A majority of voters in Alameda's special election Tuesday decided to convert several vacant office buildings on McKay Avenue.

Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Campbell, on Wednesday reintroduced a bill in the California State Legislature to make Election Day a state holiday.

Veteran councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan was elected president of the Oakland City Council at the council's first meeting of the year.

Marin County voters elected Lori Frugoli as district attorney by only a few hundred votes.

San Francisco's elections department on Saturday randomly chose 1 percent of the precincts used in the Nov. 6 election to manually count.

District 4 candidate Gordon Mar declared victory Thursday over his opponent Jessica Ho.

Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks issued a statement Thursday blasting news outlets for their coverage of Tuesday's election, in which she appears to ...

San Francisco District 4 candidate Gordon Mar leads Tuesday night against candidate Jessica Ho.

District 6 Supervisor hopeful Matt Haney has pulled into an early lead Tuesday night.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi pledged to work with Republicans on a number of issues -- among them building infrastructure and lowering prescription ...

Concord's first foray into district elections led to two current City Councilmembers winning and a newcomer winning a seat with no incumbent running.

Ron Rowlett appears to have won a close battle for the Vacaville mayor’s seat by a little less than 900 votes with 100 ...

Entrepreneur and management consultant Loren Taylor was elected to be the new councilmember for District 6 in East Oakland.

A measure that would allow for up to 2,200 new residential units and up to 7 million square feet of new commercial development ...

Interest in voting in Tuesday's election hit historic levels in at least two Bay Area counties and statewide.

With nearly half of precincts reporting as of early Wednesday morning, Libby Schaaf had 61.5 percent of the vote.

A Contra Costa County measure to tax and regulate marijuana businesses in a similar fashion to those dealing in alcohol and tobacco won ...

Proposition C, which would tax San Francisco's wealthiest companies to provide funds for housing and rehabilitating The City's homeless, appears To have passed.

West Marin County voters appear to have passed Measure W, a 4 percent increase in the transient occupancy tax.

Voters in Marin County appear to have passed Measure AA, a renewal of a half-cent sales tax to pay for transportation improvements.

Contra Costa County is providing a drive-thru option in Martinez for voters who want to drop off their vote-by-mail ballots Monay or Tuesday.

A racial justice advocacy group announced this week that it is making available $265,000 in grants to support six racial justice organizations to ...

Two cannabis tax measures, three school bond measures and a sales tax measure are on ballots around Solano County for the Nov. 6 ...

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is assisting residents with criminal convictions by launching a new tool to let them know whether they ...

What makes people excited to register to vote? Perhaps, ice cream.

San Francisco voters who have already decided on how to vote for the upcoming election in November can already begin voting.

Voting for the Nov. 6 election began Tuesday in Santa Clara County with early-bird voting open and about 640,000 mail-in ballots.

Under the ballot measure, TNCs like Uber and Lyft would be taxed for each ride originating in San Francisco in amount of 3.25 ...

National, state and Bay Area leaders are paying tribute to former Congressman, Oakland Mayor and lobbyist Ron Dellums, who has died at the ...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has appointed one of her former legislative aides to be The City's new District 5 supervisor.

The reappointment of a San Francisco police commissioner nominated by Mayor Mark Farrell was blocked for the second time in a vote Tuesday ...

San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen will become the next president of the Board of Supervisors after the board voted unanimously to elect her.

San Francisco mayoral candidate and former state Sen. Mark Leno announced Wednesday that he will concede to Board of Supervisors President London Breed.

San Francisco mayoral candidate and Board of Supervisors President London Breed will become The City's first African American female mayor.

Board of Supervisors President London Breed leads former state Sen. Mark Leno by 1,861 votes — an increase of 260 votes since Monday.

San Francisco District 4 Supervisor Katy Tang announced late Tuesday at 5:17 p.m. that she will not seek re-election.