The Port of Oakland just appointed its first ever woman executive director. Here's what you need to know about the agency's ...

Now Taylor’s challenge may be finding an identity for his campaign against a progressive heavyweight — former U.S. Rep.

Former congressmember Barbara Lee told a crowd of supporters that she’s ready to lead Oakland as her mayoral campaign kicked ...

Lee, who represented the East Bay in Congress for 25 years, opened her mayoral campaign headquarters in downtown Oakland on ...

OAKLAND — In a shocking Friday court hearing ... a check to pay for election mailers that benefited ex-Mayor Sheng Thao — flyers federal prosecutors now say were part of a larger scheme ...

Mario Juarez had been charged over election mailers that are now at the center of an alleged criminal conspiracy by Oakland’s ex-mayor and a rich and influential family that owns a waste ...

A prominent Vietnamese American businessman is suing San Jose Councilmember Bien Doan for defamation after the two sparred in court last year — painting an alleged connection between San Jose and a ...

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 of a ...

They have the top job and can hire and fire police chiefs and city administrators, but they're not the "strong mayors" some ...