The Oakland City Council voted Monday to ... Jenkins said six other Alameda County cities already have sales taxes of 10.75 percent, including Alameda, Newark, San Leandro, Albany, Hayward and ...

Twelve Oakland County communities that contract with the sheriff’s office for law enforcement services are scrambling to figure out how they’ll cover a roughly 33% rate increase over ...

Over a half-dozen cities in the county go even higher, per state data, but Oakland does not have its own local sales tax. Meanwhile, property owners pay roughly $1,109 a year in taxes for land ...

The number of rides provided by SMART has plummeted to about half what it was in 2008 — from just under 1.4 million to about ...

Wow, the developers of an Oakland apartment development, have shrunk the project in half, a new application shows. Read the details.