A shooting at Oakland's Skyline High School injured a juvenile on Wednesday, and two other juveniles were arrested, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Laney College’s athletic director John Beam was shot on campus Thursday, the second shooting in two days at an Oakland school.

Oakland’s high school violence prevention initiative, a partnership between the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and the city’s Department of Violence Prevention, is on the verge of ending. The ...

One Tuesday night in April, Mikaela Levons, head of development at Equal Justice USA (EJUSA), a criminal and racial justice ...

Several mayors and law enforcement leaders gathered in Oakland Friday to work on ways to reduce gun violence. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee hosted the regional conference to not only discuss but to try to ...

Prosecutors allege the men were members of two Oakland-based Sureños street gangs, subsets of the larger Sureños street gang.

OAKLAND — In a series of early morning raids on Wednesday, federal and state authorities rounded up eight members of two Sureño gangs whose members have come up time and time again in some of the East ...

With 49% of the vote in, Sheffield defeated the Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr., 78% to 22%. She’ll succeed Mayor Mike Duggan, who has led the city for nearly 12 years. Duggan endorsed Sheffield in August, ...

From voices across Pittsburgh’s civic landscape, here’s what may change as Corey O’Connor steps into the role of mayor.