Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee named a transition team Monday that includes the head of the Alameda Labor Council and the ...

Oakland's interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins fired Chief of Staff Leigh Hanson after a note using "tokens" to reference Black people ...

A high-ranking Oakland city official has been fired after a note she wrote last year that appeared to refer to black people ...

Just after the former Oakland chief of staff was fired over a controversial meeting note that she says she was taken out of ...

Interim Oakland Mayor Kevin Jenkins on Monday fired several top staff members a week before the city’s special mayoral ...

The sweep at the mayor’s office appeared to follow public backlash toward Leigh Hanson, the former top Thao aide who was ...

Former East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee has defeated former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor by a thin margin. The ...

Oakland’s interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins said he was removing key staff members who served under his ousted predecessor, Sheng ...

Progressive icon and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee is the new mayor of troubled Oakland, California, a city she represented ...

Most of the staff working in the Oakland mayor's office was placed on administrative leave Monday by Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins. In a news release sent out Monday morning, Jenkins said everyone in ...

Another Oakland City Hall shake-up is underway involving staff with ties to former Mayor Sheng Thao. Oakland Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins announced Monday morning that most of the Mayor's Office staff ...

Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is neck and neck with her main rival in the Oakland special mayoral election, with the ...