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The historically close race for San Francisco's District 7 supervisor seat widened a bit, with board of education president Norman Yee now leading by 109 votes as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the city's elections department.
San Jose City Council held a special study session Tuesday to look at new funding options to build affordable housing now that the state has eliminated redevelopment agencies.
During China's last party congress, the cadres in charge of the world's most populous nation didn't know a hashtag from a hyperlink. But five years on, there's a new message from Beijing: The political transition will be microblogged.
The executive director of the Port of Oakland has stepped down, amid a scandal involving the use of public money at a strip club.
The race for San Francisco's District 7 supervisor seat remains historically close, with board of education President Norman Yee holding a 33-vote lead over F.X. Crowley after the latest vote totals were released Monday.
With the November 2012 election nearly a week old in the record books, one question lingers: what is the future for Rep. Nancy Pelosi? Will the popular Bay Area lawmaker retain her role as Minority Leader of the Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives?
Those under 30 helped the Democratic governor win relatively easy passage for Proposition 30, raising the statewide sales tax and income taxes on high earners.
Democrat Ami Bera has increased his lead slightly over Republican Rep. Dan Lungren in their still-undecided race for a Sacramento-area congressional seat.
San Francisco Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting's successful bid for a state Assembly seat has created an opening for a possible double play that would let Mayor Ed Lee appoint another ally to the Board of Supervisors.
For the first time, California had an open primary system in which the top two candidates, regardless of party, advanced to November. And they ran in districts drawn by a nonpartisan commission instead of by lawmakers protecting their own safe seats.
There's a new way to build a gun that metal detectors can't detect. The legal, and unregulated, technology is allowing for the manufacture of plastic guns that will be able to fire real bullets.
The top two candidates are less than 100 votes apart in the race for San Francisco's District 7 supervisor, according to the latest results released Thursday by the city's Department of Elections.
Residents of the Oakmore District of the Oakland Hills , where Mayor Jean Quan resides, met on Wednesday night to demand city leaders provide more police to stop escalating home-invasion robberies and other violent crimes.
With the passage of Proposition 36 on Election Day, California's "Three Strikes" law could change the fates of thousands of state inmates, and now Santa Clara county is making plans for the transition.
A federal judge has blocked part of a voter-approved ballot initiative related to human trafficking.
