Barbara Lee is wrong: Oakland is no different than San Francisco and San Jose. Lee’s approach to the homelessness problem is ...

Last year, Oakland voters recalled Mayor Barbara Lee’s predecessor, Sheng Thao, in large part over boiling frustrations about ...

New data shows the number of unhoused residents has hardly budged since 2023 — though more of them are sheltered.

OPD Chief Floyd Mitchell said the 2023 ransomware cybersecurity attack that crippled some of Oakland's information technology ...

OAKLAND — The country was still six decades away from recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday when Barbara Lee first moved from El Paso, Texas, to Southern California, where she had to ...

In her first public statements about the bill’s deep cuts to health care and food aid, Lee explains why she stayed quiet ...

A progressive neurological disorder affecting 10 million people globally, Parkinson’s can cause disruptive symptoms such as tremors, immobility and loss of balance. Now, scientists at Northwestern ...

Mayor Lee, who campaigned on her record of leveraging federal resources, has so far remained silent about a bill that could ...

Renters do not receive tax advantages equivalent to those available to homeowners. Homeowners, if they itemize, can deduct home mortgage interest, and with the increase in state and local tax (SALT) ...

Dan Siegel, A trailblazing activist who dedicated his life to fighting for civil liberties, human rights, the rights of workers and unions has died at the age of 79. His death comes just weeks after ...

We need to do this everywhere’ in town, she says of 11th event in district, where leader met with community days before ...