It’s a hot mid-afternoon and Miami Mayor Manny Diaz is standing on the terrace of a downtown hotel that overlooks a row of swaying palm trees, graceful sailboats and the aquamarine waters of Biscayne Bay.

The mayor of this northern Colorado city has a temporary restraining order against him after he was accused of throwing a 15-year-old boy to the ground when the teen refused to stop riding a motorbike.

For a dozen years, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has routinely defeated all opponents in the Detroit-area congressional district she represents.

State investigators who have been probing Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon’s financial dealings spent more than seven hours searching her home Tuesday.

A West Virginia city council has reduced a plan to raise its mayor’s pay, but the mayor still says no.

A West Virginia city council is hoping to overcome opposition to giving the mayor a raise from the proposal’s biggest foe: the mayor.

Former NBA All-Star Kevin Johnson survived his first political test, forcing a runoff election for mayor against the two-term incumbent in California’s capital.

Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo’s election night party turned tragic when a massive tree branch crashed down and sent a supporter to the hospital.

A 26-year-old T-shirt designer could turn San Diego’s mayoral election on its head.