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Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about ...
OAKLAND, Calif. - Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has been indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges related to an FBI bribery case, the Department of Justice announced Friday, six ...
Ex-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao faces criminal charges after she was indicted by a federal grand jury. In June, Thao's home was raided by FBI agents who were seen carrying boxes from the home.
The new mayor’s budget would have been $1.1 million higher than what was allocated to her predecessor, ex-Mayor Sheng Thao, and $1.7 million more than what Thao’s administration spent.
Statewide and regional data generally showed improvements in crime rates last year from 2023, but violent crime continued to ...
The latest statistics from California show that crime in nearly every major crime category was down last year, despite ...
The shootout last year left 14 wounded, only for headlines to be dominated the next morning by FBI raids at the home of then-Mayor Sheng Thao, a criminal investigation that shrouded Oakland in a ...
Oakland values fell so fast that many developers were caught off guard in the middle of their projects. Danny Haber opened his mass timber development company oWOW in Oakland in 2017, just before ...
Details from an FPPC Investigation against Councilmember Priforce were publicly shared in a Substack post by Planning Commissioner Sam Gould.
These 2025 high school graduates can look back with pride and forward with confidence, as we salute them in our annual ...
Several Oakland community groups are calling out the Oakland Unified School District Board of Education over concerns of transparency, leadership and financial management. Velena Jones reports.
OAKLAND, Calif. - A group of community advocates called on the California Highway Patrol to stop chasing suspects on city streets, pointing to a recent chase and crash that took the life of a ...