Oakland Airport fires back and sues San Francisco over name dispute

OAKLAND — East Bay officials fired back with a lawsuit against San Francisco in the latest twist arising from an increasingly tangled legal war over a quest to rename Oakland International Airport.

The Port of Oakland is attempting to rename the East Bay aviation hub as San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport in a push to dramatically raise the worldwide and online profile of the travel complex.

San Francisco sued Oakland on April 18, claiming that the intended new name for...