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Around KQED- Patients Win Settlement with Anthem
- Water Quality Improves on State's Beaches
- State Health Insurance Marketplace Releases Health Plans
- Airbnb Faces Uncertain Legal Future
- Ashland Youth Center Opens Its Doors
- Stanford Alum Named to U.S. Appeals Court
- The Do List: The One About Dear Elizabeth And Radiation City
- Boy Scouts Vote to Accept Gay Boys
- Apple Accused of Avoiding More Taxes than It Pays
- Economist Challenges Estimates on Bay Area Super Bowl Benefits
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Category Archives: Richmond
News Pix: Endeavor Flyover, Folsom Street Fair, Swimming for Cancer and More
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Some great shots from around the Bay this week. The space shuttle Endeavor embarked on the Bay Area leg of its farewell tour Friday, Sept. 21, en route to its final home at the California Science Museum in Los Angeles … Continue reading
Chevron Disputes Chron Report on Bypass of Monitoring Equipment
Posted by Laird Harrison and Jon Brooks Chevron on Monday took issue with a San Francisco Chronicle report that the company routed a pipe around monitoring equipment so that some emissions at its Richmond oil refinery would escape detection. Chevron … Continue reading
News Pix: Occupy's One Year Anniversary, a Car Made of Scrap and More
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The week in photos around the Bay Area: The "Special Delivery" street art show organized by Endless Canvas in a vacant west Berkeley warehouse on September 8th was attended by about 5,000 people and left in its wake some unwelcome … Continue reading
News Pix: Richmond Family Remembers a Fallen Son and Other Bay Area Images
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We're back with our weekly photo feature. Enjoy these photos from around the Bay and a little further south as well (how could we resist dog mushing!). These shots highlight what's going on in communities big and small. Ulises Grijalva, … Continue reading
News Pix: Photos of the Week
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Cliché, yes. But here at KQED News, we love a great photo that tells a story, a photo that draws you in in ways that text or sound can't. With help … Continue reading
Refinery Fire Probe Looks at Spark Sources
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) Investigators probing the cause of a blaze at Chevron's Richmond refinery in Northern California are looking at heaters and responding emergency vehicles as possible ignition sources for the massive vapor cloud that spewed from a leaky pipe. … Continue reading
BAAQMD Finds 23 'Potentially Toxic Pollutants' in Air Around Chevron Fire, Says 'Well Under Exposure Levels'
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Statement from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District on air quality samples the agency took around the Richmond fire: The Air District had inspectors at the scene of the August 6 Chevron fire, collecting air quality samples from the … Continue reading
Chevron Refinery Fire
Statement from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District on air quality samples the agency took around the Chevron refinery fire: The Air District had inspectors at the scene of the August 6 Chevron fire, collecting air quality samples from … Continue reading
Richmond Residents Tell Us Why Their City Isn't All Chevron and Crime
In May, KQED reporter Mina Kim and I traveled over the Bay Bridge to talk with residents of Richmond in an attempt to learn more about their community and local issues. The event was part of a series of "open … Continue reading
