When voters hit the polls in Oakland's special mayoral election, they had more than one decision to make. Ranked choice voting has been used in Oakland since 2010, and it's led to some pretty ...

The city of Oakland will give a group of investors more time to close a $125 million deal to buy its half of the Oakland ...

Thao Brinkschulte moved from Vietnam to a boarding school in Germany when she was 16. Now, she works two jobs that she loves, marketing manager and editor for bilingual books published in German and ...

Daytime highs will be mostly in the low 60s on the coast, in the mid 60s to low 70s around the bay, and in the high 60s to mid 70s inland. Overnight lows will be mostly in the high 40s to low 50s.

Substance abuse services in schools and a helpline intended to prevent people's mental health issues from escalating are ...

The Hmong who came to Minnesota have endured decades of war trauma since at least 1945. MinnPost's reporters work hard to ...

In December of 2024, the City Council placed the sales tax proposal, Measure A, on the ballot in an effort to help tackle Oakland's on-going budget shortfall, which is estimated at $280 million over ...

A California city official who was fired over some handwritten documents in which she referred to Black people as “tokens” ...

Former Representative Barbara Lee entered the campaign for mayor of the Bay Area city as the favorite. But her main ...

Former Oakland City Council member Loren Taylor shared his plans to bring change to the "struggling" Bay Area city in an ...

People in the city will vote for Oakland's new mayor after voters recalled Sheng Thao in November. Oaklanders will also vote ...

This weekend is the final push for those running to become the next mayor of Oakland. Former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee ...