The day after her visit, Barbara Lee sat with The Associated Press for an hour at her downtown Oakland office. A veteran ...

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said she has been in "close contact" with police after a student was shot Wednesday afternoon at ...

OAKLAND — The city’s police department is no closer to ending two decades of direct oversight by a federal judge, having ...

Mayor Barbara Lee announced Friday that long-time Oakland police veteran James Beere will take over the department as interim ...

We have a lot of good leaders in the Oakland Police Department,” Mitchell said. “Jim Beere stood above them all.” ...

Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee and Loren Taylor are the leading candidates in a special election for Oakland mayor. Voters ousted the city's last mayor in November amid frustration with crime and ...

Bay Area mayors gathered in Oakland on Friday joining Brady, the gun-control advocacy group, to announce a new regional approach to preventing gun violence — targeting illicit gun dealers. The Oakland ...

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., introduced a resolution this week in the U.S. House of Representatives in an attempt to educate Republicans on the true meaning of “woke” and its connection to Black ...

Former East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee, who Oakland voters chose as the city’s next mayor, promised to continue to represent “all of Oakland” on Monday in her first press conference since winning the ...

Read full article: Councilman to increase SAPD patrol after car crash into West Side home WASHINGTON – Rep. Barbara Lee has always stood apart, a matter-of-fact renegade with a long list of firsts. In ...

Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s political journey began with a pivotal encounter with Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black woman to seek a major party’s presidential ...