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A wildfire that began above a housing development in Gilroy has burned more than one hundred acres of brush and grass and sent a firefighter to the hospital, officials said Monday. The Ballybunion Fire began .
Labor Day Transit schedules and other services Monday. Banks and other financial institutions: Closed Post offices: Closed, no mail delivery. BART: Sunday schedule. Bus bridge inbetween 19th Street and .
It cooled off to a sensible one hundred five degrees in Pleasanton on Sunday, which made wearing a woolen kilt downright convenient, almost. Hundreds of studs were wearing them, and thousands more were staring at the .
San Francisco has taken a tentative step toward determining on whether it will become the very first local government in the country to run its voting machines on open-source software. The notion of shifting away .
Lumina’s sexy, slinky condos work to make Rincon Hill a neighborhood
If you have a fetish for voluptuous towers, Lumina may be just your style — two slick shafts with slew of forms, slinky and taut, in skin-tight wraps of cobalt blue. But this upscale sophisticated at the .
Blue-tag manhandle: Disabled-placard cheaters work the angles
Anyone who has searched for parking in San Francisco and noticed space after space taken by cars with blue disabled placards dangling from their rearview mirrors might wonder whether the city could .
Bay Area political events: Iran deal, coal film
Political events in the Bay Area Iran deal : Trita Parsi, a Middle East accomplished who advised the Obama White House during the .
Ease starts to arrive from record Bay Area fever wave
The Bay Area began to get some ease Sunday following two days of scorching fever that broke all-time records and sent residents scrambling for sanctuary. Temperatures still hit the triple digits in .
Emeryville police seek armed dudes who robbed a local Target store
Three masked guys robbed an Emeryville Target store at gunpoint shortly after midnight Saturday, police said. The guys entered a Target at one thousand five hundred fifty five 40th Street as the store was closing, according to Emeryville .
SF’s fresh weed boss is green to the business, but she’s got connections
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee often refers to his departments goes as being part of the “city family” — but sometimes the family ties can get a bit complicated. Take the case of Nicole Elliott, .
S.F.’s DA, public defender mend fences over questioning of immigrants
San Francisco’s policy scrums can get awfully heated, but those on opposing sides of the city’s utterly skinny political aisle can sometimes find agreement — especially if they’re unified against .
Fewer prison inmates signing up to fight California wildfires
Thomas Rohl adjusted the 30-pound pack strapped to his back and hopped into a nearby fire equipment. He was in a remote part of Solano County, on his way to help put out a grass fire smoldering a few miles to .
SF’s Golden Dragon massacre: forty years later, victims still have scars
The last thing Robert Yuen said to Calvin Fong was, “It’s going to be OK.” The two teenagers and their friend Donald Kwan lay among a mess of smashed dishes, ice water and hot soup on the floor of .
Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Bay Area: Where are they now?
The day Diane Evans escaped the Hurricane Katrina flood zone, she boarded an overcrowded evacuation bus at the edge of Interstate ten in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish, “praying it would go to Houston.” .
Russian diplomats shut down SF consulate in response to U.S. order
A Russian diplomatic official Saturday said that his staff fully intended to meet the U.S. State Department’s deadline to shutter the Russian Consulate building in San Francisco by the end of the day, .
Spirit of Polynesia comes to SF at Golden Gate Park celebration
The Abundas were just in Hawaii last month, but they desired a taste of the island again. So the family of four headed out to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Saturday, where they joined a host of .
Owners of S.F. ‘soft-story’ buildings slow to file for required retrofits
Time is running out for more than 1,100 San Francisco property owners who thus far have overlooked a deadline to bring their apartment buildings up to current seismic safety standards. With the Sept. Fifteen .
San Francisco hits one hundred six degrees — shatters all-time record
Friday’s scorching 106-degree warmth in San Francisco broke the all-time record dating to one thousand eight hundred seventy four for the greatest day in the usually foggy city by the bay. And that record may get cracked by Saturday’s .
Summer of Love poster child is found
The last runaway teenage dame from the legendary summer of one thousand nine hundred sixty seven — the Summer of Love — has been found. Her name is Jaki Katz and she is alive and well in Boise, Idaho. She was 16½ when she ran away .
Fires around California demolish homes, close roads, pack air with smoke
One of the worst wildfire seasons in latest California history was sending smoke into almost every corner of the state Friday, turning skies into a soupy, gray haze and triggering unhealthy-air warnings, .
