The Richmond Greenway runs nearly three miles from South 2nd Street to San Pablo Avenue, a paved ribbon of trail laid over an old rail corridor. Most of it is easy riding. Then you hit the middle, and the trail just gives up.
There's a fix in the
Richmond City Council will weigh a wide-ranging agenda Tuesday that includes a warning about looming AC Transit service cuts, a $1.66 million expansion of homeless outreach services, an independent fiscal review of a proposed police funding charter amendment and a $120 million fire station bond headed for the
The Richmond City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with a $120 million fire station bond measure headed for the November ballot, then fell one vote short of doing the same for a measure that would have created an independent ethics commission.
Tuesday's vote was a first reading.
An attempted homicide, two armed robberies and 11 vehicle thefts were among the incidents Richmond police logged between July 13 and 19, according to information released by the Richmond Police Department. The week's reports also included domestic violence, criminal threats, multiple DUI arrests and several suspects allegedly found
Richmond City Council faces its largest new business agenda of the summer on Tuesday, with six discussion items on the table. Two of the biggest, a $120 million fire station bond and a ballot measure creating an independent ethics commission, are both racing the same deadline to make the November
West Contra Costa Unified School District's board voted unanimously Wednesday night to put a renewal of its longstanding parcel tax on the November ballot. Its own pollster told trustees that voter support currently falls short of the two-thirds threshold needed to win.
The board approved the resolution
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Richmond police are investigating a shooting Wednesday evening in the 400 block of Wilson Avenue that left two people injured, one of whom was airlifted to a trauma center.
Lieutenant Joe England, the Richmond Police Department's public information officer,
Photos had been turning up online this week, huge looping patterns raked into the sand at Keller Beach, gone by the next tide. There was one obvious question. Who did this?
Turns out the answer gets up before the sun does.
His name is Brighton Denevan, and he'd
