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California's high-speed rail project became the first in the nation to break ground on Tuesday, aiming to whisk travelers at 200 mph between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours.
The San Francisco Labor Council (SFLC) is joining the fight against Uber and other similar car-ride services. Cab drivers want legislation to regulate rates, license and tax the on-demand transportation companies.
A judge Tuesday reluctantly granted a motion by a 20-year-old Hayward man to be allowed to represent himself in a case in which he and another man are accused of murder for the strangulation death of a Castro Valley woman whose home was also set on fire.
In one of the weirdest winter weather patterns in recent memory, New Year's brought 20 degree lows to the inland Bay Area, followed by highs in the 80s Tuesday in Santa Cruz.
A James Logan High School teacher has been arrested on suspicion of an inappropriate physical relationship with a student, New Haven Unified School District officials said Tuesday.
A man wearing a burlap cloth over his face attacked a woman in Millbrae on Monday morning and pulled her shorts down while she was jogging, San Mateo County sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
A burglar was caught red-handed by workers at a San Francisco kennel after riling up and releasing more than 30 dogs from their cages.
A man wearing a burlap cloth over his face attacked a woman in Millbrae on Monday morning and pulled her shorts down while she was jogging, according to San Mateo County sheriff's officials.
About 100 people who were arrested in an anti-police brutality protest in Berkeley last month appeared in court Tuesday but charges haven't been filed against them.
NASA scientists have identified a whopping 1,000 planets outside the solar system using data from the Kepler telescope, which has recorded thousands more potential planets in our galaxy.
An East Palo Alto man was sentenced to two years of incarceration Monday for stealing a wallet while working as a caterer with his girlfriend at a Belmont funeral reception last summer, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Politically savvy teens in San Francisco are seeking to lower the city's voting age to sixteen.
To the surprise of even health officials, it turns out that most deaths from drinking too much involve middle-aged adults—not teens or college kids.
Two "zipper" trucks have arrived and are set to do some heavy lifting for this weekend's 52-hour Golden Gate Bridge shutdown for the installation of moveable median barriers.
NASA is celebrating 25 years of the Hubble Telescope in orbit with a new dramatic view of a well-known celestial object.
