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

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

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

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

Oakland mayor-elect Sheng Thao is greeted by supporters after speaking during a press conference at City Hall in downtown ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mario Juarez had been charged over election mailers that are now at the center of an alleged criminal conspiracy by Oakland’s ...

A California judge on Friday refused to dismiss a check fraud case tied to an Oakland businessman at the center of a federal bribery and corruption investigation into former Oakland ...