Oakland’s violence intervention academy will be modeled after Urban Peace Institute’s peace academy, which was established in ...

OAKLAND — Police investigators around the Bay Area have linked dozens of burglaries to an East Oakland-based gang known as 65th Village, whose members allegedly used stolen cars, sledgehammers and ...

Paul Pierce talks about his childhood growing up in Oakland and Inglewood and how he escaped the prevalent gang culture.

Oakland - Crime scene tape and bullet holes marked the spot where a man was shot and critically wounded in Oakland’s Fruitvale District. Police said the shooting happened Saturday evening on Fruitvale ...

Mayor Barbara Lee said Oakland "is on the move" in her first State of the City speech Tuesday, touting progress made during ...

There is controversy with this proposed injunction as the ACLU challenged it in court and called this Fruitvale injunction disappointing. City officials say there are an estimated 400 Norteño members ...

On Tuesday, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee delivered her first State of the City address amid a host of problems usually only seen ...