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Trump’s funding cuts and economic turbulence will likely cause cities across the country to face similar challenges.
With crime high, police staffing short, bond rating sliding and a massive structural deficit, layoffs seem inevitable.
Trump’s funding cuts and economic turbulence will likely cause cities across the country to face similar challenges.
Former Democratic congresswoman basks in glow of Oakland mayoral win, as SoCal Democrat’s homeless bill is blocked ...
Oakland Mayor-elect Barbara Lee announced Friday a transition team of politicians, business leaders, philanthropists, attorneys and nonprofit heads that will help her lead the city when she takes ...
A California man has been arrested for the 2004 murder of Fresno woman Barbara Lee, and two separate rape cases from the ...
Robert Castillo, 61, was arrested April 10 after DNA evidence allegedly linked him to the death of a 43-year-old Fresno woman ...
Oakland’s interim mayor is delaying the release of a deeply consequential, two-year budget proposal that had been expected to ...
The body of Barbara Lee, 43, aka Barbara Parker, was found Oct. 31, 2004, was found in a field near California and Polk ...
California police are warning residents that a man charged with the 2004 murder of a woman and suspected rapes of others may ...
A California man has been arrested on suspicion of the 2004 murder of Fresno woman Barbara Lee, plus two separate rape cases from the early 2000s — and authorities fear there may be more victims ...
With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Barbara Lee Locke (nee, Johnson) who left us peacefully on April 24, 2025, at the age of 95. Barbara was born on June 25, 1929, to John and Ella Johnson.