Edwin M. Lee, a lawyer and affordable housing advocate who was the first Asian-American to be elected mayor of San Francisco, died early Tuesday in a hospital there after collapsing. He was 65 and in ...

Late Mayor Edwin Mah Lee was honored in San Francisco on what would have been his 66th birthday. The city paid tribute by planting a tree in his name on Saturday, May 5. It’s been nearly five months ...

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San Francisco Assessor Carmen Chu was honored with the Asian Pacific American Heritage Foundation's first-ever Edwin Mah Lee Public Service Award on Wednesday night, named after the city's late mayor, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Under Mayor Ed Lee's seven-year watch, San Francisco went from a city mired in recession to a technology-fueled economic powerhouse where housing costs skyrocketed and the chasm ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The medical examiner's office says San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died of a heart attack. Mayor's office spokeswoman Deirdre Hussey confirmed the official cause of death for the mayor ...