Civil rights attorney Pamela Price is running for a second time to unseat District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who has held the seat since 2010. First-time candidate JoAnn Walker, a San Francisco police...

Dr. Maynard Douglas Driver delivered Kamala Harris in 1956.

U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) sent a letter Friday to the new warden of FCI Dublin asking her why it appears incarcerated women are facing "significant barriers" in talking to their lawyers and...

A federal judge upheld an $8.25 million verdict awarded to a Black mother and her daughters who were unlawfully detained outside a Castro Valley Starbucks while also denying a pair of Alameda County...

Two rookie Oakland police officers chased the driver of a Nissan 350Z they said was involved in a sideshow event, prompting a deadly crash before fleeing the scene without helping anyone who was...

A bill to install security cameras in the nation's 122 federal prisons could soon become law, in a move championed by sex survivor advocates and many correctional officers themselves. 

Ryan Adler said he is speaking up now as heightened focus is being paid to reforming police departments across the country. He believes his insights as a former officer can help bring light to these...

One day, the cops were called on him for barbecuing with a charcoal grill by the lake. Another day, he’s poised to become a public servant. 

Deputy Alan Strickland has since returned to work, according to Alameda County Sheriff's spokesman Ray Kelly. He has been assigned to administrative duties. 

Actress and musical star Zendaya and her mother, a former Oakland school teacher, are raising money to support the wife and daughters of a popular elementary school coach who was killed almost two...

In an unprecedented ruling, a Contra Costa County judge ruled that prosecutors have disproportionately charged Black defendants with sentencing enhancements that unfairly target them for life in...

Lake Merritt has been abuzz this summer with young entrepreneurs selling art, jewelry, African daishikis and organic juice. 

Body camera video released on Tuesday by Alameda police shows several officers kneeling on top of a man prone on the ground struggling to breathe before he died -- a contradiction of the original...

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff said that his investigation into the federal prison system demonstrates that the BOP is "failing systemically to prevent, detect, and address sexual abuse of prisoners by its own...

Oakland natives Leon Brown and Van Lee wanted to do something nice for someone and after brainstorming a bit, the pair – a preacher and a barber, respectively – gave a 72-year-old homeless man a...

An Alameda County Superior Court judge has ordered the city of Oakland and its police department to "promptly" release thousands of documents on police misconduct investigations every two weeks...

Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on Wednesday for the first time apologized for what happened at a youth-led George Floyd protest last summer and he also announced that he has issued more than...

A total of 41 Alameda County sheriff's deputies, who were stripped of their law enforcement duties last month because they received unsuitable marks on their psychological exams, have been returned...

Aretha Franklin played around the world and was the legendary Queen of Soul. Some remember her early days in Oakland.

The city of Oakland has made finding police personnel records a lot easier with an easy-to-decipher, organized website.

"Yet during this historic moment, OPD is thwarting transparency," the lawsuit alleges.

In stunning upsets, Yesenia Sanchez and Christina Corpus look like they are beating the incumbents in their counties, likely becoming the first two Latina sheriffs in California. Both promise...

In the image, she's wearing a royal blue gown, carrying a black-striped American flag with a thin blue line streaked across it.

Warriors’ guard Steph Curry and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf discuss the important things in life -- their kids, the best tacos and the social activism in The Town -- in a short video on the basketball...

A woman died at Santa Rita Jail on Monday evening, making her the third person to die at the facility there in less than a month. 

Score! Warriors guard Steph Curry mailed 9-year-old Riley Morrison of Napa new Curry 5 sneakers, delivering on his Twitter promise he made about a week ago.

Community leaders are hosting the 2nd annual BBQ ‘N While Black event at Lake Merritt in Oakland, and this year, they said they want to distance themselves from why the big party started in the first...

These starkly different scenarios highlight the widening gap between the haves and have-nots, making the phrase “we are all in this together” ring hollow for those on the bottom rung. The great...

The scandal-plagued Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin is closing just weeks after a judge ordered the all-women's prison to be placed under unprecedented oversight, KTVU has learned.