'Ball Of Fire' Lights Up Bay Area Skies
A ball of fire, possibly a meteor, lit up the sky in the Bay Area and beyond early Thursday morning.
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A ball of fire, possibly a meteor, lit up the sky in the Bay Area and beyond early Thursday morning.
San Francisco's new gross receipts tax, which voters decided to replace the former payroll tax, is going to cost millions of dollars to implement, city officials said.
Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running "Dear Abby" advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94.
The California Public Utilities Commission is holding public hearings Wednesday and Thursday on plans to add a new area code to the current "415" area code zone.
A research firm says San Francisco Bay area home prices rose last month at the fastest clip in more than 20 years.
Despite all those gaudy statistics and impressive physical skills, Colin Kaepernick faced plenty of questions coming out of Nevada about whether he was the product of a gimmicky college offense that would have no chance of working in the pros.
The Great Highway is getting re-paved as part of a $7.3 million improvement project, but will only be partially shut down for traffic.
A motorcyclist who was arrested Tuesday after leading authorities on a pursuit across the Bay Bridge and then crashing on city streets in San Francisco has been identified by the California Highway Patrol as 30-year-old Steven Stanford Jr.
A new U.S. Postal Service stamp marking the Lunar New Year was unveiled Wednesday in San Francisco by city and postal officials.
San Francisco police have identified a man who allegedly killed a woman's dog during a robbery in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood last month as 35-year-old Laurice Barrett.
A new government survey suggests the number of people seeking emergency treatment after consuming energy drinks has doubled nationwide in a recent four-year span.
A man was grazed by a bullet during a home invasion robbery in San Francisco's Mission Terrace neighborhood on Tuesday morning, police said Wednesday.
Director Kathryn Bigelow is defending torture scenes in "Zero Dark Thirty," saying the military hunt for Osama bin Laden wasn't free of moral consequences.
The charter amendment sponsored by Supervisor David Campos would put the question of creating Harvey Milk-San Francisco International Airport on San Francisco's November ballot.
A standoff that started Tuesday afternoon finally ended hours later when a man barricaded inside a San Francisco apartment surrendered to police, a police officer said.
Swords to Plowshares, the San Francisco-based organization that helps train veterans to find jobs, said Wal-Mart's pledge to hire 100,000 vets over the next five years is a big deal.
A long-planned police substation along San Francisco's blighted Sixth Street will open some time next month, Mayor Ed Lee said Tuesday.
A motorcyclist was in custody after crashing into a large truck in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon while allegedly fleeing from California Highway Patrol officers on the Bay Bridge, a CHP spokesman said.
Two pieces of legislation addressing smoking in San Francisco will come before the city's Board of Supervisors at its first regular meeting of the new year Tuesday.
San Francisco lawmakers are considering whether to ask voters to rename the city's airport after one of their own: slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
San Francisco officials say a restaurant chain has agreed to spend $320,000 to settle a complaint alleging that it collected a surcharge from customers for the city's health care law but did not use most of the money for its intended purpose.
The discovery of a possible grenade has prompted police to shut down part of San Francisco's Portola neighborhood Monday afternoon, a police spokesman said.
San Francisco's Great Highway reopened Monday afternoon after being shut down for about three hours because of excess sand in the roadway, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Public Works said.
San Francisco police have released a sketch of a man wanted for attacking and trying to sexually assault a woman in the city's Noe Valley neighborhood earlier this month.
