Robert Blackwell III, 35, was charged with attempting to murder an Oakland officer sitting in his patrol vehicle when bullets ...

San Quentin staff honored fallen Officer Jordan Wingate at a memorial run organized by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.

Individual layoff notices went out Thursday to workers who fill 77 full-time city positions, hitting hardest the public works and Oakland police departments, which respectively will lose 26 and 19 ...

(Shomik Mukherjee/Bay Area News Group) Police overtime has been the biggest source of overspending at the cash-strapped city, ...

Oakland police are investigating two shootings from over the weekend that put one person in the hospital and left another person dead.

OAKLAND — Juan Montiel told his probation officer he was working as a mechanic at an auto body shop on Pippen Street, and sometimes slept there because he lacked stable housing, court records show.