West Coast Port Shut Down Could Happen Soon, But Union Believes Labor Deal Is Close
Longshoremen and their employers continue to negotiate, but the Pacific Maritime Association said a shut down could occur as soon as next week.
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Longshoremen and their employers continue to negotiate, but the Pacific Maritime Association said a shut down could occur as soon as next week.
Two California lawmakers who want to make sure as many schoolkids as possible get immunized announced a new bill in Sacramento on Wednesday that would no longer allow parents to exempt their children from vaccines simply because it goes against their personal beliefs.
California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are asking state health officials to reconsider the state's policy on vaccine exemptions.
After 43-days without rain, a strong storm is making a beeline for the Bay Area, and a mission on the Pacific Ocean could unlock a solution to our ongoing drought.
California prison officials say the marriage license of Charles Manson and a 26-year-old devotee is set to expire without a wedding taking place.
It's a crime straight out of the wild west with a with a California twist. Bee rustlers have become the state's new outlaws.
The Bay Area is home to pockets of unvaccinated school children numbering in the thousands, according to data from the California Department of Public Health, and Marin public schools showed some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state with many private religious and Waldorf schools reporting a majority of students not up to date on vaccines.
Senate Bill 151 from state Senator Ed Hernandez would make California the first state in the country to raise the minimum smoking age as high as 21.
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck off the coast in the Pacific Ocean at 11:13 a.m. Thursday, the latest in 9 tremors recorded in southern Humboldt county since a Magnitude 5.7 quake hit around 1 p.m. Wednesday.
The Boy Scouts of America agreed Thursday to settle a lawsuit by a 20-year-old California man who was molested by a Scout volunteer in 2007.
The report from Standard & Poor's found that contrary to popular belief, lower spending has spurred California's economic recovery, and not higher revenues.
Falling gas prices have been a welcome relief for Bay Area drivers, but they pose a serious problem for state coffers.
Uber has allegedly been under fire for suspending some of its drivers after complying with advice from California officials. But the app-based, commercial ride-booking service says that's not the case.
Proposition 47, passed by state voters last year, reduced a slew of non-violent felony crimes to misdemeanors, but police say the expected cost savings for law enforcement in San Francisco hasn't yet materialized.
With an asteroid a third of a mile wide set to soar past Earth Jan. 26, scientists and amateur astronomers alike will be looking up.
While county health officials in Alameda, Santa Clara and San Francisco aren't seeing an increase in demand for the measles-mumps-rubella, or MMR, vaccine in the wake of the measles outbreak that began at Disneyland.
Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer says he will not enter the race to succeed California Sen. Barbara Boxer.
An earthquake measuring magnitude 4.5 struck the seismically active northwest corner of Nevada, near the California border early Thursday morning.
California public health officials say that if you haven't gotten your measles shot, you should avoid Disneyland. Cases of the disease statewide has reached 59, but they aren't all Disney related.
The proposal would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication nearly a decade after similar legislation failed. Terminally ill patients can legally take their lives in five states, including Oregon.
An organic San Francisco restaurant is celebrating the Jan. 1 launch of a new California law that finally allows dogs in restaurant's outside dining areas by throwing the Bay Area's very first doggie brunch.
People frustrated by drones flying over their neighborhoods may have a new way to fight back.
Pharmacies in the Bay Area are rationing the cough syrup that doctors prescribe for upper respiratory infections due to the severe flu season.
Dr. Jennifer Scarlett from the SF SPCA weighs in on California's foie gras controversy as it relates to animal rights and welfare.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco says California Catholics are elated with the news that Pope Francis plans to canonize Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra.
