California's Prison Chief Says Hunger Strike Won't Help Inmates
California's prisons chief says inmates who are refusing meals to protest the state's solitary confinement program for gang leaders are harming their own cause.
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California's prisons chief says inmates who are refusing meals to protest the state's solitary confinement program for gang leaders are harming their own cause.
The National Football League and other professional leagues favor legislation by Central Valley Assemblyman Henry Perea to close what they see as a loophole that athletes with tenuous connections to the state to file for what's known as cumulative injuries that occur after years of playing.
The federal government this week stopped shopping for office space to house a permanent Silicon Valley branch of the US Patent and Trademark Office because of sequestration budget cuts.
San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim said the Pledge of Alliance for the first time at the start of Tuesday's board meeting in what she said was a response to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling last month to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Property owners in San Francisco are expected to see an increase in their property taxes this year, after tallying an impressive year-over-year increase.
Corrections officials say more than 30,000 of California's nearly 133,000 inmates have refused at least one meal as part of a protest over inmates held in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison.
A disputed San Francisco waterfront condominium project will could now have two competing measures on the November ballot.
The nation's largest public pension fund announced Monday that it will post data online about nearly half a million pensioners in an effort to be transparent.
Police in San Jose will record the race of every person they stop and question on the street under a new policy that supporters say could finally determine whether officers are racially profiling.
Elected officials praised the first responders in Saturday morning's crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at SFO.
As negotiators for Bay Area Rapid Transit and its unions were back at the bargaining table Wednesday night hoping to end a strike that has snarled the region's commutes for days, a newly released KPIX 5 poll found almost twice as many people think BART management has made a better case than have the unions.
California lawmakers are sending Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that would require public K-12 schools to let transgender students choose which restrooms they use and which school teams they join based on their gender identity instead of their chromosomes.
A panel of federal judges has rejected Gov. Jerry Brown's request to delay its order that California release nearly 10,000 additional inmates by year-end.
The Oakland City Council has agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a dozen Occupy Oakland protesters who said they were the victims of excessive force during clashes with police during a protest in 2011.
More 100,000 people have signed an online petition urging President Barack Obama to oppose efforts by states to block Palo Alto-based Tesla Motors from selling its electric cars directly to consumers, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
