Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee ...

Voters in Oakland, California, recalled their mayor in November over crime, homelessness and allegations of corruption.

Three weeks before the April 15 special election for Oakland mayor, supporters of both Barbara Lee and Loren Taylor are searching for the winning move that pushes their respective candidate to the ...

Barbara Lee. Oakland's Youth Poet Laureate Ella Gordon recited a powerful poem about the magic of living in the diverse East Bay city, while performances from Destiny Muhammad, a.k.a. the Harpist ...

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 ...

Under Mayor Libby Schaaf, who took office in 2015, Oakland added more than 500 city employees, a 13% increase it could not ...

Lee faces lots of questions about whether her time in Congress makes her a good fit for a city facing budget troubles and a ...

Barbara Lee, a progressive icon and Black female trailblazer who represented the city in Congress for over two decades. The 78-year-old Lee is widely considered the front-runner in the April 15 ...