Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about ...

In her first public statements about the bill’s deep cuts to health care and food aid, Lee explains why she stayed quiet ...

OPD Chief Floyd Mitchell said the 2023 ransomware cybersecurity attack that crippled some of Oakland's information technology ...

OAKLAND LEADERS SAID they’re all geared up to tackle the fire dangers associated with the Fourth of July holiday, the ...

Rep. Barbara Lee’s (D-CA) time in Congress might be coming to an end, but a group of Oakland’s top elected officials are hoping she will pivot and run for mayor.. The self-described group of ...

Loren Taylor, right, answers a question next to fellow Oakland mayoral candidate Barbara Lee during a debate Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Oakland, Calif. Credit: AP/Godofredo A. Vásquez.

California Rep. Barbara Lee, who is retiring from Congress early in 2025, indicated that she will be announcing whether or not she intends to join the race set to determine Oakland’s next mayor ...

The race to be Oakland's next mayor may have officially kicked off Monday, but the energy around it is eerily quiet -- and may continue to be until Rep. Barbara Lee makes up her mind about whether ...

OAKLAND, California — Former Rep. Barbara Lee returned from Washington and quickly became the frontrunner for mayor of her chaos-wracked hometown.But the popular progressive still can't shake a ...

San Fernando High School cheerleader Barbara Tutt, now Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, in the 1964 yearbook photo. When Lee first moved from El Paso, Texas, to Southern California, ...

Re: “Lee jumps into mayoral race” (Page A1, Jan. 9). I see that Barbara Lee has decided to run for mayor of Oakland. Do the people in Oakland so love the way the city has been run for the past ...