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Documents obtained by The Associated Press say that a tiger killed by police in 2007 after fatally mauling a teen at the San Francisco Zoo was likely provoked into leaping out of its enclosure.
Police responded to a request for a well-being check found, and the body of an elderly man in a San Francisco apartment Friday evening, a police sergeant said.
San Francisco Municipal Railway's Muni Metro service operated "very slow and very crowded" on Friday afternoon due to the morning derailment of a light rail vehicle near the Castro Street station.
Nearly all 75 members of the senior class at The Urban School of San Francisco got tested for HIV in the school gym Friday.
Hundreds of actors and production crew have been filming in front of San Francisco's City Hall for a movie starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law.
Utility crews digging out an area near San Francisco's Candlestick Park have unearthed two 1880s-era schooners that had once been used to ferry goods throughout the Bay Area, long before bridges and highways existed here.
Barry Bonds will have to be arraigned and enter a plea next month for the third time since he was initially charged in 2007 with lying to a federal grand jury about his steroid use.
UPDATE: A woman who was found dead in a hotel room in San Francisco's Marina District on Thursday afternoon was identified Friday as Colleen Waterman, according to police.
A study by the University of Pacific Business Forecasting Center shows that non-farm payroll is expected to increase by 1.5 percent this year in San Jose.
The bill introduced by Assemblyman Jerry Hill would gut the law by prohibiting the use of state funds where the 50 percent mandate is used and banning its use on jobs outside the city limits.
Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, and other actors & extras in the upcoming star-studded film "Contagion," will close some San Francisco streets
The public outcry over those new and revealing full body scans at the nation's airports seems to have died down. But some scientists are voicing new concerns.
Twenty-three hotel workers were arrested at a sit-in protesting management at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Thursday night.
A major thoroughfare in San Francisco's Inner Richmond neighborhood was closed for hours early Thursday morning following a fatal crash in which a driver was arrested.
A woman was shot and injured in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood Thursday afternoon, according to authorities.
A San Carlos man pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter for the one-punch death of another man in a fight outside San Francisco's AT&T Park during a San Francisco Giants game in 2008, a prosecutor said.
San Francisco has much work to do before it is ready to host the America's Cup in 2013.
The next America's Cup will be sailed on San Francisco Bay in 72-foot, wing-sailed catamarans in 2013.
An alleged gang member with a criminal history was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of selling cocaine in Antioch, according to police.
A man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of robbing a bank in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood earlier this week.
The trash talk came from near and far Wednesday as the supervisors debated who should collect the city's garbage, and whether it should be shipped all the way to Yuba County.
San Francisco police will be trained in crisis intervention techniques to improve how officers interact with mentally ill suspects, the Police Commission said Wednesday.
The owner of a corner market in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood shot and critically wounded a customer Tuesday, apparently in a dispute about the customer bringing his Chihuahua into the store, police and witnesses said.
San Francisco resident Julia Erlandson thought she would lose more than $17 when she was robbed Monday night.
A cruise ship that was brought to San Francisco for repairs after catching fire during a voyage in November is in good shape and will depart for its next Mexican cruise on Friday, a port official said Wednesday.
