Oakland has a police academy and a fire academy, intensive training programs where cadets are given skills they’ll need to ...

Hamas has deployed hundreds of police and clashed with armed groups in Gaza in what the militant group says is an attempt to ...

Andrea Zambrana no longer leads the Court Appointed Attorneys Program, the Alameda County Bar Association’s leaders confirmed this week. The program, which is administered by the bar association, pays ...

Thousands march against Trump as MAGA seeks to downplay massive rallies - The president insisted he was ‘not a king’ on ...

An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers went on strike Tuesday to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Palisades Fire was the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles to date and among the five worst in ...

Fifty-nine years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers, Charlotte and Pete O’Neal remain in exile 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 ...

From machete fights in California fields to hijacked railcars in the Bronx, organized crime transformed the humble artichoke ...

MASERU, Lesotho — Puseletso Seema is musical royalty in the tiny African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, where she's known as "the Queen of Famo" -– a popular genre of pastoral accordion music beloved by ...

In Lesotho, a style of traditional accordion music called Famo has become entangled with deadly gang rivalries. Once the soundtrack of shepherds... Lesotho's Famo music: from shepherd songs to gang ...