06 Dec

To raise awareness and dialogue, the Contra Costa Council on Homelessness screened a powerful documentary, Storied Streets, for free last month at the Nevin Community Center....

01 Dec

Nearly 11,000 runners of all ages brought in food donations for the Contra Costa and Solano counties food banks during the Nitro Turkey run along Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Park paths on Nov. 23....

28 Nov

Rent Board Hosts ‘Just Cause’ Workshops Monday, Dec. 4; Saturday, Dec. 9 The City of Richmond is offering two workshops on the Rent Control/Just Cause program in December. In the coming months, the rent board will establish standards for allowing individual rent increases and decreases due to a rental unit’s conditions, historic rental...

21 Nov

The smartest thing you can do is to preserve your life as much as you can, and if you got to give it up, let it be because you were trying to live....

19 Nov

Each year around this time, we ask young people in Richmond to tell us what they are thankful for. Here’s what they had to say. ...

17 Nov

Now that I am a teacher, I connect with my underserved students the most. I know the struggles they face and how far my encouraging words can go. I support all my students, but the conversations that make the biggest difference are centered around how they can best be model...

16 Nov

10 people were honored at the Crime Prevention awards banquet on October 21 at the Recreation complex. The banquet also celebrated the partnership between RPD and the community. This included honoring civilians and officers for their dedication to Richmond....

15 Nov

For the majority of my life, I stayed quiet and listened to others’ opinions, which is still my greatest strength as a communicator. Now, as a leader — editor-in-chief of The Advocate — I’m directly in charge of a student’s growth, so I must embrace both sides of the exchange....

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