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One day after an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing seven people, officials said the engineer who was behind the controls had previously worked on commuter rail in the Bay Area.
Caltrans is tearing out some of the pricey palm trees lining the entrance to the Eastern span of the Bay Bridge after just one year.
Ridesharing service SideCar announced this week that it would offer medical marijuana delivery to customers in San Francisco.
Fred Kast has the best seat in the house at Golden State Warrior games and he has almost from the start.
Thousands of elite athletes and fun-seekers will take to the streets of San Francisco for the annual running of the Bay to Breakers foot race this Sunday.
A small college in Atherton has drawn in over 100 members from a royal family with its prestige as a top business school.
One in six Starbucks customers now use mobile pay, many with auto-reload linked to their bank account, which automatically replenishes their Starbucks funds, when they get low. But hackers have managed to drain some customer's account balances, and worse.
A brawl among skateboaders and arts and craft vendors in San Francisco was captured on video and posted to YouTube.
Researchers are also concerned about how the increasing number of people growing marijuana on public lands will affect the ecosystem.
(Inside Science Currents Blog) -- Is your wine vegan? It seems like an odd question: wine is made of grapes, grapes fall solidly under the "not an animal product" label, therefore it would seem that wine is a vegan-friendly beverage.
Researchers at UC Berkeley have tested a drug that rejuvenates aging brain and muscle tissue in mice, a discovery that could lead to better anti-aging treatments for humans.
A time capsule that would have remained hidden for a century was unearthed after just thirty-five years under the ground thanks to the Napa earthquake.
(Inside Science) -- From the mid-19th through early 20th centuries, children arrested for crimes in Victorian and Edwardian England were much less likely to wind up back in jail than youthful offenders are now, a team of English sociologists have reported. They credit, among other things, a penal system that provided young offenders with job training.
In an operation that took just over one minute and caught on security cameras, burglars drove a stolen SUV through the front of a department store in Palo Alto Wednesday morning and stole what police called a "large amount" of jewelry.
A Los Altos woman is one of hundreds of users whose pages disappeared after their accounts were unfairly targeted by Facebook's "real name" policy.
