Barbara Lee has turned into a close contest with a week left to go before Oakland, California, voters head to the polls. Lee, a well-known progressive politician who was against the recall of ...

and Andy and David Duong of California Waste Solutions were indicted on federal bribery charges in January. All four have pleaded not guilty. “I decided to run for Mayor knowing that Oakland is ...

At an Oakland hearing Tuesday ... State Farm -- the state's largest insurer -- is asking California's Department of Insurance for a 17% emergency rate hike. But first, they will have to convince ...

Former Oakland City Councilman Loren Taylor trails former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) by about 5,000 votes, according to the latest election results posted Friday by the Alameda County Elections Office.

A Good Samaritan was honored in Oakland after he stepped in to stop a brutal attack at a grocery store in the city's ...

A high-ranking city official in Oakland, California, has been fired over a resurfaced note that showed her referring to black people as “tokens,” according to reports. Chief of staff Leigh ...

former California Gov. Jerry Brown and former Mayors Libby Schaaf, Jean Quan and Elihu Harris. Brown also previously served as Oakland mayor. But the race became increasingly competitive as the ...

The California Geological Survey recently released ... In a worst-case tsunami, sizeable areas of Alameda, Oakland, and Berkeley could be flooded up to an 18-foot elevation.

“Moderate candidate wins District 2 city council race” is the headline on a San Francisco Chronicle story on Tuesday’s special elections in Oakland, Calif. Sarah Ravani reports on the ...