SF Legislator Wants Statewide Saturday Voting
A San Francisco lawmaker wants to help boost election turnout by giving voters the chance to cast ballots on Saturdays.
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A San Francisco lawmaker wants to help boost election turnout by giving voters the chance to cast ballots on Saturdays.
Opponents of same-sex marriage say they are asking the California Supreme Court to order county clerks to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
On Thursday, retired judge John A. Flaherty formally declined to restore the 10% cut in wages imposed on police officers in 2011, as San Jose was struggling to balance its budget amidst a struggling economy.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is resigning, to become head of the University of California system.
California prison officials say they won't appeal to the state Supreme Court a ruling invalidating the state's three-drug cocktail means of execution.
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.
