Barbara Lee and Loren Taylor’s backers have tried to paint the other as a continuation of Thao’s administration.

Under Mayor Libby Schaaf, who took office in 2015, Oakland added more than 500 city employees, a 13% increase it could not ...

Voters in Oakland, California, recalled their mayor in November over crime, homelessness and allegations of corruption ...

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As the city faces a major budget deficit, candidates are making their pitch about what they would do to improve the city's ...

The similarities between Lee and the late Mayor Ron Dellums, her longtime mentor, are plentiful. But the comparison carries ...

Kevin Jenkins arrived at Oakland City Hall for a City Council meeting recently as a first-term council member still making a name for himself. He departed several hours later as the interim mayor ...

Oakland is at a crossroads. With Mayor Sheng Thao facing federal bribery charges and public safety concerns mounting, the city's leadership crisis has reached ...

Plus: A crypto billionaire breaks out his checkbook, and city unions try tying Taylor to the scandal-plagued ex-mayor they ...

The Neighborhood Services Division was established under OPD in 1996. Known at the time as the “Community Policing Program,” ...

An overarching structural deficit of nearly $140 million, however, continues to loom over City Hall, clouding the optimism around how Oakland’s finances will look for the next two years.