Nearly three decades later, Mayor Barbara Lee — a political figure with similar name recognition — has begun a shortened term ...

The city administrator recently told employees that a return to office was postponed to June after previously being set for ...

City officials are deciding on a new two-year budget that would pad the new mayor’s office budget with an extra $1.7 million, ...

It's only three days a week, but there didn't seem to be much response, with one of the employee unions, Local 21, saying ...

The incident shocked the city. But it was quickly eclipsed by news of an FBI raid the next day on the Oakland mayor’s house. “This is not what it’s supposed to be like,” said Ma ...

OAKLAND — There was already plenty of cause for stress at City Hall before a series of FBI raids in Oakland last week cast a shadow over Mayor Sheng Thao and the flow of political money in the ...

OAKLAND — One person was killed and another was wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon near Oakland City Hall, authorities said. The condition of the other person shot was not immediately ...

Oakland is facing an estimated $177 million shortfall in the next fiscal year, which starts on July 1st. About 30 minutes before the Friday afternoon budget meeting at city hall, a long line of ...

OAKLAND -- Standing on the steps of Oakland CIty Hall, newly elected Mayor Sheng Thao Saturday said the decision to put the city's police chief on leave was not punitive. Oakland Police Chief ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The city of Oakland's fourth homicide in 24 hours happened Tuesday afternoon along 14th Street next to Frank Ogawa Plaza and Oakland City Hall as councilmembers were holding a ...

It was late September, and to some, Oakland seemed a city on the brink. Four people had been shot dead over a 24-hour span, including a shooting outside City Hall that briefly interrupted a ...