The Berkeley Resistance skated, jammed, and — at times — soared their way to victory over the Richmond Wrecking Belles in the second doubleheader game of the Bay Area Derby Girls season on Saturday, ending the game with a score of 189-102. Continue reading

Outside his small apartment in Richmond, Travis McGee’s 9-month-old daughter, Honesty, clutches his chest as he shoos his two other little ones back inside a living room littered with toys and laundry. Like all new parents, McGee has been exhausted, freaked out and in love — for the past six years. Continue reading

The Richmond Fire Department tackles a fire near the railroad tracks around Rumrill Boulevard and Market Avenue in this photo via cwwimmer on Instagram.  Continue reading

Below is a “Guest Commentary” published in the Contra Costa Times that is part of the growing drumbeat to bring to Richmond the most rigorous and egregious rent control scheme in California, if not the entire U.S., to Richmond. In its latest draft, the proposed Richmond ordinance would, for example, make the Richmond City Council the Rent Control Board with the authority to send landlords to jail for up to six months. Continue reading

A careful look around the dining room of Little Louie’s reveals just a few allusions to its evening alter ego, Four2Nine: wine bottles displayed on individual shelves along the wall, oversized prints of the label artwork from their house red and house white wines. Continue reading

For more than 20 years, long-forgotten Santa Fe Union Park at Second and Maine streets in south Richmond was an abandoned lot overgrown with weeds, cracking asphalt and a place where all manner of un-park like activities took place. Continue reading

As rising rents spread north through Oakland and Berkeley, Richmond’s City Council has begun intense debate about whether to institute rent control in Richmond – and if so, how.  At Tuesday night’s meeting, the Council sought to balance the desire to stabilize rent quickly with the need to do so carefully, so as not to throw Richmond’s rental market into further disarray. Continue reading

RICHMOND -- More than 80 years ago, Model A's rolled out of the gleaming new Ford assembly plant at the edge of the San Francisco Bay. Today the brick "daylight factory" with tall ceilings and an open floor plan is where state-of-the-art technology of a different era is manufactured -- wearable robots that help humans walk, lift heavy items and run faster. Continue reading

We're taking one more look at Richmond's budget.  See how the city's spending stacks up to that of its neighbors. Continue reading

To share with our Spanish-speaking neighbors, below is Radio Free Richmond's review of Destenny's Ice Cream -- this time, en Español: La próxima vez que cene en el favorito lugar local Portumex, al salir dé una vuelta a la derecha -- estará directamente enfrente de unos de los secretos mejores guardados de Richmond. Continue reading