Sacramento Mayor

Mayor Kevin Johnson wants Sacramento to be the top city in the state when it comes to volunteerism.

When a federal investigation of Mayor Kevin Johnson and his nonprofit St. HOPE was concluded in April, I wrote the words: "It's over."

Sacramento's parks – green spaces that define so many city neighborhoods and are visited by more than 5 million people each year – are in danger of falling into neglect.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is hosting a series of town hall forums on sacbee.com. The mayor's office posed the question below and is asking residents to share their views with Johnson by posting a response.

It's over.

Sacramento is eligible for millions of dollars in economic stimulus funding now that Mayor Kevin Johnson has been removed from a list of individuals banned from receiving federal aid, officials said Thursday.

A Starbucks coffee shop in Oak Park, part of a 1915 brick building renovated by Mayor Kevin Johnson, is one of seven in the Sacramento region and 300 companywide slated for closure.

What a piece of work is Kevin Johnson – the mercurial, magical and maddening mayor of Sacramento.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson threatened to sue the federal government Tuesday if he is not immediately taken off a list of individuals barred from receiving federal funds.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, already making tracks as an activist leader, has won more early supporters than detractors, according to a new survey by the Institute for Social Research.

The city of Sacramento has begun notifying U.S. agencies providing stimulus money that Mayor Kevin Johnson is on a list of people forbidden from receiving federal funds, city officials said Thursday.

The city of Sacramento likely is barred from getting federal money – including tens of millions the city is expecting from the new stimulus package – because Mayor Kevin Johnson is on a list of individuals forbidden from receiving federal funds, according to a leading attorney the city commissioned to look into the issue.

Mayor Kevin Johnson will conduct his third Town Hall-style gathering on Thursday night in the South City Farms neighborhood of south Sacramento.

Just days into his tenure, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and his colleagues on the City Council were on the verge of a bitter dispute.

It may not have been former Mayor Joe Serna Jr. donning a green and yellow cap and boasting he would bring Major League Baseball to Sacramento, but the timing of Mayor Kevin Johnson's invitation to the Oakland A's on Wednesday has people wondering.

WASHINGTON – Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson learned three things when he spent four hours at the White House on Friday.

On his trip to the White House today, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson learned that federal money is on the way, the new president wants to visit, and the vice president wants the ex-NBA All-Star to prop up his pick-up team.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and several dozen other mayors will discuss the federal economic stimulus package over breakfast with President Barack Obama this morning at the White House.

The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to create a city charter review committee, made up of 11 city residents, to explore giving the mayor's post more power.

After taking office in December, Mayor Kevin Johnson started doing something his predecessors either avoided or saw as unnecessary.

Mayor Kevin Johnson is jumping into the drawn-out game of getting Sacramento a new Kings arena.

Every day, it seems, Mayor Kevin Johnson announces more big plans for the city of Sacramento. At the same time, he has quietly shelved some of the big plans he once had for Oak Park.

In the first step toward pitching an alternative to Mayor Kevin Johnson's strong-mayor measure, the City Council on Tuesday directed the city attorney to propose a commission that would review changes to the city charter.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson has asked the city manager and city attorney to change the city's volunteer policy and require "higher-level" volunteers to fill out statements of economic interest and take an online ethics course.