At a press conference Monday, Richmond Police Chief Bisa French said 27-year-old Angel Magallan Montaño was fatally shot by officers last week after he advanced rapidly toward them while holding knives in both hands.
French read from a prepared statement describing the officer-involved shooting on August 4 that killed Montaño
The East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, approved the release of a Notice of Preparation for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on a proposed new bike trail in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park.
The vote advances a project that has sparked intense public interest
A locomotive built more than 40 years ago has been rebuilt and returned to service in Richmond, this time with a cleaner-burning engine funded in part by a regional air quality grant.
Richmond Pacific Railroad said the 1982-built locomotive, originally constructed for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and later operated by
A locomotive built more than 40 years ago has been rebuilt and returned to service in Richmond, this time with a cleaner-burning engine funded in part by a regional air quality grant.
Richmond Pacific Railroad said the 1982-built locomotive, originally constructed for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and later operated by
At a press conference Monday, Richmond Police Chief Bisa French said 27-year-old Angel Magallan Montaño was fatally shot by officers last week after he advanced rapidly toward them while holding knives in both hands.
French read from a prepared statement describing the officer-involved shooting on August 4 that killed Montaño
The East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, approved the release of a Notice of Preparation for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on a proposed new bike trail in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park.
The vote advances a project that has sparked intense public interest
Residents can search a comprehensive, publicly accessible database of internal police records documenting use of force and misconduct, including cases involving the Richmond Police Department.
The Police Records Access Project, launched today, makes available nearly 1.5 million pages of documents from almost 500 law enforcement agencies across the state.
An early morning fire at Richmond's Mira Flores building has destroyed the roof and caused heavy interior damage to the more than 100-year-old structure, which is the former site of the historic Sakai and Oishi nurseries, founded by Japanese immigrants in the early 1900s.
The fire started around
Officials and community members gathered Friday at Point Molate Beach Park to celebrate the start of construction on a 2.5-mile extension of the San Francisco Bay Trail.
The new segment will connect the park to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and include a 600-foot boardwalk, interpretive panels on cultural and
The National Weather Service has cancelled a tsunami advisory for the California coastal region that includes the San Francisco Bay Area.
The advisory went into effect yesterday after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked a coastal region of Russia, setting off tsunami warnings across the Pacific and an advisory along
Brief flaring from Chevron's Richmond refinery this afternoon triggered an unintentional level-two community alert, which was sent out to area residents.
Officials at the refinery say the notification was issued accidentally and was intended to be a level-one alert, indicating no community response was necessary as crews worked
