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.

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

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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 ...

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 ...