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

During her remarks at a press conference today, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee berated President Trump over his comments on ...

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

Trump promised to activate the National Guard to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department, warning that cities such as ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.