A chart of the department’s “core team” shows five positions, or about 10% of the top leaders, turning over in the past six ...

Ray Chavez is a Bay Area News Group photographer for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Ray was hired as Lab Tech at the Oakland Tribune in 1994 and was later promoted to full-time staff ...

The killing of a treasured teacher and musician in a mass shooting at an Oakland nightclub over the weekend has left her loved ones reeling.

A large brush fire that sparked in Spanish Fork on Tuesday is being investigated as suspicious and human-caused, according to ...

Communication failures and questionable decisions led crews to leave the area prematurely; embers from the small Jan. 1 fire later reignited into the giant Palisades fire.