Oakland city leaders are touting a recent decline in violent crime as evidence that their Ceasefire program is making an ...

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 sprawling homeless camps that have taken root across the city. Now the ...

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

The Automated External Defibrillators -- which are expected to be installed at Oakland Parks, Recreation and Youth Development facilities -- are portable medical devices used to help people ...

Bay Area cities are toughening up on homelessness. Under Mayor Barbara Lee, will Oakland follow suit? Lee, who took office in May, is under pressure to prove she can manage the crisis ...

The city points to years of research and data that has determined Ceasefire to be what they call, "the most successful gun ...

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte is closing 5 of their 35 sites Northern California sites including one in South San Francisco ...

OPD Chief Floyd Mitchell said the 2023 ransomware cybersecurity attack that crippled some of Oakland's information technology systems set IA investigations into police misconduct complaints back about ...

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

In her first public statements about the bill’s deep cuts to health care and food aid, Lee explains why she stayed quiet until now and what she’s been doing behind the scenes to protect Oaklanders.

Measure W expects to raise $1.8 billion, but federal and state cuts have complicated how the fund will be used to support ...