Poll Finds California Voters Split Over Repealing Death Penalty
A new Field Poll shows California voters split over a November ballot initiative seeking to repeal the death penalty.
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A new Field Poll shows California voters split over a November ballot initiative seeking to repeal the death penalty.
San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar is picking up the pace of the healthy food movement with a new proposal that would focus on stocking corner stores with fresh produce, especially in neighborhoods that lack full-service supermarkets.
New research indicates that nearly a third of likely Asian American voters have yet to decide who they're voting for in this year's presidential election, a significantly higher total than the general population.
Bay Area volunteers for the Obama and Romney campaigns are headed to states like Nevada and Colorado, hoping to swing voters in their direction.
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill aimed at cracking down on underage drinking on party buses, this after two fatal incidents in the last three years in the Bay Area.
A CBS 5 investigation prompted Bay Area State Senator Leland Yee to close what gun control advocates called a giant loophole. But the effort to ban the so-called "bullet button" became a bureaucratic mess and eventually fizzled out.
The man who never tires of telling people he'll be back returned again Monday, this time as a global policy wonk and statesman dedicated to leading America into what he calls a new post-partisan era.
A University of San Francisco administrator has resigned amid a campus-wide debate over aggressive recruitment of foreign students, many of whom are enrolling at the private institution with limited English language skills.
California's "three strikes" law is 18 years old and is again the subject of heated debate.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney left the Bay Area and headed to San Diego and Los Angeles to raise California cash Saturday.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrived in the Bay Area on Friday for a private fundraising event in Hillsborough.
The secretary of state's office reports that more than 17 million Californians are registered to vote ahead of the November presidential election, or nearly 73 percent of those who are eligible to cast a ballot.
While city officials approved plans for a Union Square station on the Central Subway, opponents said they could file lawsuits to put the brakes on the project with the hope of derailing it entirely.
On an average day, the Mother Jones website gets about 150,000 views, but after they released undercover video of Mitt Romney, hits jumped to two million in a matter of minutes. The San Francisco magazine's co-editor discussed how they got their hands on the video in an interview with CBS 5.
Cash is king in the campaign to be president, and the latest figures show one candidate outpacing the other by nearly $20 million.
