Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is defending the city against the Trump administration’s portrayal of rampant lawlessness. While ...

Mayor Barbara Lee announced Friday that long-time Oakland police veteran James Beere will take over the department as interim ...

We have a lot of good leaders in the Oakland Police Department,” Mitchell said. “Jim Beere stood above them all.” ...

John Beam, a longtime Laney College football coach featured in the Netflix series “Last Chance U,” was shot on Thursday. The ...

Mayor Barbara Lee says the late college football coach John Beam was a 'giant' in Oakland Appeals court declines to reinstate ...

In separate legal filings, former chief of staff Leigh Hanson and junior staffer Brandon Harami take aim at the conduct of ...

Oakland community members and leaders gathered in the wake of a pair of shootings at two city schools to condemn the deadly ...

The Phoenix affordable apartments opened in West Oakland, offering housing for low-income individuals and people ...

With Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell on his way out, Mayor Barbara Lee on Friday named his interim replacement.

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee called the situation "devastating,” noting it was the second shooting on an Oakland campus in a ...

Twenty of his former players have gone on to play in the NFL.