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The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday censured the actions of Supervisor Efren Carrillo and told him he should resign his 5th District seat because of an incident at a female neighbor's apartment in July.
A federal appeals court ruled in San Francisco Tuesday that a 27-year-old Peace and Freedom Party candidate who was not old enough to be president had no right to appear on California's ballot in 2012.
California's top-two primary system is in effect this year for the first time in statewide races and it looks it will be a huge game changer.
A "mega" crematorium that would cremate 3600 or more bodies a year planned for a low-income neighborhood could lead to increased pollution, according to community leaders rallying against the Neptune Society's planned facility at City Hall Tuesday night.
Facing the possibility of losing a museum for George Lucas' collections, an idea to place the museum at Piers 30-32 has gained support from two former San Francisco mayors.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari is ponying up $500,000 of his own money and launching his first television ads of the campaign.
California state government departments will be prohibited from selling or displaying items with an image of the Confederate flag under a bill that passed one house of the Legislature.
About two dozen Tea Party activists showed up early carrying flags Monday morning to protest a recent federal court ruling in support of a school ban on wearing the American flag.
A San Francisco supervisor has arranged for VIP tours of fetish porn company Kink.com studios for a $300 donation to his campaign for State Assembly.
As Phil Matier first reported in the Chronicle, Joe Montana was also approached by and undercover agent. Matier's sources said the 49er legend, who has been involved in some development deals, was contacted with a "business proposition."
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has asked his staff to come up with a short list of possible sites to keep Star Wars creator George Lucas' proposed museum of filmmaking memorabilia in San Francisco, even as Lucas is considering other locations like Chicago.
California state senator Mark DeSaulnier, speaking with KPIX 5's Phil Matier on Sunday, defended a proposed bill which would punish corporations that pay their chief executives more than a hundred times the median wage of their workers.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War.
Kathleen Knox said she vows to fight waste and fraud in her campaign for Alameda County Auditor and Controller. But the District Attorney has filed charges against Knox, saying she lied about where she lives.
There is concern over a scheduled U.S. flag rally organized by a patriot group this Monday on Cinco De Mayo in front of Live Oak High School—the same school that caught national media attention in 2010 when some students were sent to home for wearing t-shirts depicting the flag.
