Business Owners, Residents Look To Improve San Francisco's North Beach
A group of business owners and residents in San Francisco's historic North Beach district have joined together to clean up the neighborhood and make it a safer place.
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A group of business owners and residents in San Francisco's historic North Beach district have joined together to clean up the neighborhood and make it a safer place.
Around 180 food and retail workers staged a one-day strike at Oakland International Airport Friday, picketing in front of the airport to protest what they say are efforts by their employer to cut pay and benefits.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco Friday refused to block California's ban on foie gras, which is made from the livers of force-fed ducks.
Apple said that, starting Friday, it would give customers credit for functioning older models of iPhones at Apple Stores.
In a sweeping new policy statement prompted by pot legalization of some form in 22 states, including California, the U.S. Justice Department gave the green light to states to adopt tight regulatory schemes to oversee the medical and recreational marijuana industries burgeoning across the country.
Workers walked off the job Thursday at about 30 East Bay fast-food restaurants from Richmond to Fremont as part of a national movement aimed at boosting their pay and benefits.
The huge Sierra Nevada wildfire and its smoke plume have caused some fearful tourists to opt out of plans for the last big travel weekend of the summer, but most appear intent to go through with their vacations.
Federal officials said the San Francisco Giants have paid nearly $545,000 in back wages and damages to dozens of clubhouse and administrative employees for violations of minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping laws.
Motorola's new Moto X phone doesn't cost more to make simply because it's assembled in Texas, research firm IHS said Wednesday.
National chains will have to comply by next year, while locally-owned restaurants will have to do so by 2015.
Readers who tried to click on the New York Times' website got nothing but error messages for several hours Tuesday during the site's second major disruption this month, and people also had trouble accessing Twitter. A hacker group calling itself the "Syrian Electronic Army" claimed responsibility.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal on Tuesday unanimously refused to ban the sale of the soup while San Francisco-area Chinese restaurants and their suppliers pursue their lawsuit to overturn the state law.
The state Employment Development Department plans to begin cutting staff to address declining funding from the federal unemployment insurance program.
Sept. 9 will mark three years since the devastating pipeline explosion that rocked San Bruno; it will also be the final day for San Mateo County prosecutors and the State of California to file criminal charges against the utility for the deadly 2010 incident that claimed 8 lives, injured many, and leveled entire homes.
