As a City Council member back then, I supported Measure X and the notion of an independent mayor. I was wrong.

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 ...

Lee already made two of her most important hires weeks ago: her chief of staff is Miya Saika Chen, who previously worked for ...

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

Mayor Lee, who campaigned on her record of leveraging federal resources, has so far remained silent about a bill that could ...

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, ...

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

Preliminary investigations show that the building was possibly being used as a cannabis grow site, Oakland Fire Department ...

OAKLAND — The country was still six decades away from recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday when Barbara Lee first moved from El Paso, Texas, to Southern California, where she had to ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- There are plenty of not-so-legal fireworks shows lighting up the Bay Area skies Friday night. This ...

We need to do this everywhere’ in town, she says of 11th event in district, where leader met with community days before ...