Contra Costa & Solano Food Bank expects lines to grow, after Congress approved a $186 billion cut to the Supplemental Food ...

Richmond has an image problem. And its residents are well aware of it. They see it in outsiders’ faces, hear it in their derogatory comments and sense it when they tell others where they are from. The ...

The West Contra Costa Unified School District is losing students, and state funding, to charter schools at an alarming rate.

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 its current political ...

The 80-acre Point Molate tract in Richmond will become a park, under a letter of intent between the city, state and tribe owning the land.

It's Election Day and Richmond voters will go to the polls to choose a new mayor and three new City Council members.

Rich City Rides bike shop wasn't burglarized, police say, pointing to possible dispute between business partners ...

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 ...

Richmond voters elected council member Eduardo Martinez as its new mayor on Tuesday; he will replace Mayor Tom Butt in January.

The North Richmond of today emerges from a history marked by bad reputation, bad luck and, often, bad intentions.

Environmental groups in Richmond take the lead in bringing more tree coverage to the Iron Triangle and other neighborhoods.

Richmond will begin developing its Sea Level Rise Adaptation and Resiliency Plan to address the risks of rising sea levels.