S&P Improves California Bond Outlook To Positive
Although California still faces a $9.2 billion deficit, the credit rating agency said the state has corrected a significant portion of its budget imbalance.
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Although California still faces a $9.2 billion deficit, the credit rating agency said the state has corrected a significant portion of its budget imbalance.
The lawsuit claims the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration failed to enforce guidelines for more than a decade prior to the San Bruno explosion
The project to extend Bay Area Rapid Transit service to San Jose is expected to get all of the federal funding requested by local officials.
To prove that love knows no boundaries, same-sex couples and gay marriage advocates made a symbolic gesture at the San Francisco County Clerk's Office this Valentine's Day.
San Francisco's financial affairs are looking up after tax revenues have come pouring in at a much higher rate than expected, meaning the city's projected deficit is dropping.
San Jose is expected to rescind an ordinance Tuesday that was passed last year regulating medical marijuana collectives. The city's hand is being forced by a successful referendum.
Lawyers for 46 minority students and a civil rights group asked a federal appeals court in San Francisco Monday to allow them to go forward with their challenge to a voter-approved ban on affirmative action in University of California admissions.
The president's $8 billion plan would link community college students with local businesses, a plan that was based in part on research done by a working group that included Foothill College President Judy Miner.
Bay Area transportation agencies are in talks with the state's High-Speed Rail Authority to pay for the "electrification" of Caltrain tracks, which would mean bullet trains moving at speeds of up to 110 miles per hour by 2016, 5 to 10 years sooner than had been discussed.
Attorney Paula Canny says her client is worried that prosecutors may level child endangerment charges against her - because Lopez and Mirkarimi's toddler son was present when the couple is said to have had the loud, physical fight that sparked the New Year's holiday charges against Mirkarimi.
Occupy Cal protesters have set up seven tents on Sproul Plaza on the University of California at Berkeley campus, according to a spokesman for the group.
Several dozen state parks are scheduled for closure throughout the state in 2012. But a state assemblyman from San Rafael has introduced a bill to stop that from happening.
The party swept every statewide office in 2010, has continued to widen its voter registration edge over Republicans and has a chance to gain a two-thirds majority in the state Senate.
As part of the fiscal reform plan, passed by the city council last year, all city employees including the city council, have had to take a 10 percent pay cut, which Chuck Reed said was "crucial" to saving jobs and services.
San Jose's elected officials are being accused of exaggerating projected retirement costs in an ethics complaint filed by three unions Thursday.
