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A new initiative aims to amend the Richmond city charter by introducing primary municipal elections to ensure that elected officials receive a majority of the votes. If approved by voters, the amendment will add a nonpartisan primary to the process of how residents choose their leaders. In the current system,
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Updated October 7 at 5:51 p.m. Richmond Police have confirmed a second victim has died in the 23rd Street shooting Friday night. Officers located three victims suffering from gunshot wounds in the 900 block of 23rd Street after receiving a ShotSpotter alert from the city’s gunfire detection
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The Richmond City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to spend $438,000 to protect the turn-of-the-century Winehaven cottages in Point Molate ahead of the rainy season and predicted increased rainfall associated with El Niño. The cottages, built to house winery workers at what was once the world’s largest winery,
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The developer behind Oakland’s sizeable residential project, Brooklyn Basin, unveiled new concepts to transform the Hilltop Mall property on Wednesday night at the Hilltop District Neighborhood Council meeting. The new plan shared by Signature Development Group includes hundreds of new housing units, retail spaces, and new streets that would
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Richmond’s $130 million transit-oriented housing project will add 150 affordable housing units at the Richmond BART station, purchase three new BART cars, install new fare gates, and improve bikeway and pedestrian access. The City of Richmond, BART, and affordable housing developer Pacific West Communities are working together to build
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Public Bank East Bay representatives stopped by the Richmond City Council meeting to introduce their new CEO, Richmond-born Scott Waite. Vice Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, who also serves on the Public Bank East Bay Board, used her councilmember report time at the beginning of the meeting to introduce the newly hired
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As the sun set over Richmond Saturday night, the community gathered on a busy section of Cutting Boulevard to remember Richard P. Perez III, “Pedie,” who died in a police shooting nine years ago. Across the street, music wafted from the open door of an evangelical church’s Saturday night
Revelers took over 23rd Street Friday night, waving flags, playing music, and dancing in the street on the first day of National Hispanic Heritage Month. El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala are celebrating Independence Day today, while Saturday marks Mexico’s Independence Day. Cars and trucks flying flags
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The Richmond City Council is initiating a plan to create a non-police alternative response team for low-level emergency calls within the city’s Office of Neighborhood Safety. The Richmond Community Crisis Response Program is a pilot initiative for a non-police response to calls from Richmond residents staffed by team members
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East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors voted unanimously to allow electric bicycles the same access to trails as traditional bicycles at its meeting in Oakland despite efforts to delay the vote Tuesday afternoon. Park district officials said e-bikes can increase equitable access to trails for an aging population
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The first round of apartment renovations at the senior affordable housing community Nevin Plaza is expected to be completed soon, with residents moving back into their units in October. Construction began in March of this year on the first phase of the Nevin Plaza project, which will completely renovate the
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A report on public safety staffing requested by the Richmond City Council has called the current police staffing levels 'seriously deficient’ to meet the needs of the public and said officer turnover at the Richmond Police Department was an “unsustainable crisis.” The report by Matrix Consulting Group created a