Brown Pins Legacy To California's High-Speed Rail Plans
As concerns mount over the practicality and affordability of California's plan to build a high-speed rail system, Governor Jerry Brown has emerged as the most vocal cheerleader.
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As concerns mount over the practicality and affordability of California's plan to build a high-speed rail system, Governor Jerry Brown has emerged as the most vocal cheerleader.
An assemblyman concerned about childhood obesity introduced a bill that would prohibit food trucks from operating within 1,500 feet of elementary and secondary schools.
Mark Harvin was 18, and high on crystal meth and alcohol, when he broke into a garage that turned out to belong to a state assemblyman a decade ago.
The chancellor of the University of California, Davis is facing a faculty vote on her ability to lead the campus following the widely condemned pepper-spraying of student protesters.
10 of the 15 cities within Santa Clara County have signed a resolution urging the legislative bodies to step up in this regard.
After hearing public comment Thursday, the measure was unanimously approved by the Rules Committee and sent to the full board for a vote.
President Barack Obama departed from San Francisco International Airport Friday morning after making a visit to the Bay Area Thursday to raise money for his re-election campaign.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a fundraising event by President Barack Obama at San Francisco's Nob Hill Masonic Center Thursday to protest a variety of grievances they have with the president, including medical marijuana policies, war, the environment, abortion and birth control.
Patrons at a San Francisco Chinatown restaurant got a surprise Thursday when President Barack Obama walked in to order some takeout.
A group of San Jose State University students started collecting signatures Thursday to put an initiative on the November ballot that would raise San Jose's minimum wage from $8 to $10 per hour.
President Obama arrived in the Bay Area Thursday to attend a series of fundraising events in San Francisco for his 2012 re-election campaign.
Domestic violence victim advocates in San Francisco were expected to unveil a billboard in the city's South of Market neighborhood Thursday afternoon that they said is a reaction to a domestic violence case against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.
Officials at a San Francisco Airport shuttle bus company are being charged with making more than $11,000 in illegal contributions to Mayor Ed Lee's campaign.
Neither of two dueling proposals to change San Francisco's ranked-choice voting system will go on the June ballot, the city's Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday.
An Alameda County supervisor who is married to California's treasurer is undergoing treatment for substance abuse problems after being assaulted in a motel room.
