A prominent Vietnamese American businessman is suing San Jose Councilmember Bien Doan for defamation after the two sparred in court last year — painting an alleged connection between San Jose and a ...

Lee, who represented the East Bay in Congress for 25 years, opened her mayoral campaign headquarters in downtown Oakland on ...

Former congressmember Barbara Lee told a crowd of supporters that she’s ready to lead Oakland as her mayoral campaign kicked ...

After coming up just short in the 2022 race to be the city’s mayor, Loren Taylor tried to keep himself busy. He helped launch ...

Kevin Jenkins arrived at Oakland City Hall for a City Council meeting recently as a first-term council member still making a name for himself. He departed several hours later as the interim mayor of a ...

Jones, well-connected in Oakland politics, first began dating Thao in the early 2010s when he was chief of staff for ...

City Hall official: Ex-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao pushed to promote staffer ... who invited the councilmember on a group trip to Vietnam, paid for by a trade organization led by Duong family members ...

Special election heats up as Barbara Lee and Loren Taylor file for candidacy and recalled Mayor Sheng Thao is indicted.

The CEO of San Jose's recycling hauler was federally charged for allegedly bribing former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and her ... communist ties last year. Councilmember Bien Doan, whose District ...

The CEO of San Jose’s recycling hauler was federally charged for allegedly bribing former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and her boyfriend ... lawsuit over alleged communist ties last year. Councilmember ...

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao stands in front of the United States District Court for a press conference following her arraignment of federal charges in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her longtime partner and two local businessmen were named in an indictment unsealed Friday alleging the four conspired to funnel city business to companies owned ...