Oakland will need to look at making some severe cuts to balance its budget. The finance department sounded the alarm on ...

America’s most liberal cities and states have shifted their policies to the right in recent elections, as crime and ...

It’s been like the wild-wild west. That’s the only way I can put it,” said Patricia Harris, whose 28-year-old son was shot in ...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is fighting a self-funded philanthropist for reelection while in nearby Oakland, Mayor Sheng ...

Battered by some of the nation’s highest prices — and suffering from public policies that seem to encourage crime, drug use, and more — California’s residents are fed up.

Oakland City Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas is narrowly ahead in the race for the District 5 seat on the Alameda County ...

Bas, appointed as president of the Oakland City Council by her fellow councilmembers, had support from several union groups, such as Service Employees International Union Local 1021, as well as ...

In California, the sequel to a new Trump presidency will have significant implications on how its leaders – from Gov. Gavin ...

Tough-on-crime proposals and politicians won in California, Arizona, Georgia, and elsewhere across the country.

The political landscape has shifted dramatically in Vermont. Nationally, the election showed that partisanship matters most ...

Ever since Donald Trump came down that escalator nine years ago, the geography of American politics has been moving in one ...