As the holiday season approaches, families affected by gun violence gathered in Oakland for a community event aimed at ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- At a rally in front of Oakland City Hall, community groups demanded no cuts to city funding for many of their programs -- ahead of Wednesday's city council budget meeting.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The issue of policing is once again front and center in Oakland. Barry Donelan, the president of the Oakland Police Officers Association, says the problem is out of control.

The city of Oakland is reeling after a 15-year-old student was shot at Skyline High School on Wednesday, and the next day a beloved former football coach was shot and killed at Laney College. On ...

Violence prevention and intervention services in Oakland — including hospital visits to gunshot wound victims, relocation assistance for shooting survivors and their families, and housing, employment, ...

Oakland has a police academy and a fire academy, intensive training programs where cadets are given skills they’ll need to work as police officers and firefighters. In two years, it will also have a ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland city leaders are touting a recent decline in violent crime as evidence that their Ceasefire program is making an impact. At a community meeting held Thursday at St. Columba ...

Co-Executive Director of the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Assault Cheree Thomas talked about domestic ...

Oakland city councilmembers redirected $18 million proposed for police spending from the mayor’s budget to alternative methods of violence prevention when the council passed a $3.8 billion budget ...

Michael Moore — fast-becoming the poster celebrity for the Occupy Wall Street movement — paid a visit to Rachel Maddow‘s program Thursday evening to discuss, among other issues, the recent outbursts ...

A rally is scheduled in Oakland on Saturday against this week’s gun violence, which included a deadly shootout during a robbery attempt at a local business. Mayor Barbara Lee says the robbery that ...

As the holiday season approaches, families affected by gun violence gathered in Oakland for a community event aimed at ...