The city agreed to pay an attorney $207,000 and improve its procedures for handling elections and public records.

The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to settle a lawsuit over alleged improprieties in the leadup to the 2022 mayoral ...

The California city has evolved over and over but not always for the better. A new mayor promises to be a uniter, but that's ...

Jerry Brown and other previous Oakland mayors who said she was the seasoned, uniting presence the city needed after a divisive recall of former Mayor Sheng Thao in November. Thao was indicted on ...

On November 5, in a historic move, Oakland residents voted to recall Sheng Thao from office less than two years into her four-year term. Thao is believed to be the first mayor to be recalled in ...

was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision ... who was the runner-up to now-former Mayor Sheng Thao (D) in the 2022 mayoral race and emerged ...

Lee, 78, a progressive icon who represented Oakland and surrounding areas in Congress for nearly three decades, fills the vacancy left by ousted Mayor Sheng Thao, a progressive elected in 2022.