A Bay Area city plans to embark on a novel way to tidy up homeless encampments as California desperately tries to tackle its homelessness crisis — by paying the homeless to clean up after themselves.

Earlier this month, the Oakland City Council approved an exclusive negotiation agreement with Costco to develop the city's ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee along with several city councilmembers gathered in the city's Fruitvale neighborhood Monday to ...

A new consultant and a data analyst will help pinpoint inequities faced by Oakland residents The Oakland, California city council on Tuesday voted unanimously to recognize racism as a public health ...

OAKLAND – A busy year for Oakland politics begins Monday as the city holds its first city council meeting. Three new city councilmembers will be sworn in, a new interim mayor will be appointed, and ...

"Big news Oakland! Costco is officially one step closer to opening!" ...

Oakland’s top bureaucrat quit in disgrace over private messages filled with sexually suggestive comments about female ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, a prominent progressive Democrat who represented the East Bay in Congress for more than two decades, said Wednesday she will run for Oakland mayor in an ...