Richmond News

San Pablo officials, reversing the conventional model of building more lanes to accommodate more traffic, want to put one of the city's main commercial strips on a "road diet." Public Works Director Adele Ho proposes to improve traffic flow and safety on 23rd Street south of Market Avenue to the Richmond city line by converting it from two lanes in ...

The Chevron refinery in Richmond released 100 workers Thursday following a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge's ruling Wednesday ordering the refinery to stop construction of its Energy and Hydrogen Renewal Project, Chevron spokesman Brent Tippen said.

Family photograph of Euvaldo Sisneros, age 79, taken on Thursday, July 2, 2009 in Pleasant Hill, Calif.

Bank of America said Wednesday that it will accept IOUs from the State of California from its customers through July 10.

Legendary San Francisco Bay area hot dog chain Caspers Famous Hot Dogs celebrates 75 years with "The 75 Cent Event," taking place July 28, during National Hot Dog Month.

A 19-year-old robbery suspect went to jail Tuesday after a traffic stop and brief foot chase in Richmond.

Demolishing 38 greenhouses and other structures from a trio of prewar Japanese nurseries to make way for 336 units of affordable and market-rate housing would hurt local historic resources, a city report found.

Euvaldo Sisneros was attacked from behind on the 2800 block of Humphrey Avenue about 3:40 p.m. June 16.

Queen: Loyal subjects, the Queen is dazzled and amazed. Her Majesty included a paraphrase identified only as coming from a "court jester" in her June 24 column, without specifying whether it was uttered by a politician, or in a movie or a book.

Gus Petsas, CPA, financial adviser and board chairman of the Bay Area Rescue Mission talks about the work done at the mission in Richmond, Calif., on Thursday, June 11, 2009.

When the annual funding is exhausted the City will not accept anymore grant applications.

About 6,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers in Richmond and El Cerrito lost power for about four hours Saturday night because a wire was knocked down, a spokesman said.

Two teenagers accused of chasing down and shooting a 16-year-old boy in San Pablo on June 11 have been charged with attempted murder, the Contra Costa County District Attorney's office confirmed Monday.

Richmond's last few city departments will move back downtown to Civic Center on Monday.

THE EXPLORERS POST from the Richmond Police Department took the overall first-place award at the 2009 Law Enforcement Explorer Conference held June 13 in Las Vegas.

Richmond plans to fire a police captain who claimed workers' compensation after he tore a tendon while watching television at home last year.

Sunday June 28, 2009, from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., BART crews will be removing brush on tracks between El Cerrito Plaza and Richmond stations.

A Contra Costa County murder convict who for 11 years fought for a federal court's review of his case deserves his day in court, an appeals court panel decided in a strongly worded ruling Thursday.

Mike Jeanpierre signs a piece of cardboard at a memorial for James "Pops" Gilbeaux on Mariposa Street in Rodeo, Calif.

Police seek two in robbery string: Richmond police released photos of two brothers wanted on suspicion of a home-invasion robbery series last month.