Contra Costa County’s Board of Supervisors passed two new financial measures Tuesday providing last-minute help to embattled Doctors Medical Center (DMC) in San Pablo. Continue reading

Below is an update from Chief of Police Chris Magnus which was distributed to the community via email this morning: Continue reading

On Wednesday November 26 the results of the November 4th Election for elected office in Richmond and for the West Contra Costa Unified School District were completed.  Ballots that were mailed in, ballots that were cast on election day and finally, ballots that are considered provisional were counted and tallied. Continue reading

Betty Reid Soskin continues to define herself by her work. At 93, Soskin is the oldest park ranger with the National Park Service. She works five days a week, three of which she spends speaking at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Homefront National Park.  Continue reading

November is designated National American Indian Heritage month, but the contentious relationship between the United States and the Native Peoples of this land remains present in our society. One person’s Normon Rockwell painting is another’s Trail of Tears.  Continue reading

Those of us who live in West County understand the importance of Doctors Medical Center and we know that its closure will have serious consequences on health care. That's why we have been working diligently to save our public community hospital since its bankruptcy in 2006. Continue reading

One in eight people in the area rely on the services of the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano to feed their families. From the organization’s small start 40 years ago handing out day-old bread from the back of a truck, the Food Bank now regularly serves over 20 million pounds of food a year to the community. As we enter the holiday season, the services of the of the Food Bank grows more important to local families, and so does the need for local volunteers. Continue reading

RICHMOND -- With the mayoral election triumph Nov. 4 of Councilman Tom Butt, the question of where real power resides in the new City Council could come down to the decision of whom to appoint to the pivotal seat vacated by his ascent. Continue reading

Every week, Radio Free Richmond provides an offering of events in the city. Here is what's happening from November 21st through the 27th. Continue reading

Jutting out into the Bay just north of the San Rafael Bridge is a stretch of barren, unused land. The area wasn’t always like this. Point Molate was a shrimp fishing camp for Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century, spent the early part of the 20th century as the home of the largest winery in the United States, and was converted into a Navy fuel depot in the 1940’s. Marks of these past iterations persist: most notably, the remnants of oil contamination from Point Molate’s Navy days pollutes some of the soil, making the prospect of future development very expensive.  Continue reading