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

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee has plans to address the community in response to the Trump Administration’s calling out of the ...

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

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

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

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

Updated 10:05 a.m. Wednesday Former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor holds a narrow lead over former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee in initial results from Tuesday’s special election for Oakland mayor.

Oakland has revamped some of its business and building permits, in part of a larger strategy to boost economic growth.

Two banks in Oakland's Chinatown were rammed by a U-Haul truck early Wednesday, followed by a robbery near an ATM hours later ...

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

Members of Mayor Barbara Lee’s family listen to her speech during the Mayoral Community Inauguration at Jack London Square’s Ferry Lawn in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, June 8, 2025.

Rep. Barbara Lee is the new mayor of Oakland after losing the U.S. Senate last year. She was sworn in on May 20.