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he number of paroled sex offenders who are fugitives in California is 15 percent higher today than before Gov. Jerry Brown's sweeping law enforcement realignment law took effect 17 months ago, according to figures released Wednesday by the state corrections department.
Mayors from three Bay Area cities gathered Wednesday to support a bid to bring an upcoming Super Bowl to the new 49ers stadium in Santa Clara.
Police expert William Bratton said Wednesday that he thinks fighting Oakland's crime problem is "a very winnable situation."
The city council voted on Tuesday night to get rid of the devices immediately, rather than wait for the contract with a vendor to expire.
Two ordinances targeting the sale and possession of certain ammunition in San Francisco were given unanimous initial approval Tuesday by the city's Board of Supervisors.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning voted to hold a special election on June 4 to fill the seat of former Supervisor George Shirakawa, who resigned Friday amid perjury and other criminal charges.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and civil rights attorney John Burris on Tuesday both welcomed the appointment of police expert Thomas Frazier to oversee long-overdue court-ordered reforms of the Oakland Police Department.
A Congressman from the East Bay co-introduced legislation in Washington on Tuesday that calls for increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
San Francisco city leaders have struck a deal to build two new hospitals, including a scaled-back plan for the controversial California Pacific Medical Center on Cathedral Hill.
San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver, who made controversial remarks about gay players in the locker room during Super Bowl week, has followed on a promise to make amends to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community.
A newly-released KPIX poll finds that while a majority of residents in San Francisco and San Jose think their communities are fairing pretty well, those who live in Oakland have a negative view of the city in which they reside and its leadership.
A majority of San Francisco residents continue to support building a new arena along the city's waterfront to lure the Golden State Warriors across the Bay from Oakland, according to a KPIX-TV 5 poll released Monday evening.
It was always assumed that the Oakland A's-San Francisco Giants dispute over whether the former can relocate to San Jose would wind up in court. That's still probably the case, but now there's a wrinkle.
Set on a gritty corner of Oakland's International Boulevard, the nonprofit Street Level Health Project offers free checkups to patients who speak a total of 22 languages, from recent Mongolian immigrants seeking a doctor to Burmese refugees in need of a basic dental exam.
California lawmakers are seeking to expand a decade-old law that lets counties pursue court-ordered mental health treatment for those who refuse to get help on their own.
