OAKLAND — The city will open a new Office of Homelessness Solutions to head Oakland’s response to one of its most entrenched ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee has endorsed Senate Bill 79, legislation that would legalize multifamily housing near major transit ...

Despite her relatively lower public profile, Lee has stayed busy — primarily in her mission to reform Oakland’s wonky system ...

Lee appeared in Minneapolis on Monday at the kickoff meeting for the Democratic National Committee, which is gearing up for battle with the Trump administration ...

Democratic Mayor Barbara Lee of Oakland, California, boasted Monday during the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting ...

President Donald Trump has previously floated the idea of sending the National Guard to Oakland to bring down crime in the ...

President Trump has warned he might send the National Guard to other cities. The Black mayors of those cities vow to push ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and a handful of other local leaders on Thursday denounced President Donald Trump’s recent ...

OAKLAND — City leaders were on high alert Thursday after a mass arrest by federal immigration authorities in East Oakland ...

Rep. Barbara Lee leaves a Capitol news conference in May with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Greg Casar other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) ...

Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., stands beside a portrait of her friend and mentor, Shirley Chisolm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.