Former East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee will be the next mayor of Oakland after former City Councilmember Loren Taylor conceded the ...

In the final days on the campaign trail for Oakland City Mayor, former Congresswoman Barbara Lee and former Oakland City ...

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 ...

Democrats in the state Legislature will try again to give customers relief from expensive energy bills. But some proposals by ...

OAKLAND VOTERS HEAD to the polls Tuesday for a special election to select a new mayor, city councilmember and decide the fate of a half-cent sales tax proposal. The election was called after former ...

Alameda County District 5 Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas on Feb. 11, 2025 at the Alameda County administration building in Oakland, Calif. (Kiley Russell/Bay City News) Nikki Fortunato Bas recently ...

The Alameda County Fair had hoped to take in horses from Golden Gate Fields and become home to a nine-month racetrack. But the fair lost $5 million in what the CEO called the "biggest disaster" of ...

There will be no horse racing this summer at the Alameda County Fair. Some fear that might affect the financial health of the overall fair. The horse racing board chair said he didn't feel that ...