Thirteen months ago, we launched the Oakland Charter Reform Project by publishing an op-ed in this newspaper, “Broken Oakland needs more than a new mayor.” In that piece, we laid out the four ...

Oakland's recently departed police chief, Floyd Mitchell, is taking over the top cop job at the city of Fremont, but it's unclear when he'll actually get to work. Mitchell was selected following a ...

When images of FBI agents carrying boxes out of Sheng Thao’s Oakland home hit the news and social media in June of 2024, it was the public’s first glimpse of a possible investigation of the then-mayor ...

Vong Bidania’s earliest childhood memory, faded now like an old color photo, is of an orange bus pulling out of a refugee camp in Thailand. “I was so young, I’m not sure if this is real or something I ...

OAKLAND — Months before speaking to their controversial star informant, federal investigators had already amassed a trove of texts, Apple notes and other digital records against former Oakland Mayor ...

Attorney General Rob Bonta said he would run for reelection in November, ending further speculation that he would enter the race to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom. Bonta said in a statement Sunday that he ...

(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — California’s official political watchdog group announced Friday that it had cleared California Attorney General Rob Bonta of accusations that he had misused hundreds of ...

INVESTIGATION OF RACE DISCRIMINATION. ATTORNEY GENERAL ROB BONTA USE OF NEARLY HALF $1 MILLION ON PRIVATE ATTORNEYS HAS BEEN DEEMED LEGAL BY THE FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION, AND THEY WILL NOT ...

Lawyers for former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao told a federal judge that they won't be asking to move her criminal bribery case out of Oakland. Thao's lawyer is also asking to suppress all ‘fruits’ of ...