Claudia Jiménez took an early lead over Ahmad Anderson in Richmond’s mayoral runoff Tuesday night, with 52.2 percent of the vote in the first results released by the Contra Costa County Elections Division shortly after 8 p.m.
Jiménez had 8,606 votes to Anderson’s 7,878,
Richmond police logged 10 vehicle thefts from October 26 through November 1, down from 17 the previous week. The week's more serious cases included an attempted murder arrest, an armed robbery, a firearm assault and five arrests involving domestic violence charges.
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A Richmond police drone helped officers track down a man accused of cutting underground fiber-optic cable, damage that Xfinity estimates will cost up to $300,000 to repair.
Officers were dispatched to Florida Avenue and South 23rd Street at 3:40 p.m. Saturday after a report of an
Chevron says hydrogen sulfide-containing hydrocarbon gas leaked into part of its Richmond refinery’s flare system, causing the rotten-egg odor that spread across Richmond last week.
The section of the flare system had been shut down and isolated for scheduled maintenance, according to a 72-hour report Chevron
The Richmond City Council meets Tuesday, October 27, to hear the Bay Area Air District's health risk assessment of the Chevron refinery, consider competing traffic safety proposals after two pedestrian deaths on 23rd Street, and hear a presentation about the city's Office of Neighborhood Safety.
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A smell drifted across Richmond and San Pablo Thursday night, with residents describing it as anything from rotten eggs and sulfur to sewage. Today, the Bay Area Air District traced the hydrogen sulfide odor to an area of the Chevron refinery just downwind of its flares.
The district’s incident
After city staff warned in September that Richmond's day-to-day operations ran $9.8 million in the red last year, City Council members asked for a second opinion.
The report they got Tuesday left that year out.
The presentation covered three years of audited results and told
