Soaring monthly electricity bills charged by PG&E and its utility siblings could hobble California’s quest for a green energy ...

California’s green energy push has helped shove electric bills skyward and could even impede the state’s quest for a clean ...

On New Year’s Eve, as people partied around the globe, a massive power blackout sent Puerto Ricans scrambling in the dark.

Reparations advocates are campaigning for two proposals that failed in the final hours of last year’s legislative session.

Lee’s foray into the contest, after the November recall of Mayor Sheng Thao, would be a seismic political shift for the embattled East Bay city, which is hurtling toward bankruptcy and whose voters ...

Six years in and with two more to go, California's governor, Gavin Newsom, has reached a political inflection point.

A Vallejo, California, resident created a petition calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to send out California Highway Patrol officers to help local officers fight against rising crime.

Oakland firefighters took to City Hall's front steps on Monday to warn of dire consequences if city officials, elected and ...

The $250 million deal tabled the California Journalism Preservation Act, a bill that would have forced large tech platforms ...

BALLOT BOXING — A progressive political group with roots in Oakland has found surprising success exporting California ...

Jenkins was born and raised in East Oakland. He is the son of two Oakland Unified School District employees, a graduate of ...