OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao spoke publicly on Monday for the first time since FBI agents raided her home last week, defiantly declaring that she is innocent and that she won't step ...

With crime high, police staffing short, bond rating sliding and a massive structural deficit, layoffs seem inevitable.

Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, called for the mayor’s immediate resignation on Thursday. But Thao, who was elected to her post in 2022 for a four-year term, made it clear that she intends ...

A shortfall in the city’s current fiscal year budget recently spurred Oakland leaders to lay off 42 employees and demote 34 ...

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Just two years after successfully electing a 37-year-old with no experience outside city government as mayor of Oakland ... 79-year-old Barbara Lee won’t touch their pensions or force them ...

Votes are still being counted, but with her closest competitor having conceded, Barbara Lee is now considered the mayor-elect of Oakland. And on Monday, she addressed the media with her plans to ...

Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee was long seen as the front-runner in Oakland's special mayoral election. But Loren Taylor had closed her lead in recent weeks by appealing to disillusioned voters ...