The homicide data reveals some stark facts: Gun violence accounts for almost all deaths, less than a third of the crimes have been solved, over half of the homicides occurred over the summer and the victims are disproportionately under the age of 30.
Point Richmond clockmaker Steve Kowalski makes timepieces from old found objects. He founded Timeworks clock company, and designed the Giants clock mounted in San Francisco’s ball park.
Award-winning playwright Marcus Gardley’s newest work, “This World in a Woman’s Hands” chronicles the city’s storied past
The original plan was to widen one confusing and congested interchange off Interstate 80, San Pablo Dam Road, at a cost of $30 million in 2006. Now it’s not so simple. The current plan involves two other interchanges – El Portal to the north, which would move, and McBryde Avenue to the south, which would…
Volunteers gathered at Shimada Friendship Park in Richmond on September 19 to rid the shoreline of garbage. It was the 25th Anniversary of California Coastal Cleanup Day.
Richmond thinks gang injunctions may help control gang-related crimes, but critics say that injunctions strip residents of their rights without due process.
At first glance, it is hard to connect the large clay sculptures currently on display at the Richmond Art Center with their creator. Berkeley artist Stephen De Staebler, 76, is an unassuming silver-haired man with weathered hands. At a recent reception for the Richmond Art Center exhibit, The Sculptor’s Way, he smiled warmly while visitors introduced themselves and commented on his work. It is difficult to imagine the artist – who uses a wheelchair –piecing large clay blocks into imposing figures over six-feet tall. Yet during the past two years, with the help of an assistant, De Staebler produced all of the 27 sculptures in the exhibit.
Between the San Pablo Bay and a steep ridge lined with eucalyptus trees sits a lone burgundy fortress. Sharp-eyed commuters on the San Rafael Bridge may wonder what this structure is, with its turrets and crenellated parapets. At its feet, a long, narrow wharf stretches across the water toward San Quentin. The Vallejo ferry passes…
Richmond BUILD is a violence prevention program that teaches residents to install solar panels, and helps them find a place in the green-collar economy.
About 30 people gathered at a mid-day event at the 76 gas station in the 1500 block of Carlson Boulevard, the site of a double homicide just days before. A bouquet of roses rested next to the gas pump to mark the spot where Kaneesha Mallard, 19, died.
A woman in Richmond has been feeding abandoned cats along Marina Bay Trail for nine years.
Richmond’s Japanese nurseries were mostly purchased before passage of the Alien Land Law in 1913, which barred Japanese immigrants from owning property. During WWII, the Japanese families who owned the Richmond nurseries were forced from their land and moved into detention camps. Today, the vestiges of these once great enterprises are targeted for redevelopment.
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