Former Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee was long considered the front-runner in the race. But Loren Taylor, a former city council ...

The ethics commission is Oakland’s government watchdog, overseeing the administration and enforcement of campaign finance, lobbying, transparency programs, and government ethics ...

The special election was triggered by the ousting of Mayor Sheng Thao, whom voters recalled ... sprawling corruption scheme involving Thao's boyfriend and a father-son team who runs the company ...

Loren Taylor has an early lead over Barbara Lee, the former Democratic U.S. House Representative, in the Oakland mayoral ...

A sprawling federal probe into alleged corruption in East Bay politics began in Oakland in June 2024 and appears to have ...

In January 2025, federal prosecutors indicted former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her romantic partner Andre Jones and David and Andy Duong, the father-and-son duo who run the city’s contracted ...

The payment had been part of former Mayor Sheng Thao’s plan to expedite the massive land sale so that the revenue could help plug a crippling budget deficit facing the city government.

OAKLAND — The city has reversed course on what remained of a plan to dramatically speed up the sale of its Oakland Coliseum share, placing the deal back onto a “more conventional” timeline ...

The election was scheduled after former mayor Sheng Thao lost a recall election in November. RELATED: Oakland mayoral election: Top candidates share vision for city, crime and more with ABC7 Lee ...

(AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez) Oakland had a sudden vacancy at the top after voters ousted former Mayor Sheng Thao in November. Thao, who served in the position for two years, was federally ...