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Last update: 2:55 pm Tuesday, October 10, 2023 A big rig plowed into a toll booth at the Richmond Bridge Monday night, killing the driver and leaving the bridge closed for hours as responders worked to extinguish the blaze and assess the damage. The driver, identified as Jasbir Khaira,
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As the San Francisco Bay Ferry, fully loaded with passengers eager to see the Fleet Week air show, passed back and forth before those gathering along Richmond's waterfront, the small Richmond crowd must have secretly known they had scouted out the best location for the show. With cool
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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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Neighbors who live in the 24th Street area of Richmond's North and East neighborhood are hosting a block party Friday evening designed to encourage neighbors to come out, meet each other, and share their concerns about the area. The event is billed as a "family event"
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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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Kaiser Permanente and unions failed to reach a deal during a bargaining session in San Francisco yesterday, causing an estimated 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees to walk off the job Wednesday morning, including those at Richmond's Kaiser Hospital. While doctors and most nurses are not part of the
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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
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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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If it's proper pub grub you are looking for, you won't have far to go as Pub Owner Nathan Trivers readies to relaunch his Up & Under 2nd Pitch Rugby Pub right in the heart of El Sobrante. Tucked in at the bottom of a green,