For her series California Foodways, Lisa Morehouse is reporting a story about food and farming from each of California’s 58 counties. On a corner in Richmond, California, there’s a business that has ...
Some 3,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, office staff and cafeteria workers in Richmond, California, reported to a picket line instead of their schools Thursday in the West Contra Costa Unified School ...
Richmond, California has been on the frontlines of the environmental justice movement for generations. Injustice and industry have long coexisted in cities where Asian, Latine and Black working-class ...
On Aug. 6, 2012, a fire broke out at the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Liquid hydrocarbon spewed from a leaky pipe in the crude unit and ignited, sending smoke plumes into the air that could be seen ...
Chevron paid Richmond more than $58.8 million in taxes and settlement payments — nearly 24% of the city’s budgeted general fund revenue — last fiscal year, according to a spreadsheet sent to ...