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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin recently paired with state legislators on a bill, proposed this week, that ban law enforcement agencies from using DNA of a woman obtained after a sexual assault investigation to link her to an unrelated crime.
Top officials from Ukraine's government sat down for a third round of negotiations on Monday with a Russian delegation, and an adviser to Ukraine's president said "small positive shifts" had been made on efforts to set up safe passage for civilians to flee cities.
The feds are boosting funding to several states for their public transit systems with the goal of making them more environmentally-friendly and help win back riders after they were crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Netflix and TikTok are suspending all or part of their services in Russia, adding to a long list of companies boycotting the country over its war in Ukraine.
The state of emergency that San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared for the Tenderloin last December has a lot of people talking but no one is paying closer attention than the people who live there.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has the power to appoint replacements for three school board members recalled last month and the citizen group that organized the recall is offering the mayor a little help with a list of candidates selected by the people.
California lawmakers are trying again to get rid of the nation's only law that lets voters veto public housing projects, a provision added to the state constitution in 1950 to keep Black families out of White neighborhoods.
A group of residents that successfully challenged the University of California, Berkeley to limit its undergraduate enrollment offered to allow 1,000 additional students in the upcoming academic year, but the university declined, saying the decision isn't up to "a small group of litigants."
Oakland officials will commemorate slain journalist Chauncey Bailey on Saturday by naming part of a main thoroughfare after him.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered state agencies to terminate contracts with companies or individuals subject to U.S. sanctions because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A new pilot program that will compensate low to moderate-income jurors for their service -- the first of its kind in California -- will begin next week in San Francisco, city officials said.
A 51-year-old Modesto woman pleaded guilty Friday to charges connected to a scheme with her son, who is incarcerated on San Quentin's Death Row, to rip off thousands of dollars in federal stimulus check payments.
Russia is blocking Facebook in the country, according to its communications regulator.
The University of California, Berkeley was ordered by California's Supreme Court on Thursday to freeze its undergraduate enrollment at 2020-21 levels, meaning it will have to accept at least 3,000 fewer students than planned for the upcoming academic year.
The invasion of Ukraine continues to impact gas prices in the Bay Area, with prices surging over $5 per gallon in Napa, Santa Rosa, San Rafael and San Francisco.
