Economy
A 2016 eviction schedule obtained from the Contra Costa County Sheriff Department’s Civil Unit revealed that Richmond has had more sheriff-enforced evictions than any other city in Contra Costa County this year.
A coalition of advocacy groups is challenging the legal right of the California Department of Motor Vehicles to suspend the driver’s licenses of those who cannot afford to pay traffic fines.
A new set of documents filed in an ongoing court case suggest that the heads of Richmond’s three medical marijuana dispensaries may have paid City Councilmembers to back legislation favorable to the dispensaries.
Richmond City Council candidate Jim Rogers discusses crime, housing and jobs in an interview with Richmond Pulse.
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.
But in Richmond, which experienced a high foreclosure rate and a high unemployment rate during the Great Recession, recovery, even seven years later, remains slow.
Most major cities in the East Bay have raised their minimum wage in recent years, and more increases are on the way. With the minimums varying from one place to the next, some workers say they are starting to chase pay increases by enduring longer commutes.
When it comes to shipping coal from California ports, many lawmakers have thrown their support overboard, citing the need to halt climate change by reducing reliance on the fossil fuel. A new statewide regulation prohibits funding for new bulk-coal terminals, and Oakland recently rejected one such terminal in its port.
Residents opposed to a large-scale development project at Terminal One filed a lawsuit against the City of Richmond last month to halt the project.