OAKLAND — Election night results showed former Councilmember Loren Taylor holding a slim advantage over retired Congresswoman Barbara Lee in the race to become Oakland’s next mayor, though thousands ...

Oakland’s incoming mayor announced a transition team Friday that includes a former Oakland city attorney, a former Alameda ...

A new group in Oakland says the city government is dysfunctional and wants to amend the city charter to fix it.

Two months after Oakland ’s city auditor identified over $1.6 million in excess overtime, the city has continued the payments ...

Progressive icon and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee is the new mayor of troubled Oakland, California, a city she represented for more than two decades in Congress SAN FRANCISCO -- Progressive icon ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Oakland voters will head to the polls Tuesday to choose a new mayor in a special election marked by growing frustration over a city leadership vacuum, budget woes ...

Another addition to new city leadership is District Two Councilmember-Elect Charlene Wang, and Fong expects that change is coming. "I remember what Oakland's Chinatown was like when I was a child ...

When former Representative Barbara Lee announced that she would run for mayor of Oakland, Calif., many considered her victory to be a sure thing. After all, Ms. Lee had represented the city for ...

It requires a majority of votes -- greater than 50 percent -- to pass. The Oakland City Council voted 6-0 to place the measure on the ballot in December 2024, with then-councilmember Carroll Fife ...

People in the city will vote for Oakland's new mayor after voters recalled Sheng Thao in November. Out of 10 candidates on the ballot, the two front-runners are former Oakland City Councilmember ...

“Democracy will prevail in Oakland and beyond.” Lee, seen as a stabilizing force for a city in a crisis of leadership ... was more keen to mention his background as a business consultant ...

Barbara Lee declared victory Saturday as the new mayor of troubled Oakland, a San Francisco Bay Area city reeling from economic stagnation, crime and homelessness. Lee issued a statement Saturday ...