San Francisco Planners Approve Treasure Island Development
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Supporters say developing these 400 acres in the middle of San Francisco Bay is a unique opportunity.
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will try to "root out" cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and his son rode waves off Half Moon Bay on Wednesday, while Geithner's daughter received surf lessons.
The California state legislature is about to take up a bill that would tax soda and other sugary drinks with the money raised going to schools to pay for education and children's health programs.
President Obama departed the Bay Area aboard Air Force One shortly before 11 a.m. Thursday, completing his fundraising and economic consensus building mission after a breakfast event at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco.
Visits to youth groups did not make the agenda during President Barack Obama's trip to the Bay Area, so a group of teenagers came to him Wednesday at San Francisco's Nob Hill Masonic Center.
Making his case to a young audience at Facebook headquarters, President Barack Obama said trimming $4 trillion from the nation's deficits over the next 12 years sounds like a lot but can be done.
Norman Elliott asked this Good Question: We've heard of the Tea Party, but what is the Coffee Party?
Gov. Jerry Brown is ordering state agencies to recover millions of dollars in salary and travel advances that were given to state workers but never repaid.
State officials have boosted the amount of water available to agencies that supply 25 million California residents and farms that cover almost a million acres.
A KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll finds growing disatisfaction among Californians about President Obama's job performance.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said he will not accept a scheduled pay raise that was approved by the Civil Service Commission.
The head of San Francisco's Division of Emergency Services is asking for a full report on an incident last New Year's Eve during which the department's computer crashed as a North Beach apartment building burned, leaving 48 people homeless.
San Francisco would no longer tax stock options under a proposal introduced Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors meeting.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office said Tuesday that the average correctional officer already has nearly 19 weeks of accumulated leave time, valued at $600 million.
