Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about ...

San Jose is required to build 62,200 homes by 2031, according to its state-mandated housing plan. So far, San Jose has completed 3,586 homes in the current cycle, which runs from 2023 to 2031. It has ...

The county jail population has declined since the pandemic, from 3,328 people in January 2020 to 2,749 last month. When the county's judges allowed the pandemic zero bail policy to end in 2022, the ...