Proposed SF Tech Payroll Tax Would Raise Millions For Homelessness
Tech companies in San Francisco have received millions of dollars in tax breaks for years, but now some city politicians want to make an exception to that rule.
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Tech companies in San Francisco have received millions of dollars in tax breaks for years, but now some city politicians want to make an exception to that rule.
In the Bay Area, not all the homeless are camping in doorways, asleep on the sidewalk or wandering the streets. A growing number of homeless do their best to stay invisible.
Three years ago, the homeless problem at Hawaii's famous Waikiki Beach had reached a breaking point. But the city introduced a strict program that moved transients away from areas popular with tourists.
An Oakland church is expanding its work from preaching to building. Acts Full Gospel Church recently broke ground on a low-income housing project in East Oakland.
Low-income housing is scarce in Oakland, but one church is taking on the matter and working from the ground up.
Cars are like rolling time capsules – typically equipped with whatever hardware and software they had when first manufactured. But, a Bay Area company run by a former Apple employee wants to help drivers of older cars retrofit a safety device that's standard on many new cars.
Congressman Mark DeSaulnier wants to get help from the Feds to install more surveillance cameras on East Bay roads to catch culprits behind highway shootings.
A class-action lawsuit is accusing Best Buy of phantom markdowns, and falsely representing former "original" or "regular" prices.
BART officials are looking at an experiment done in the London Underground that had people coming out of a crowded station organize themselves on the escalator.
A product of the battlefield, a new high-tech syringe has the potential to save lives in mass casualty situations inside big city trauma centers.
From the Bay Area to the biggest show on Broadway, a rapper and an actor won a prestigious Tony award for his work in the smash Broadway musical, "Hamilton."
The woman goes by the name "Celeste Guap," and she told KPIX she started having sex with police officers when she was just 16.
With mosquito season approaching and concerns growing about the Zika virus, residents in Marin and Sonoma counties are finding out a tax they shot down is coming back to bite them.
How did East Bay politicians get Warriors playoff tickets that sell for more than a thousand dollars, for free?
$10,000 dollars apiece: That's the value of tickets we've learned at least two Oakland City Council members have snagged for free, to see game 2 of the NBA finals.
