Despite harmful environments, most youth in Oakland are succeeding — they are resilient. Having just a few "resilience factors" in a young person's life can make all the difference. Watch video and read more about Oakland youth who are finding strength in their families and community.

The careful move of 6,500 tons of concrete, captured in time-lapse video from early morning hours Sept. 3 on the Bay Bridge.

Workers sawed through concrete and melted through steel to disassemble the 71-year-old viaduct.

The final hour before Caltrans shut down the Bay Bridge Friday evening, the start of a 3 1/2-day upgrade project to replace a large section on Yerba Buena Island.

C.C. Myers talks about his company's plans for replacing a 350-foot section of the Bay Bridge over the weekend.

The Shoot Hoops Not Guns basketball tournament, organized by the Khadafy Foundation, was held on a recent Saturday in Oakland to honor those who have been affected by violence.

In March, a photo class at San Francisco State University's journalism department fanned out through Oakland. Their assignment : find stories about residents who are making a difference in the community.

Charity Gipson lay on the ground, humming to herself. A bullet was in her head, but she didn’t feel any pain. Moments earlier, the outgoing 13-year-old had been dancing at her sister’s sweet sixteen birthday celebration, down the street from her house in East Oakland’s Eastmont neighborhood.

Nearly 50 people from Oakland joined thousands gathered at the state Capitol in Sacramento for the 18th annual Victim's Rights March on Monday.

Kathleen O'Hara knows both sides of grief: As a therapist, she has counseled many people through their grief; as a mother, she saw her worst fears realized when her college-age son, Aaron Land, was brutally murdered on Memorial Day, 1999. O'Hara called upon her own experience and those of others to develop a seven-stage plan for dealing with grief, the basis of her book "A Grief Like No Other".