Many city leaders say the retired congresswoman will unite a fractured Oakland, while some worry she’s more of the same.

Oakland voters in City Council District 2 will also pick a new representative. Born in Texas, Lee was a student at Mills ...

Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, who represented the East Bay in Congress for over two decades, announced plans to run for mayor ...

Lee’s foray into the contest, after the November recall of Mayor Sheng Thao, would be a seismic political shift for the embattled East Bay city, which is hurtling toward bankruptcy and whose voters ...

Oakland is getting another change of leadership. The City Council voted to elect Kevin Jenkins as the new president, who will ...

Lee is likely to clear much of the field, with many of Oakland’s labor and business leaders ready to support her campaign.

The strategy is proactive rather than reactive,” Bas said Monday at a news conference. “It has proven time and time again ...

We counted each councilmember’s votes between September 2023 and July 2024. Kevin Jenkins missed the fewest votes, and Treva ...

Kamala Harris loses, a baseball icon dies, new mayors for Oakland and San Francisco, and scandal rocks a Dublin prison ...

The armed robbery and shooting of a 49er rookie in broad daylight, a ban on restaurant surcharges and the FBI raid on then ...

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has appointed Oluwatoyin Taiwo as his Chief of Staff. Prior to this appointment, Taiwo was the Deputy Chief of Staff to the governor. This was according to ...

Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has appointed Dr Oluwatoyin Taiwo as his Chief of Staff. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Kayode Akinmade, Special Adviser on Media and Strategy to the Governor, ...