What do you get when you put 50 church ministers and two city councilmen in a room together for three hours? A few sermons, frequent...
2011 was quite a year, to borrow a favorite phrase from longtime resident Sims Thompson, in “our fair city.” I know that’s vague, but it’s...
The City Council voted Tuesday to remove a question about criminal convictions from city employment applications, saying the yes/no “box” was an onerous requirement for...
After more than three hours of contentious debate Tuesday, the City Council adopted an environmental review of a Bicycle Master Plan and a Pedestrian Plan...
The City Council decided last week to spend most of a $2 million tax settlement with Chevron on a conditional contract with transMETRO, a transportation...
City Council office intern David Gray has used his small opportunity to make a big impact in Richmond.
The city of Richmond will foot the bill to send a track team of local kids to New Orleans.
A divided council on Tuesday weighed in on several issues, including increasing funding to local housing programs and projects and proposed Congressional reapportionment that would...
By August, Richmond may have a new representative in Congress – and the city’s leaders are divided over whether that’s a step in the right...
Councilman Tom Butt and other Richmond leaders want to ban plastic bags in retail and grocery stores, with or without the support of neighboring cities.
Richmond appears on its way to becoming the first city in Contra Costa County to issue its own municipal identification cards, which will be available...
About 20 people gathered in front of the El Cerrito offices of Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia late Friday to protest a transfer of...
George Livingston, the city’s first elected black mayor.
