Governor To Skip Opening Of New Bay Bridge Span
California Gov. Jerry Brown will not attend the opening of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, which is set for the day after Labor Day.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown will not attend the opening of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, which is set for the day after Labor Day.
Supporters of former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Pfc. Bradley Manning rallied in San Francisco Wednesday evening in protest of the 35-year sentence Manning received earlier in the day following his conviction on espionage charges.
Sonoma County Supervisor Efren Carrillo made a lengthy public apology Tuesday morning at the first supervisors' meeting he has attended since he entered an alcohol treatment program after his arrest for prowling outside a woman's apartment last month.
The bill, authored by state Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, gives survivors of human trafficking the right to terminate residential leases in order to protect themselves against their abusers. The bill also strengthens existing protections for survivors of domestic violence who are forced to vacate a rental property for personal safety reasons.
A new Field Poll says many Californians are only vaguely familiar with details of President Barack Obama's health care reforms, even though enrollment starts in October.
Gov. Jerry Brown says a superior court judge's ruling that California's high-speed rail plan has not followed the terms of the voter-approved ballot initiative will not stop its construction.
California water officials are proposing changes to a multibillion dollar plan involving two water diversion tunnels for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
A Republican state lawmaker says a new California law allowing transgender students to choose which restroom and locker room they use is part of the reason at least one of his sons will not return to his local public school this fall.
A judge ruled Friday that the agency overseeing the bullet train failed to comply with the financial and environmental requirements voters were promised.
Patricia Wiggins, a former state lawmaker who represented areas north of San Francisco for more than a decade, died Thursday.
Weeping relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead in a Cairo mosque near the smoldering epicenter of support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi, as the death toll soared past 600 Thursday from Egypt's deadliest day since the Arab Spring began. World condemnation widened for the bloody crackdown.
The mayor of a financially struggling East Bay city and several supporters showed up unannounced Thursday at Wells Fargo Bank's headquarters to demand it drop a lawsuit fighting a novel plan to refinance hundreds of "underwater" mortgages.
The state Senate has approved a bill outlawing so-called "revenge porn," which lawmakers say is an increasing problem on the Internet.
California regulators are launching an investigation into offshore fracking after revelations that the practice had quietly occurred off the coast since the late 1990s.
Twenty-four years after the Loma Prieta earthquake, billions of dollars later and - most recently - a bit of drama over bad bolts, multiple well-placed transportation sources told KPIX 5 on Wednesday evening that the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will indeed open on Labor Day weekend.
