Lateefah Simon, Democratic rising star and BART board member, faces CSU professor Jennifer Tran to replace Rep. Barbara Lee.

The Oakland Police Department says sideshows occurred in various parts of the city around 2:45 a.m. on Saturday.

In the Bay Area, a few areas that have high traffic but little benefit from public transit include: East San Mateo, downtown ...

Firefighting crews took advantage of calmer weather Sunday to increase containment of a small wildfire in Oakland that burned ...

As Election Day nears, a familiar roster of groups is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to influence the ...

The ballot measures in Arizona and Massachusetts reflect an accelerating debate over the so-called subminimum wage.

Osh, the Oakland Zoo's last African elephant was recently moved from California to an Tennessee's Elephant Sanctuary. How the ...

When it comes to voting on bills, however, the California Legislature does not distinguish between a lawmaker who is absent — excused or not — and a legislator who is present but does not vote. They ...

Harris has recalled working at a McDonald's that her campaign has identified as the location on Central Avenue in Alameda, ...

The Alameda County District Attorney's Office on Monday voiced public safety concerns over the arrest of a second Oakland ...

More than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, social workers and other mental health workers in Southern California have begun an open-ended strike over increased workloads and staffing ...