The city will make a "historic investment" over the next 25 years to ensure streets and sidewalks are more accessible to ...

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

We’re experimenting with a whole new way to get your Oakland news. The Oaklandside is launching a pilot run of Oaklandside ...

As a City Council member back then, I supported Measure X and the notion of an independent mayor. I was wrong.

Lee already made two of her most important hires weeks ago: her chief of staff is Miya Saika Chen, who previously worked for former Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas. The mayor also hired Justin ...

Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, a seasoned progressive with more than three decades immersed in California politics, on Wednesday told congressional colleagues she plans to run for Sen ...

Barbara Lee, 77, has served in the House of Representatives since 1998. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Sipa USA. Only two black women have ever sat in the upper chamber: Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois ...

Barbara Lee: My chief of staff Sandré Swanson’s cousin Wanda Green was on Flight 93.I was sitting in the Capitol and had to evacuate and knew that Wanda had gone down—that those brave men and ...

US Rep. Barbara Lee speaks during a remembrance event to pay tribute to George Floyd held by the Oakland NAACP at Youth UpRising in Oakland on May 25, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) Oakland Rep. Barbara ...

California’s new senator, Laphonza Butler, is sworn into the Congressional Black Caucus at the U.S. Capitol last week. Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, second from right, appeared to exude ...

From left, Reps. Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Jackie Speier and Mark DeSaulnier, all California Democrats, leave the party leadership elections, where Lee was narrowly defeated in her bid for ...

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), shown here in 2020, was the lone member of Congress to vote against authorizing military force in Afghanistan in 2001.