Lee’s inaugural committee raised $290,052 and spent $176,453 on the weekend’s events, which included the 3,000-person ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee isn’t mincing words about President Donald Trump’s latest remarks on her city. After Trump floated ...

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

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

Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities.

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

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee pushed back against President Trump’s remarks on the city being “very bad” on crime.

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

OAKLAND, California — Barbara Lee's homecoming run for Oakland mayor had all the markings of a blowout: Political power players swiftly united behind Lee, a progressive icon in her staunchly ...

Barbara Lee’s mother, Mildred Parish Massey in a college age photo from the 1940s. Massey was one of the first kids integrated into the El Paso schools, the community where Lee grew up.

Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee faces off against Loren Taylor, a scrappy politician 31 years her junior.