Affordable housing is tough to build in Oakland. The city relies on "impact fees" to do so, but that model faces a steeper ...

Sitting inside the modest office he shares with a colleague, nonprofit executive David Hunt stared at his weekly programming schedule and unleashed a deep sigh. “The more you lose money you’d been ...

OAKLAND — A big apartment complex in downtown Oakland has been bought for more than $60 million, although the price for the ...

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her longtime partner and two local businessmen were named in an indictment unsealed Friday ...

The indictment states that the city official was to be approved by David and Andy Duong - the father and son of a high-profile family in Oakland, which has contracts with the city for its ...

A top city official he didn’t believe Thao’s choice was qualified. But the mayor wanted the staffer in her close circle, the ...

Federal authorities on Friday morning announced details of an indictment against recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her ...

Since then, FBI agents have cast a wide net while investigating Oakland’s City Hall — a dragnet that, federal prosecutors now say, was focused on a bribery and kick-back scheme, alleged ...

All four made an initial appearance Friday. Federal prosecutors allege Thao, who was elected Oakland's mayor in 2022, agreed that the city would purchase housing units from one of the Duongs ...