Health
Proposition 61 would prohibit state agencies from paying more for prescription drugs than the lowest price paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Drug companies are spending heavily to defeat the proposition.
The Richmond Police Department beat the Richmond Fire Department with a score of 51-41 on the basketball court at Sylvester Greenwood Academy last Sunday.
Passionate, strict, dedicated and humble were a few of the words used to describe the late Dr. William Jenkins at the opening of a new health center named for him.
A dispute between Mayor Tom Butt and Emeryville real estate firm Wareham Development over contaminated piles of soil stored at a lot on Richmond’s Canal Boulevard came to an end last week, when trucks hauled the dirt off the site.
Residents of an apartment complex on Point Richmond Avenue perplexed by a big pile of dirt at an empty lot next to their buildings with a sign warning that the dirt is contaminated with PCBs, a class of toxic compounds.
Richmond mayor’s office staff and a team of 15 high-school volunteers carried out the city’s first “food census”—a survey of the items on offer at Richmond’s supermarket, grocery and convenience stores.
In the light-filled atrium of the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, nearly 200 people gathered for a town hall meeting assembled by the California Nurses Association (CNA). Over half of the attendees were outfitted in red scrub tops and t-shirts that distinguished them as nurses’ union members, but all were there to rally against the closure of the Alta Bates Campus in Berkeley. Sutter Health, which runs the campus as part of its Alta Bates Summit Medical Center based in Oakland,…
After more than six years spent trying to open up shop, Richmond Compassionate Care Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary, has filed a lawsuit alleging that Richmond’s three existing dispensaries conspired with community organizers and a city council candidate to monopolize the local medical marijuana trade.
More than 2,000 pounds of trash were collected along Richmond shoreline during 2016 Coastal Cleanup Day.