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

After coming up just short in the 2022 race to be the city’s mayor, Loren Taylor tried to keep himself busy. He helped launch ...

A series of political twists and turns has landed a first time Oakland City Council member in the mayor's office in the next ...

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

A gay former aide to recalled Oakland mayor Sheng Thao has settled his restraining order against an Oakland man who was ...

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

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

OAKLAND, Calif. -- In February 2018 when then-mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf decided to warn her constituents about a ...

Jones, well-connected in Oakland politics, first began dating Thao in the early 2010s when he was chief of staff for ...

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was back in federal court Thursday morning for a status hearing in the criminal fraud case against her and three other defendants.

(Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) OAKLAND — After coming up just short in the 2022 race to be the city’s mayor, Loren Taylor tried to keep himself busy. He helped launch a nonprofit, Empower ...