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 ...

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

The idea that Mayor Thao was selling out Oakland even before she won the election, it speaks of arrogance and malicious ...

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

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The proposal includes cutting 80 jobs that are currently staffed. In addition, more than 325 vacancies will remain unfilled.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...