Nip equality: Women could go braless in Berkeley under fresh proposal
A Berkeley law that makes public displays of the female breast illegal could be abolished this month if a city councilman gets his way. The nakedness ordinance as it stands makes it a misdemeanor or .
Bay Area political events: Iran deal, coal film
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Political events in the Bay Area Iran deal : Trita Parsi, a Middle East experienced who advised the Obama White House during the .
SF’s early German Jews quickly became an aristocracy
The last Portals described how a puny group of German Jews escaped the confinements and prejudices of their homeland to prosper in Gold Rush-era San Francisco. By 1870, a group of several dozen .
SF lodges for $8.25 million with Lake Merced gun club over contamination
The Pacific Rod and Gun Club will fork over $8.25 million to lodge a long court battle with the city of San Francisco over who should be responsible for cleaning up piles of lead shotgun pellets and .
100-acre wildfire searing in Gilroy
A wildfire that embarked above a housing development in Gilroy has burned more than one hundred acres of brush and grass and sent a firefighter to the hospital, officials said Monday. The Ballybunion Fire commenced .
Bay Area transit schedules for Labor Day
Labor Day Transit schedules and other services Monday. Banks and other financial institutions: Closed Post offices: Closed, no mail delivery. BART: Sunday schedule. Bus bridge inbetween 19th Street and .
Scorching warmth or not, Pleasanton’s annual Highland Games still go on
It cooled off to a sensible one hundred five degrees in Pleasanton on Sunday, which made wearing a woolen kilt downright comfy, almost. Hundreds of guys were wearing them, and thousands more were staring at the .
San Francisco could become very first local government to use open-source voting system
San Francisco has taken a tentative step toward determining on whether it will become the very first local government in the country to run its voting machines on open-source software. The notion of shifting away .
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Car slams into SF Tesla dealership on Van Ness Avenue Monday
A silver Mercedes crashed into a Tesla dealership on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco Monday afternoon, shattering windows at the facilities, officials said. City workers were called to the Tesla .
Cool, cloudy air and lower temperatures come back to the Bay Area
After a long weekend of record-breaking fever, Bay Area residents anticipated Tuesday’s comeback of a familiar summer companion: the marine layer. “Clouds will be back and a bit of patchy fog,” said .
Band music and a day in the park marks Labor Day for many
In San Francisco, a group of union members determined to feast Labor Day by, well, working. They were the 30-odd musicians with the Golden Gate Park Band who came out, as they do every Sunday and .
SF’s battle over flavored tobacco heats up
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday will reconsider the flavored-tobacco ban they passed unanimously in June. It is now facing a referendum petition to suspend it that has almost 34,000 certified .
Map shows which SF neighborhoods are hit hardest by air pollution
Black dust cakes the poplar trees in South Park, the San Francisco waterfront neighborhood at the western end of the Bay Bridge. The soot piles up on stairwells and speckles window blinds. It stains the .
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Bay Area political events: Iran deal, abortion rights
Political events in the Bay Area Iran deal : Trita Parsi, a Middle East experienced who advised the Obama White House during the .
100-acre wildfire searing in Gilroy
A wildfire that commenced above a housing development in Gilroy has burned more than one hundred acres of brush and grass and sent a firefighter to the hospital, officials said Monday. The Ballybunion Fire commenced .
Bay Area gets a touch of scattered rain from fading tropical storm
Fresh off a weekend warmth bender, Bay Area residents found some respite Monday underneath overcast skies and light, scattered showers. The passing rain, which fell around the region cities like San Bruno, .
Lumina’s sexy, slinky condos work to make Rincon Hill a neighborhood
If you have a fetish for voluptuous towers, Lumina may be just your style — two slick shafts with slew of kinks, slinky and taut, in skin-tight wraps of cobalt blue. But this upscale sophisticated at the .
Blue-tag manhandle: Disabled-placard cheaters work the angles
Anyone who has searched for parking in San Francisco and noticed space after space taken by cars with blue disabled placards dangling from their rearview mirrors might wonder whether the city could .
Bay Area transit schedules for Labor Day
Labor Day Transit schedules and other services Monday. Banks and other financial institutions: Closed Post offices: Closed, no mail delivery. BART: Sunday schedule. Bus bridge inbetween 19th Street and .
