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The San Rafael Fire Department said at 4 p.m. that a grass fire burning near Highway 101 at Manuel T. Freitas Parkway was under control.

 Housing advocates say many people are often missed in the annual survey.

The county district attorney’s office is now conducting its own independent review of the crash.

The San Francisco Police Department is calling on the public to help identify a suspect who allegedly attacked and strangled a woman in Visitacion Valley earlier this […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom could have nearly $100 billion of extra cash to spend. He wants to give some back to residents.

The officer is now on administrative leave.

"I think we're recognizing that there's something in between a mandate and a world where nobody is covering their faces."

More than 60 firefighters were on the scene of a fire that broke out inside a building in San Francisco's Western Addition, officials said.

San Francisco International Airport reported "partial network issues" at Terminal 1. 

The man and woman accused of kidnapping a 3-month-old boy in San Jose last month tried to take the infant more than once, the Santa Clara County […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Brittanee Drexel was a 17-year-old Gates-Chili High School student on spring break with friends when she went missing on April 25, 2009. It took […]

(The Hill) – The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to children between the ages of 5 and 11, […]

(NewsNation) — Is there an alien force on a mission to explore strange new worlds — like ours? UFO enthusiasts are hoping some of the truth they believe […]

(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden will travel to Buffalo, New York Tuesday in a show of solidarity after a white supremacist targeted Black people at a supermarket and left […]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – A Bay Area teen is finding fame Monday after a chance opportunity to take the stage with the band Pearl Jam.  New music festival […]

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – The remains of a man discovered in San Francisco on Muni rail tracks on the south side of the city might have been the […]

PALO ALTO (BCN) – Police in Palo Alto are looking for a woman suspected of trying to rob an elderly woman of her jewelry by creating a ruse […]

(San Jose Spotlight) – The national baby formula shortage is hitting the South Bay, prompting some stores to limit purchases as parents scramble to stock up on supply. […]

LONDON (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can't move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on […]

DANVILLE (BCN) — Danville Mayor Newell Arnerich released a statement Monday, condemning the group of masked people who on Saturday held up signs at the corner of Blackhawk […]

ANALYSIS: Ballots have been mailed to all 22 million California voters and many have already been returned. As has been the pattern for the last […]

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Our guests this episode are newly-elected California Legislative Black Staff Association Board Chair Alchemy Graham and Vice Chair Cassidy Denny. Graham is […]

The forced removal of a university professor from an LA mayoral debate has intensified discussion in the wake of earlier legislation that seeks greater public […]

OPINION: California is laying the groundwork to transition millions of homes and buildings from fossil fuel heat to clean energy in coming decades, but the […]

OPINION: In giving private health care giant Kaiser Permanente a broad, no-bid Medi-Cal contract that is light on detail, the state could unwind over 40 […]

ANALYSIS: For the past two years, redistricting experts and politicos, myself included, have been building toward the 2022 election cycle. A big part of this […]

OPINION: With the expected blow-out win of Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose re-election was almost assured when he demolished the ill-advised recall attempt last year, pundits […]

Harmeet Dhillon is a prominent Republican lawyer, and a regular commenter on Fox News. She penned an Op-Ed for them last week, "The plot to […]

California’s inability to meet its long-stated goal of cutting solid waste by 75 percent by 2020 prompted environmentalists to craft a ballot initiative aimed at […]

The headlines were attention-grabbing; some were scary: “What will your mother say when she finds your corpse?” “The weed with roots in hell.” “Assassin of […]

Only 28 percent of children 5-11 have received the first two shots, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  

A man found dead in downtown Los Angeles overnight was likely pushed off his bicycle, police said. A call reporting a man down near the intersection […]

Concerns about violence, crime and the pandemic have prompted Americans, especially people of color and women, to arm themselves with firearms for the first time, according […]

A police pursuit ended with a standoff after a woman allegedly put her vehicle into reverse and rammed a police vehicle in East Hollywood Monday night. […]

The man killed in the Laguna Woods church shooting Sunday was a doctor who had tackled the gunman before being shot, officials said. The shooting, which […]

A man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for directing fentanyl-laced pills to be given to rapper Mac Miller before the star […]

A transient was stabbed in the face multiple times in Garden Grove Sunday night and police are looking for the assailant. Garden Grove police responded to […]

A Los Angeles judge has ruled that California’s landmark law requiring women on corporate boards is unconstitutional. Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said the law that […]

The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket wrote as far back as November about staging a livestreamed attack on African Americans, practiced […]

The suspect in the deadly Laguna Woods church shooting was identified Monday as a 68-year-old Las Vegas man who was allegedly targeting the Taiwanese community, Orange […]

This week, in a performance postponed by pandemic, the Tony-award winning musical "Come From Away," is making its first visit to San Diego since it […]

This week in health news, from UC San Diego's Scott LaFee

As the city faces new challenges, artists, innovators and ordinary citizens point the way toward revitalization.

