Libby Schaaf

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf held a press conference Tuesday to announce a new project designed to help unhoused residents during the coronavirus pandemic.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and other city officials on Tuesday opened another set of community cabins aimed at addressing the city’s growing homeless crisis. The new set of 19 cabins at Oak and Sixth streets, near the Chinatown and Jack London Square neighborhoods, is the seventh such site since the city launched the cabin program in December 2017. Caltrans has…

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf says she opposes a proposed tax break for the city’s largest cannabis businesses that the City Council will consider at its meeting on Tuesday evening.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf joined San Francisco Mayor London Breed in her city Tuesday to hand out turkeys as part of the 13th annual Mayor’s Turkey Giveaway.

Oakland police detained protesters and homeless people in front of city hall early Monday morning.

A drug treatment center is looking to move into the site of a former Catholic elementary school in Oakland.

The city of Oakland has dropped its lawsuit against Alameda County regarding the sale of the Coliseum, according to the Mayor’s Office.

San Jose may have led the way, but the city’s plan to essentially buy out PG&E and into a customer-owned utility has received a huge boost of support.

Drop the lawsuit, and let’s make a deal. That’s the message the Oakland A’s are sending to the city of Oakland.

A judge on Tuesday granted the city of Oakland’s request for a temporary restraining order barring Alameda County from immediately selling its half ownership of the 155-acre Coliseum complex to the Oakland A’s baseball team for $85 million.

The 23rd International AIDS Conference doesn’t take place in the Bay Area until 2020, but local community leaders will hold a news conference Monday to talk about the importance of the event.

A new ballot measure that would bolster the fledgling Oakland Police Commission could be put before Oakland voters as soon as March, less than four years after Oakland voters overwhelmingly approved its creation.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said on Thursday that a federal judge is justified in criticizing her city’s Police Department’s slow pace of complying with all of the reforms mandated by the 2003 settlement of a police misconduct case.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and other city officials launched an ambitious three-year, $100 million street repaving effort called “The Great Pave” on Thursday that focuses on local neighborhood streets and historically underserved neighborhoods.

Two Bay Area mayors withdrew from a panel on homelessness sponsored by Kaiser Permanente as 100 health care workers planned to picket outside the San Francisco venue where the panel is being held Wednesday evening.

Alameda County supervisors have made an offer to lease the Glenn Dyer Jail to the city of Oakland, county officials said. The jail could be used for homeless services.

Immigration activists told Port of Oakland commissioners Thursday afternoon that they’re upset about the recent revelation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials used Oakland’s airport to deport thousands of immigrants between 2010 and 2018.

Executives from The Home Depot were in Oakland Thursday to meet with Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf about two homeless camps that sit close to two of their stores.