Former Oakland Councilman Loren Taylor's bid to become the city's next mayor received an unexpected endorsement from the ...

As Oakland mayoral candidate Loren Taylor was out canvassing the streets in Oakland on Thursday morning, standing beside him was San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. "I was listening to a candidate forum the ...

In the upcoming special election for Oakland mayor, one candidate is receiving support from a mayor of another major Bay Area ...

The endorsement bucks from near-unanimous support among Bay Area politicians for Taylor’s opponent, former Rep. Barbara Lee.

Peterson, a former public defender who now works privately on death penalty appellate cases, officiated San Francisco Mayor ...

Carole Keeton, Austin's first woman mayor and the state's first female comptroller, died Wednesday, March 26, at age 85.

Frank Taylor, the longtime San Jose redevelopment director who died this month at 87, lived and reigned through a welter of contradictions. He was a charming man — a Boston native with Tip O’Neill’s ...

The arrests of the Higueras appeared to be in conjunction with those of multiple other people connected with the Brown ...

Before Congresswomen Sara Jacobs and Susan Davis there was Lynn Alice Schenk. Her single term of service isn't forgotten, ...

After spending decades in local politics, former Gilroy Mayor and Santa Clara County Supervisor Don Gage is being remembered ...

Oberstone, an outspoken police commissioner removed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, talks reform and the future of SFPD in exit ...

Voters in Oakland, California, recalled their mayor in November over crime, homelessness and allegations of corruption. They ...