Sophisticated passage led to a house in Tijuana

Chase began when Carlsbad police attempted to stop vehicle late Monday morning; pursuit also wound through Encinitas, Escondido

Firefighters knocked down the blaze that erupted Monday afternoon inside the home on Armstrong Street near Ashford Street

Border Patrol Agent Daniel Salazar was found dead Friday morning following a rollover crash near the U.S.-Mexico border between Campo and Potrero

Christopher Schmittel was arrested in the April 25 crash off Torrey Pines Road

The Navy has established 'Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One' to further autonomous-vessel technology

Just as a second trial was about to get underway the District Attorney's office dropped the case against the Valley Center woman convicted more than […]

More workers are making a return to the office, but the numbers are still far below pre-pandemic levels, especially in the Bay Area, according […]

Oakland soon could become a “sanctuary city” for women seeking abortions. Leaders in the East Bay’s largest city on Tuesday night will consider a […]

Despite announcing a record-smashing budget surplus of nearly $100 billion on Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to spend that money would likely push […]

When Joe Biden talks about his decision to run against President Donald Trump in 2020, the story always starts with Charlottesville. He says it […]

Religious, political and community leaders in San Francisco were brought together Monday to demand action following the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. […]

The Antioch mayor sent a stern message Monday after a police car was vandalized during a rowdy sideshow over the weekend. Lamar Thorpe said […]

One of the largest cities in the Bay Area is facing a sharp rent increase and some local leaders are fighting back, saying the […]

The Abbott Laboratories plant – which recalled its product and shut down after four babies developed a bacterial infection – reached an agreement to […]

The federal government is now offering residents double the number of free COVID rapid antigen tests during its newest round of kit availability, according […]

There’s a lot of COVID-19 circulating in the Bay Area right now, which is why one doctor says public health officials are making a […]

The homeless population around the Bay Area rose 8% overall since 2019 with the biggest rises in the East Bay, the mayor of Antioch is again talking tough on sideshows, and popular Cambodian spot Nyum Bai is relocating, but where?

Former supervisor Matt Haney proposed the Department of Sanitation and Streets to break that duty away from Public Works. The supervisors will vote to make it a reality on Tuesday, though ironically, it will now be a department within Public Works.

If you work for a tech startup — or even if you work for Uber or Twitter — you may be having the layoff blues right now, or the arguably worse layoff anxieties that come with weeks upon weeks of bad news, rising tensions, and inter-office innuendo.

SF police are seeking information on a number of violent crimes from over the weekend, including an early Saturday morning homicide on Balmy Alley, and a set of human remains found on rail tracks near Visitacion Valley.

A Tamalpais High senior got to jam with Pearl Jam at Saturday night’s Oakland Arena show, and even flowed right in after the band's drummer tested positive for COVID-19.

Eight months after a kerfuffle over a Dave Chappelle special and some other subsequent internal conflicts, Netflix took a stand and told its employees last week that they can bugger right off if they have personal objections to content being hosted on the streaming platform.

At least 18,000 booze bags, costumed loons, and even the occasional serious jogger turned out for the first bay to Breakers since 2019 Sunday, and SFist captured a trove of images of the day’s prime silliness.

The data from San Francisco's latest point-in-time homeless "census," taken one night in February 2022, shows the first decline in the number of homeless individuals in the city in seven years — countering the age-old narrative that homelessness is "worse than it's ever been."

The SFPD didn't seem too concerned with the usual shenanigans of Bay to Breakers, at least when it came to people carrying around Trulys and bottles of Champagne. But a private security firm was hired to police any and all booze mid-way up Hayes Hill, and they meant business.

SF's high COVID case rate right now is likely due to how cautious the city has been up to now, police are investigating a double shooting in San Jose, and McDonald's announced that it is fully pulling out of Russia after 30 years.

St. Francis, Valley Christian stay 1-2. Palo Alto, Clayton Valley Charter, Foothill move up.

Kinch learned created a special dish around fava beans grown by the high school's agroecology class.

St. Francis, Livermore, Granada, Archbishop Mitty will enter section playoffs as top teams in the rankings.

Broadway blockbusters, beloved musicals and seldom-produced plays are among the treats announced by Peninsula theaters for their upcoming 2022-23 seasons. Before the new season begins, Smuin Contemporary Ballet is closing its current season with “Dance Series 2: P.S. Forever Smuin,” featuring Val Caniparoli’s playful “Confessions,” set to a soundtrack by American contemporary classical composer Nico […]

Flora de Maria Rivera launched her eponymous footwear line in 2019.

Proponents say Measure B would increase voter turnout — but some say there will be unintended consequences for the city's odd-numbered districts.

May 9 16100 block of East Mozart Avenue: Forced entry was made into a trailer, and items were stolen. 8:52 a.m. in the 1600 block of South Winchester Boulevard: A man, 40, stole items and left without paying. 10:04 a.m. in the 400 block of Kuehnis Drive: During an altercation, a woman, 36, pushed the […]

Three Democrats and one Republican are in the race to succeed Bill Quirk in Assembly District 20.

Plus: There's an easy fix to this infuriating San Jose traffic problem, a reader says.

The boy was a student at Armijo High School, in Fairfield.

David Wenwei Chou's wife had relocated to Taiwan during a divorce. He'd sold the Vegas building he lived in and couldn't afford rent, a neighbor says.

Will Rogers, Leo Carrillo and Dan Blocker were actors. Nicholas beach is named for a robber. Point Dume's namesake is a priest. And other stories behind […]

A series of shootings over the weekend have once again left us all reeling and searching for answers in the aftermath.

When a man began shooting at the congregants — most of them elderly and Taiwanese — Dr. John Cheng put himself in the line of fire.

Environmental health scientists and toxicologists have identified more than 40 DDT-related compounds accumulating in California condors.

Two decades after the MacLaren Children's Center was closed, former foster children housed at the El Monte facility are coming forward with allegations of abuse. Lawsuits […]

Evictions and rent increases still are limited in Los Angeles and many other parts of Southern California. But the rules vary from city to city.

The goal was laudable, but the state's quotas requiring women and underrepresented groups on corporate boards of directors were too intrusive.

Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, whose members were the target of an attack authorities allege was a politically motivated hate incident, released a letter that offered new […]

About 150 law enforcement officials, politicians and others gathered Monday night at a church in Irvine for a prayer vigil.