California Battle Over Affirmative Action Rages On
With the national discussion on race progressing, leading to another look at affirmative action policies, a push to reinstate such a program in California faces a tough battle on election day.
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With the national discussion on race progressing, leading to another look at affirmative action policies, a push to reinstate such a program in California faces a tough battle on election day.
While Democrats in California won't lose this control of the state legislature -- actually they'll probably expand their super majority in the assembly and senate -- some incumbents are fighting to stick around.
A 39-year-old suspect was in custody and drugs with a street value of $70,000 seized including more than 15 pounds of methamphetamine in a San Francisco drug bust, authorities announced Tuesday.
Among the many intriguing local ballot measures presented to voters in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday are proposals in both San Francisco and Oakland to lower the voting age for local elections to 16-years-old.
A San Francisco firefighter is in critical condition Monday evening after he fell and hit his head when he was struck by a hose line during a response to a high-rise fire downtown, fire officials said.
Pandemic closures have had a deep impact on the businesses in San Francisco's Japantown, an impact that some fear may be permanent.
A man was hospitalized Saturday after two assailants kidnapped him and then shot him before taking his belongings and leaving him on the side of a San Francisco street, police said.
Coming off a 37-27 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, the San Francisco 49ers Monday traded away injured linebacker Kwon Alexander to the New Orleans Saints, according to several news sources.
Work crews were busy Sunday evening boarding up shops surrounding San Francisco's Union Square in anticipation for possible violence and vandalism in the wake of this week's Presidential Election.
As more travelers consider holiday trips and getaways, safety is foremost in their minds. People want to reconnect with their loved ones this holiday season, but they are also evaluating the degree of risk in the era of COVID-19.
With a new surge in COVID-19 cases and a vaccine still not available, organizers for San Francisco's annual Chinese New Year parade announced Sunday they were cancelling the 2021 event scheduled for February.
After more than four decades, three brothers will retire from their popular corner store in San Francisco at the end of October.
City officials discouraged the thousands of revelers who annually flood into San Francisco's Castro District to celebrate Halloween to tone it down this year amid the still surging COVID-19 pandemic. Still some local businesses found alternative safe ways to inject a little fun in the holiday.
As of Friday, San Francisco has received nearly 270,000 early ballots. San Francisco Director of Elections, John Arntz says, a small fraction of which has been rejected for errors, human errors.
Four days out from Election Day, pre-election anxiety is building up for many voters dropping off their ballots and waiting in lines outside polling places.
Officials in San Francisco announced Friday that a rising number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations has led to a pause in expanding business reopenings and allowable activities during the pandemic.
Students applying for admission to the University of California system can't submit standardized test scores with their applications as the system works to phase out the exam requirements, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
San Francisco firefighters responded Friday morning to a gas leak at 38th Avenue and Lawton Street.
Even as San Francisco has begun allowing workers to return to their offices and businesses and restaurants to expand their operations as COVID-19 restrictions have been eased, many residents have been left wondering when the bustling streets will return.
Three men have been arrested in connection with a December 2019 shooting that killed a woman in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.
As COVID-19 cases are spiking in some parts of the country, the Bay Area cities is doing better so far.
Long before Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced her as his running mate, Kamala Harris was the target of widespread online misinformation.
Bay Area police departments are very aware 2020 isn't a normal election year and are responding with increased staffing and coordination with other local officials.
A shooting near the UCSF Mission Bay campus Wednesday afternoon injured a 26-year-old man and set off a San Francisco Police investigation.
As the coronavirus pandemic transforms San Francisco's workplace, legions of tech workers have left, able to work remotely from anywhere.
