Photography
Alternative discipline methods help elementary school drop suspension numbers
Meditation and breathing exercises are daily rituals at Grant Elementary School in Richmond. Principal Farnaz Heydari introduced these practices in an effort to reduce bad behavior, which had led to high numbers of student suspensions.
Evacuation of local animal rescue group following October wildfires reveals challenges for animal shelters
After drawing a tube of blood from the front left leg of Diana, an 8-year-old American bulldog, outreach coordinator John Fonseca commended her as she laid on the bench at the adoption center of Milo...
24-hours a day, BART mechanics labor to get Richmond to work on time
Twenty-four hours a day, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) mechanics repair the electric cars that transport commuters around the bay. But that task is getting harder as BART’s fleet gets older.
Photo Essay: Election Day in Richmond
Photos from around Richmond on Election Day.
County holds free adoption drive in response to impacted shelters
The Contra Costa County Animal Services Department hosted a free adoption drive to deal with overcrowding.
PAAC continues effort to require public art in new business developments
Last Tuesday, Richmond’s Public Art Advisory Committee (PAAC) met to discuss Percent for Art in Private Development, an ordinance that would earmark one percent of large-scale private development project funds for the creation and inclusion...
Photo Essay: Richmond’s Ace Hardware closing after 42 years in business
After 42 years in business, brothers Robert and Patrick Eames’s hardware store on the corner of McBryde and San Pablo avenues is shutting its doors.
Richmond lowriders commemorate loved ones lost to gun violence
On Sunday, lowriders from Richmond and beyond gathered on 23rd Street for a "Cruise for Peace" in the wake of recent gun violence.
Locally Richmond: Fairy wing maker goes national
Locally Richmond is an occasional series of profiles that highlights the small businesses that contribute to making Richmond a unique community. When does an artist know she has reached a milestone in her career? For Angela...
Two Richmond residents collaborate on separate unique art businesses under the same roof
There is no task too big or small or obscure for Brandy Esparza and Kyle Silber, who know how to market an artisanal stamp for a doughnut wrapper, a latex mask for a life-sized Buddha,...
With Broncos in the Super Bowl, Raiders fans react
Richmond Condifential caught up with Raiders fans at Super Bowl City in Downtown San Francisco to ask, “Who will you be rooting for this Sunday?”
Bay Area artist runs unique business inspired by her grandmother
Among the many unorthodox tools Cara Corey has used to make her handmade artist line unique are knitting needles made out of PVC pipe and merino wool fiber (the material before wool becomes “wool”) shipped from...