Scorching fever or not, Pleasanton’s annual Highland Games still go on
It cooled off to a sensible one hundred five degrees in Pleasanton on Sunday, which made wearing a woolen kilt downright convenient, almost. Hundreds of dudes were wearing them, and thousands more were staring at the .
San Francisco could become very first local government to use open-source voting system
San Francisco has taken a tentative step toward determining on whether it will become the very first local government in the country to run its voting machines on open-source software. The notion of shifting away .
Bay Area political events: Iran deal, coal film
Political events in the Bay Area Iran deal : Trita Parsi, a Middle East experienced who advised the Obama White House during the .
Ease starts to arrive from record Bay Area fever wave
The Bay Area began to get some ease Sunday following two days of scorching warmth that broke all-time records and sent residents scrambling for sanctuary. Temperatures still hit the triple digits in .
SF’s fresh weed boss is green to the business, but she’s got connections
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee often refers to his departments goes as being part of the “city family” — but sometimes the family ties can get a bit complicated. Take the case of Nicole Elliott, .
That fence around Alamo Square cost $Ten,000, and SF says it was worth it
San Francisco spent harshly $Ten,000 for the fence that was hastily erected around Alamo Square Park the morning the conservative group Patriot Prayer said it would hold a news conference there. Officials .
DA’s watchdog for SFPD is chased out of town
Just months after being hired by District Attorney George Gascón to investigate officer-involved shootings, Roger Guzman has resigned amid accusations of off-duty misconduct. The retired Los Angeles .
Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Bay Area: Where are they now?
The day Diane Evans escaped the Hurricane Katrina flood zone, she boarded an overcrowded evacuation bus at the edge of Interstate ten in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish, “praying it would go to Houston.” .
Castro Valley man accused of killing Sacramento deputy in shootout dies
The Castro Valley man accused of killing a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy and wounding two California Highway Patrol officers died Saturday, giving way to the injuries he suffered during a shootout .
Bay Area sizzles again Saturday, with numerous warmth records falling
San Francisco’s record-shattering warmth wave continued into Saturday, with a 102-degree afternoon that was the best Sept. Two ever seen in the city. The city broke the record for the day at 1:43 p.m. .
Emeryville police seek armed fellows who robbed a local Target store
Three masked boys robbed an Emeryville Target store at gunpoint shortly after midnight Saturday, police said. The studs entered a Target at one thousand five hundred fifty five 40th Street as the store was closing, according to Emeryville .
Russian diplomats shut down SF consulate in response to U.S. order
A Russian diplomatic official Saturday said that his staff fully intended to meet the U.S. State Department’s deadline to shutter the Russian Consulate building in San Francisco by the end of the day, .
Spirit of Polynesia comes to SF at Golden Gate Park celebration
The Abundas were just in Hawaii last month, but they dreamed a taste of the island again. So the family of four headed out to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Saturday, where they joined a host of .
Owners of S.F. ‘soft-story’ buildings slow to file for required retrofits
Time is running out for more than 1,100 San Francisco property owners who thus far have overlooked a deadline to bring their apartment buildings up to current seismic safety standards. With the Sept. Fifteen .
Cool, cloudy air and lower temperatures comeback to the Bay Area
After a long weekend of record-breaking warmth, Bay Area residents anticipated Tuesday’s come back of a familiar summer companion: the marine layer. “Clouds will be back and a bit of patchy fog,” said .
Band music and a day in the park marks Labor Day for many
In San Francisco, a group of union members determined to feast Labor Day by, well, working. They were the 30-odd musicians with the Golden Gate Park Band who came out, as they do every Sunday and .
SF’s battle over flavored tobacco heats up
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday will reconsider the flavored-tobacco ban they passed unanimously in June. It is now facing a referendum petition to suspend it that has almost 34,000 certified .
Map shows which SF neighborhoods are hit hardest by air pollution
Black dust cakes the poplar trees in South Park, the San Francisco waterfront neighborhood at the western end of the Bay Bridge. The soot piles up on stairwells and speckles window blinds. It stains the .
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Bay Area
Trump ending DACA immigration program; Opponents insert ‘heartless’ budge on Dreamers
President Trump’s decision to phase out protections for about 800,000 immigrants who entered the U.S. as children fulfilled a campaign promise while prompting alarm from the youthful people often called .
San Jose ordered to pay $11.Three million to mentally ill man shot by cop
San Jose must pay $11.Three million to a mentally disturbed man who was shot in the back by a police officer while standing on his front lawn holding a knife, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Suspended Lam, .
