Richmond police arrested 209 people who crossed onto Chevron refinery property and refused to leave during a protest on Saturday, Aug. 3. (Anna Vignet / San Francisco Public Press)
More than 1,000 people marched from the Richmond BART station to the gates of the Chevron refinery holding sunflowers to protest the refinery's practices. (Anna Vignet / San Francisco Public Press)
A renegade member of a family of western bluebirds in Berkeley's San Pablo Park has captured the interest of naturalists. The fledgling has embarked on intensive hunting forays, even "mugging" a house sparrow and competing with his parents, beak-to-beak, for insects and worms — food he delivered to his younger brother and two sisters in the nest. (Elaine Miller Bond / Berkeleyside)