Oakland might have to pay at least $230 million as a result of a federal judge's finding that the city directly prevented a ...

The reprieve for San Francisco was stunning coming from a president who has a history of sparring with California’s big-city ...

Armstrong’s claims against the city over his firing by Sheng Thao “do not rise to the level” of legal violations, a state ...

Rebecca Kaplan has found a new job, and it’s in the same building as her last one.

OAKLAND — Floyd Mitchell is leaving his job as Oakland’s police chief in part because he grew frustrated at needing to answer to so many bosses — or, at least, that is the consensus among several ...

Now that Oakland's latest police chief has given his two-month notice, what's next for finding the city's next top cop?

Oakland has had many police chiefs over the year, in part to scandals, and in part, due to the department's cumbersome bureaucracy, including federal oversight and a powerful, civilian-led police ...

This year, San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener passed a bill that will allow mid-rise housing to be built near transit stops, a win for the pro-housing lawmaker who’d seen two previous attempts ...

Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill survived more than a dozen amendments, two hostile committee chairs and a near-failure on the Senate ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis will drop out of the race for California governor, she announced Friday, exiting a crowded contest in which she was among the top Democratic contenders. She ...

What Oakland’s school and city leaders do and say have long-term consequences. Take the apparent rash and confounding firing of Kyla Johnson-Trammel, Oakland’s longest-serving school superintendent in ...