Officials missed big picture before Oroville Dam spillway failed, experts say
The most detailed report yet on what went wrong at Oroville Dam last winter when 180,000 people fled amid fears of flooding found that state and federal officials failed to uncover long-standing .
Prosecutors say Alameda County deputy gasped inmate unconscious
One of four Alameda County sheriff’s deputies charged with felonies in an inmate manhandle case gasped a prisoner unconscious, prosecutors said Tuesday. A criminal complaint filed against the deputies .
S.F. State tests benefits of workouts in virtual reality games
You come in the boxing ring and face your opponent. He glares at you, his bulbous pecs shining under the arena lights. Pow! You screw him with a right hook to the jaw. He cross punches. You duck. You .
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Bay Area political events: abortion rights, town hall
Political events in the Bay Area Coal film: Screening of the film “From the Ashes,” a look at the coal industry and its .
Man shot dead near West Oakland homeless camp
A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning near a homeless encampment in West Oakland, police said. Police called to Northgate Avenue and Sycamore Street about Four:Ten a.m. found the victim suffering from at .
Driver killed in Redwood City after crashing through fence into path of Caltrain
A 29-year-old man crashed his car through a fence early Tuesday in Redwood City and came to rest on Caltrain tracks, where a train instantly struck and killed him, transit agency officials said. The .
Taxi drivers to get payouts as plans for accumulated fund are dropped
San Francisco’s taxi drivers, who have seen their earnings plummet in latest years as Uber and Lyft have taken off, will get petite windfalls and have their annual registration fees paid for two years .
Hundreds in Bay Area protest Trump’s decision on DACA
By Kurtis Alexander, Alison Graham and Steve Rubenstein
About 1,000 demonstrators streamed into the plaza outside the Federal Building in San Francisco’s South of Market district Tuesday evening to protest President Trump’s decision to phase out an .
SF supes uphold flavored tobacco ban as it’s cleared for ballot
In a cutting speech Tuesday, Supervisor Malia Cohen urged her colleagues to stand behind the flavored tobacco ban they passed unanimously in June and not be swayed by a petition sponsored by R.J. Reynolds .
Car slams into SF Tesla dealership on Van Ness Avenue Monday
A silver Mercedes crashed into a Tesla dealership on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco Monday afternoon, shattering windows at the facilities, officials said. City workers were called to the Tesla building .
California leaders react to DACA phase-out: ‘Despicable brunt on harmless youthful people’
The response to President Trump’s decision to phase out the DACA program, which protects immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, was swift in San Francisco and across California, with many elected .
Police: San Francisco man arrested with hundreds of files of child porn
A 25-year-old San Francisco man who works as a driver for ride-hailing services was arrested for possessing “hundreds of child pornography movies and pictures,” police said Tuesday. Esam Abualshaar was .
Cool, cloudy air and lower temperatures comeback to the Bay Area
After a long weekend of record-breaking warmth, Bay Area residents anticipated Tuesday’s comeback of a familiar summer companion: the marine layer. “Clouds will be back and a bit of patchy fog,” said .
Why eye-popping whale shows off the California coast are the fresh normal
Humpbacks have put on a demonstrate this summer inwards and outside the Golden Gate — flopping around, swinging their flukes and leaping out of the water — a bonanza for whale watchers in tour boats and on dry .
Map shows which SF neighborhoods are hit hardest by air pollution
Black dust cakes the poplar trees in South Park, the San Francisco waterfront neighborhood at the western end of the Bay Bridge. The soot piles up on stairwells and speckles window blinds. It stains the .
Band music and a day in the park marks Labor Day for many
In San Francisco, a group of union members determined to feast Labor Day by, well, working. They were the 30-odd musicians with the Golden Gate Park Band who came out, as they do every Sunday and .
Bay Area gets a touch of scattered rain from fading tropical storm
Fresh off a weekend warmth bender, Bay Area residents found some respite Monday underneath overcast skies and light, scattered showers. The passing rain, which fell around the region cities like San Bruno, .
SF’s battle over flavored tobacco heats up
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday will reconsider the flavored-tobacco ban they passed unanimously in June. It is now facing a referendum petition to suspend it that has almost 34,000 certified .
