Richmond News

With financing for housing in trouble, Richmond city officials are hunting for a private developer with the financial wherewithal to help build more than 200 new housing units at a pre-World War II Japanese ...

Brittney Johnson, 17, and classmate Bo-Christopher Redfearn, chat after their graduation from El Cerrito High School at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, Calif.

Altering the gene that produces CCR5 protein on the surface of immune cells using a harmless virus was found to significantly increase resistance to HIV in mice, according to a study published Sunday in the ...

Professional voice-over instructor and talent Heather Costa will be teaching an introductory course for aspiring voice-over artists on Tuesday July 22, 2008 at West Contra Costa Adult School Alvarado campus, ...

Richmond city officials and a private developer want to secure the remaining land at Point Molate before cleanup of the former Navy depot is final, saying they can rid it of pollutants and prepare it for ...

A stray bullet that ventilated a construction worker's hard hat Thursday led Richmond police to a cache of drugs across the street from the work site.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T cells to one day treat AIDS in humans.

Dr. Lori Dengler, professor and chair of Humboldt State University's Department of Geology has been named 2008 Scholar of the Year.

A pipeline burst sprayed about a barrel's worth of oil onto Marina Vista Avenue today, closing a segment of the street toward downtown Martinez but causing no significant public safety hazard, authorities said.

San Francisco police tell KRON 4 that they have made an arrest in the road rage shooting that left a father and two sons dead.

An old warship destined to be sunk left Richmond on Thursday afternoon, shepherded by tugboats as it headed out to sea.

Drug and alcohol users can have healthy pregnancies if they are treated early in the pregnancy, according to a study released today.

A three-car crash that blocked three lanes on westbound Interstate 80 has been cleared, but drivers are still moving slowly past the scene, the California Highway Patrol said.

A 37-year-old Pinole man died late Thursday night when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed on Richmond Parkway, the California Highway Patrol said.

Dow AgroSciences to exercise option early for license with Sangamo BioSciences Jun.

An auction sign is in the window of a foreclosed home at 168 5th Street in Richmond, Calif., on Tuesday, April 29, 2008.

Melvin Parker Jr. pleaded guilty on Feb. 20 to one count of sex trafficking of a minor, admitting he paid for the 16-year-old girl's travel to Oakland, where he set her up briefly as a prostitute in July 2007.

For the second time in less than three years, an arson fire has wreaked havoc at Richmond's Coronado Elementary School, this time rendering the campus's multipurpose room useless.

Richmond police arrested a man late Sunday night for suspicion of raping a woman on the Richmond High School campus while she was walking home from a grocery store, a lieutenant said.

Carey Rowan, supervising librarian for the Solano County Law Library at the Hall of Justice in Fairfield, will be leaving soon for a similar job with Contra Costa County.