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A professional dog walker was cited last week for keeping eight dogs in a hot van in San Francisco, prompting an animal rights group to request signs warning dog owners and walkers about the harm of leaving pets inside cars.
A Palo Alto city council committee voted Tuesday night to significantly expand the city's smoking ban to its downtown and commercial areas, but workers and residents have mixed feelings about the proposal.
San Francisco has lost its bid, for now, to change state law to make it harder to evict renters from housing properties. City officials are trying to change California's Ellis Act to help reduce rental evictions.
A new report from ZipRealty finds Oakland homes appreciating at a faster rate than San Francisco in the last year.
A man suspected of stabbing his roommate at their Vacaville home on Tuesday was arrested Wednesday morning in San Francisco, a Vacaville police lieutenant said.
Cal Fire crews have contained a 3-acre brush fire that started Wednesday morning in Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County.
There's little doubt that the larger star in the system known as Eta Carinae will soon expire — and in spectacular fashion. But just how spectacular remains uncertain.
Traffic relief in Silicon Valley will have to wait now that a half cent transportation tax has been delayed until the 2016 election.
A desalination plant for Santa Cruz County has been talked about and studied for years, and now, a civil grand jury said it is the only solution to averting an environmental disaster.
"The Great Horror Campout" arrives in Pleasanton for two days of fright this summer...
The defense lawyer for a reputed gang member who is accused of firing the shot that killed 3-year-old Carlos Nava in East Oakland three years ago alleged Wednesday that the prosecutor, a police officer and key witnesses are lying about the evidence in the case.
Emergency crews were responding Wednesday afternoon to a natural gas leak in Portola Valley, according to San Mateo County and PG&E officials.
Fire crews in Sunnyvale have extinguished a 3-alarm fire that tore through two homes Wednesday morning, one of them a home daycare center.
The Moraga School District has settled two sexual abuse lawsuits and will pay $7 million each to two women allegedly abused by a former teacher, according to district superintendent Bruce Burns.
Open burning is being banned on 31 million acres of land throughout California because of the threat wildfires due to the lengthening drought.
