Carla Ashford was assigned to be a violence interrupter at Skyline in the wake of two school shootings. Mediators like her ...

Oakland expands illegal dumping cleanup to seven days a week, using labor savings to fund additional operations without extra taxpayer cost.

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 ...

OAKLAND — Skyline High School in the Oakland hills was placed on lockdown for almost two hours Friday morning after a report that a student brought a gun onto the campus, authorities said. After an ...

An Oakland shop owner opened fire on several attempted robbery suspects, the police officers union said on Wednesday. The owner of a Cash For Gold shop shot five people, killing 2 at the 7100 block of ...

OAKLAND — A man shot Sept. 27 on a Lake Merritt area cul-de-sac marred by violence in the past has died from his wounds, authorities said Monday. Isaiah Ireland, 24, who lived in another area of ...