In news from California, former Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee has been elected mayor of Oakland. Lee had served in ...

Former California Rep. Barbara Lee has won the Oakland mayoral race and vowed to work with city residents to ease racial and ...

Former Congresswoman Barbara Lee declared victory in the race to finish former Oakland mayor Sheng Thao's term on Saturday, ...

Progressive icon and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee declared victory Saturday as the new mayor of troubled Oakland, a San Francisco Bay Area city reeling from economic ...

Barbara Lee, who represented Oakland in Congress for decades, has won a special election to become the city's next mayor.