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The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule by late June in two cases involving same-sex marriage. One is a challenge to California's voter-approved Proposition 8 that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
San Francisco and Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier said she's known about a Secret Service and Capitol Police investigation into lewd online postings threatening her and President Obama.
The California State Legislature returned to work on Tuesday to examine Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget amid a widening divide over how much money the state can spend.
Members of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee will hold a special hearing in Madera on Tuesday about the status of the California's High-Speed Rail project with a focus on rail authority's purchases of Central Valley farm land.
California Sen. Barbara Boxer wants the Justice Department to investigate if the operator of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant intentionally misled federal regulators.
A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday.
This week's vote by the NFL to play Super Bowl L at the new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara in 2016 - and name San Francisco as official host city - will create an interesting dynamic between SF and the South Bay.
With more electric cars driving on Bay Area roads and less charging stations than needed, Santa Clara county supervisors are looking to change local building codes as a solution.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life.
In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.
The state's largest health insurers, including Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield and Kaiser Permanente, will be among 13 plans competing for policies on California's new health care exchange.
State agencies would be required to give journalists five days' notice before they issue subpoenas to a third-party company for telephone records under legislation announced Thursday by a state senator.
President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a Bay Area activist shouting about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security Thursday.
A San Francisco State University professor is drawing scrutiny for a class assignment that asked students to create a political campaign ad.
The San Jose City Council has approved an increase in the legal budget for defending Measure B.
