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A second member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has introduced a measure to tax sodas and other sugary beverages, almost identical to a proposal offered by another member last month.
A state senate subcommittee will probe the California Public Utilities Commission on Monday in San Francisco about it's perceived lack of safety enforcement in the years since the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.
More than 21,000 patient care workers plan to target the University of California with a one-day strike on Wednesday.
A sportfish has become a target in the war over water rights in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The debate over the striped bass is coming to light amid a controversial state proposal to build two twin tunnels under the Delta.
The decades-long war for water rights between the Delta and the Central Valley farms further south is coming to a head.
State Sen. Ron Calderon is striking back at the FBI claiming, in a file to the federal government, that the bureau purposely leaked the affidavit that he took $88,000 in bribes because he refused to take part in a federal sting operation targeting President Pro Tem Derrell Steinberg and Sen. Kevin de León.
Tenants advocates in San Francisco want the Board of Supervisors to do more about the number of evictions in the city.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday that her office has shut down 10 private health insurance websites that deceptively imitated the state's official "Covered California" site.
As the death toll mounts in the Philippines from Typhoon Haiyan, the Bay Area's only Filipino mayor is making an appeal that more aid be sent to his disaster-ravaged country.
California's insurance commissioner on Thursday called on health insurance companies and the state insurance exchange to extend a deadline on individual policies through 2014 after President Barack Obama announced changes to his Affordable Care Act.
California's new health insurance exchange tentatively enrolled 35,000 people during its first month of operation, a fraction of the eventual goal in the state with the nation's largest uninsured population.
A $54 million contract to replace San Francisco's aging parking meters has run into trouble at the Board of Supervisors. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency wants to include 10,000 additional meters than the 29,000 needed to change out the existing ones.
A new design for the Warriors arena on Piers 30-32 along San Francisco's waterfront will be released on Tuesday, but will the changes be enough to satisfy the concerns of the naysayers?
University of California President Janet Napolitano's first regents' meeting as head of the system drew about 100 protesters in San Francisco on Tuesday, demanding she be removed from the post.
A conservative coalition is seeking to overturn a recently passed law that gives transgendered students certain rights in the state. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the law, that lets transgender students use either the boys or girls restroom and lets them play on whichever sports team they feel most comfortable on, in September.
