyed commuters on the San Rafael Bridge may wonder what this structure is, with its turrets ...

Richmond City Council unanimously approved $1 million in March to nonprofits that provide immigrants with legal aid and other ...

Editor’s note: This is Part One in a two-part series on the departure of Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus, who leaves after this month to become police chief in Tucson, Arizona. In Part Two tomorrow ...

After months of watching her 4-year-old daughter struggle with reading, Tomasa Espinoza knew she had to make a change. Her older daughter, who attended a charter school, was thriving. So Espinoza ...

Civic leaders who seriously grapple with the question of how North Richmond can break its ruinous cycle of crime, poverty and decline often come to the conclusion that the current political ...

“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. Q: How do you de-stress in ...

Dozens of volunteers worked with the community organization Urban Tilth to clean up Wildcat Creek in North Richmond Ballpark on Saturday morning, extracting chunks of tires, stretches of inner tube, ...