100-acre wildfire searing in Gilroy
A wildfire that commenced above a housing development in Gilroy has burned more than one hundred acres of brush and grass and sent a firefighter to the hospital, officials said Monday. The Ballybunion Fire commenced .
Lumina’s sexy, slinky condos work to make Rincon Hill a neighborhood
If you have a fetish for voluptuous towers, Lumina may be just your style — two sleek shafts with slew of kinks, slinky and taut, in skin-tight wraps of cobalt blue. But this upscale elaborate at the .
Ease starts to arrive from record Bay Area warmth wave
The Bay Area commenced to get some ease Sunday following two days of scorching warmth that broke all-time records and sent residents scrambling for sanctuary. Temperatures still hit the triple digits in .
Blue-tag manhandle: Disabled-placard cheaters work the angles
Anyone who has searched for parking in San Francisco and noticed space after space taken by cars with blue disabled placards dangling from their rearview mirrors might wonder whether the city could .
San Francisco could become very first local government to use open-source voting system
San Francisco has taken a tentative step toward determining on whether it will become the very first local government in the country to run its voting machines on open-source software. The notion of shifting away .
San Jose ordered to pay $11.Three million to mentally ill man shot by cop
San Jose must pay $11.Three million to a mentally disturbed man who was shot in the back by a police officer while standing on his front lawn holding a knife, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Dangled Lam, .
Officials missed big picture before Oroville Dam spillway failed, experts say
The most detailed report yet on what went wrong at Oroville Dam last winter when 180,000 people fled amid fears of flooding found that state and federal officials failed to uncover long-standing .
Prosecutors say Alameda County deputy gasped inmate unconscious
One of four Alameda County sheriff’s deputies charged with felonies in an inmate manhandle case gasped a prisoner unconscious, prosecutors said Tuesday. A criminal complaint filed against the deputies .
S.F. State tests benefits of workouts in virtual reality games
You come in the boxing ring and face your opponent. He glares at you, his bulbous pecs shining under the arena lights. Pow! You pound him with a right hook to the jaw. He cross punches. You duck. You .
San Francisco Bay Area news – San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area
Trump ending DACA immigration program; Opponents jam ‘heartless’ budge on Dreamers
President Trump’s decision to phase out protections for about 800,000 immigrants who entered the U.S. as children fulfilled a campaign promise while prompting alarm from the youthfull people often called .
San Jose ordered to pay $11.Three million to mentally ill man shot by cop
San Jose must pay $11.Three million to a mentally disturbed man who was shot in the back by a police officer while standing on his front lawn holding a knife, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Draped Lam, .
Officials missed big picture before Oroville Dam spillway failed, experts say
The most detailed report yet on what went wrong at Oroville Dam last winter when 180,000 people fled amid fears of flooding found that state and federal officials failed to uncover long-standing .
Prosecutors say Alameda County deputy gasped inmate unconscious
One of four Alameda County sheriff’s deputies charged with felonies in an inmate manhandle case gasped a prisoner unconscious, prosecutors said Tuesday. A criminal complaint filed against the deputies .
S.F. State tests benefits of workouts in virtual reality games
You come in the boxing ring and face your opponent. He glares at you, his bulbous pecs shiny under the arena lights. Pow! You plumb him with a right hook to the jaw. He cross punches. You duck. You .
Previous stories
Bay Area political events: abortion rights, town hall
Political events in the Bay Area Coal film: Screening of the film “From the Ashes,” a look at the coal industry and its .
Man shot dead near West Oakland homeless camp
A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning near a homeless encampment in West Oakland, police said. Police called to Northgate Avenue and Sycamore Street about Four:Ten a.m. found the victim suffering from at .
Driver killed in Redwood City after crashing through fence into path of Caltrain
A 29-year-old man crashed his car through a fence early Tuesday in Redwood City and came to rest on Caltrain tracks, where a train instantly struck and killed him, transit agency officials said. The .
Taxi drivers to get payouts as plans for accumulated fund are dropped
San Francisco’s taxi drivers, who have seen their earnings plummet in latest years as Uber and Lyft have taken off, will get puny windfalls and have their annual registration fees paid for two years .
Hundreds in Bay Area protest Trump’s decision on DACA
By Kurtis Alexander, Alison Graham and Steve Rubenstein
About 1,000 demonstrators streamed into the plaza outside the Federal Building in San Francisco’s South of Market district Tuesday evening to protest President Trump’s decision to phase out an .
