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

Former California Rep. Barbara Lee, a Democrat, has filed paperwork to run for mayor of Oakland in April’s special election.

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 ...

Residents in Vallejo, California, are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to give them the same kind of police presence he provided ...

Premier David Crisafulli used the new data to again slam the former government’s record on youth crime. “Under Labor our suburbs became youth crime war zones, under siege from a generation of ...

The decrease in California mirrors a national decline, with initial data suggesting a drop in 35 states and Puerto Rico.