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State senators participated in a two-hour ethics training session Wednesday, the fallout from a series of legal cases involving Democratic lawmakers this year that have damaged the Legislature's image.
San Francisco's City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed two lawsuits against landlords he believes illegally rented properties to tourists after evicting long-time tenants, two of which are disabled.
UC Berkeley is among more than 50 colleges being investigated for how they handle reports of sexual assaults on their campuses.
An advocacy group dedicated to limiting immigration to California has unveiled a controversial TV ad linking mass immigration to the state's environmental issues.
Oakland City Councilmember Larry Reid said he is very disappointed, and feels the decision disrespects the city and thousands of loyal fans.
An influx of new people may permanently change the face of San Francisco's Mission District. One city leader is looking at creating a cultural district to preserve the area's Latino character.
Oakland's fight to keep the Golden State Warriors appears to have ended with the team announcing that it's inked a deal to buy a plot of land in San Francisco's Mission Bay, but what happens to Oracle Arena?
A lot of people don't think of San Francisco as a 24-hour city, but city Supervisor Scott Wiener disagrees. The lawmaker has taken preliminary steps to improve late-night public transportation options.
Testimony began Tuesday morning in Santa Rosa in the case of a Sonoma County supervisor accused of lurking outside a female neighbor's window in the middle of the night.
The effort to overturn California's ban on affirmative action at state public universities suffered a severe blow with a Supreme Court decision announced on Tuesday.
Student volunteers recently lined up at 9 a.m. to help clean out a homeless encampment in the wealthy Willow Glen neighborhood. It was an in-your-face lesson on how governments can't do it alone.
The Golden State Warriors now plan to build their new arena in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood and Rick Welts, the team's president and chief of operations, said that besides a view, the new site has everything needed.
The Assembly approved a bill Monday that would ban smoking inside home day care centers even after the children have left, a regulation that targets lingering "third-hand smoke" and has been adopted by 12 other states.
Agnos led a group that was strongly opposed to a proposed plan to build the new arena along The Embarcadero, at Piers 30-32.
San Francisco is spending about $458,000 per day to house and help homeless people—that's $34 a day per homeless person. The annual $167 million price tag is $20 million more than the operations budget for the Children, Youth and Family Services department, $6.3 million more than for Public Works and $3.8 million more than for Recreation and Park.