SF supes uphold flavored tobacco ban as it’s cleared for ballot
In a cutting speech Tuesday, Supervisor Malia Cohen urged her colleagues to stand behind the flavored tobacco ban they passed unanimously in June and not be swayed by a petition sponsored by R.J. Reynolds .
Car slams into SF Tesla dealership on Van Ness Avenue Monday
A silver Mercedes crashed into a Tesla dealership on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco Monday afternoon, shattering windows at the facilities, officials said. City workers were called to the Tesla building .
California leaders react to DACA phase-out: ‘Despicable onslaught on guiltless youthful people’
The response to President Trump’s decision to phase out the DACA program, which protects immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, was swift in San Francisco and across California, with many elected .
Police: San Francisco man arrested with hundreds of files of child porn
A 25-year-old San Francisco man who works as a driver for ride-hailing services was arrested for possessing “hundreds of child pornography movies and pictures,” police said Tuesday. Esam Abualshaar was .
Cool, cloudy air and lower temperatures come back to the Bay Area
After a long weekend of record-breaking fever, Bay Area residents anticipated Tuesday’s come back of a familiar summer companion: the marine layer. “Clouds will be back and a bit of patchy fog,” said .
Why eye-popping whale shows off the California coast are the fresh normal
Humpbacks have put on a display this summer inwards and outside the Golden Gate — flopping around, swinging their flukes and leaping out of the water — a bonanza for whale watchers in tour boats and on dry .
Map shows which SF neighborhoods are hit hardest by air pollution
Black dust cakes the poplar trees in South Park, the San Francisco waterfront neighborhood at the western end of the Bay Bridge. The soot piles up on stairwells and speckles window blinds. It stains the .
Band music and a day in the park marks Labor Day for many
In San Francisco, a group of union members determined to feast Labor Day by, well, working. They were the 30-odd musicians with the Golden Gate Park Band who came out, as they do every Sunday and .
Bay Area gets a touch of scattered rain from fading tropical storm
Fresh off a weekend warmth bender, Bay Area residents found some respite Monday underneath overcast skies and light, scattered showers. The passing rain, which fell around the region cities like San Bruno, .
SF’s battle over flavored tobacco heats up
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday will reconsider the flavored-tobacco ban they passed unanimously in June. It is now facing a referendum petition to suspend it that has almost 34,000 certified .
100-acre wildfire searing in Gilroy
A wildfire that embarked above a housing development in Gilroy has burned more than one hundred acres of brush and grass and sent a firefighter to the hospital, officials said Monday. The Ballybunion Fire embarked .
Lumina’s sexy, slinky condos work to make Rincon Hill a neighborhood
If you have a fetish for voluptuous towers, Lumina may be just your style — two slick shafts with slew of forms, slinky and taut, in skin-tight wraps of cobalt blue. But this upscale sophisticated at the .
Ease embarks to arrive from record Bay Area fever wave
The Bay Area embarked to get some ease Sunday following two days of scorching warmth that broke all-time records and sent residents scrambling for sanctuary. Temperatures still hit the triple digits in .
Blue-tag manhandle: Disabled-placard cheaters work the angles
Anyone who has searched for parking in San Francisco and noticed space after space taken by cars with blue disabled placards dangling from their rearview mirrors might wonder whether the city could .
San Francisco could become very first local government to use open-source voting system
San Francisco has taken a tentative step toward determining on whether it will become the very first local government in the country to run its voting machines on open-source software. The notion of shifting away .
San Jose ordered to pay $11.Trio million to mentally ill man shot by cop
San Jose must pay $11.Trio million to a mentally disturbed man who was shot in the back by a police officer while standing on his front lawn holding a knife, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Strung up Lam, .
Officials missed big picture before Oroville Dam spillway failed, experts say
The most detailed report yet on what went wrong at Oroville Dam last winter when 180,000 people fled amid fears of flooding found that state and federal officials failed to uncover long-standing .
Prosecutors say Alameda County deputy gasped inmate unconscious
One of four Alameda County sheriff’s deputies charged with felonies in an inmate manhandle case gasped a prisoner unconscious, prosecutors said Tuesday. A criminal complaint filed against the deputies .
S.F. State tests benefits of workouts in virtual reality games
You inject the boxing ring and face your opponent. He glares at you, his bulbous pecs shiny under the arena lights. Pow! You smash him with a right hook to the jaw. He cross punches. You duck. You .