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San Mateo County asks citizens to redraw its district lines
by Rachel Swan After an embarrassing lawsuit forced San Mateo County to acknowledge that its supervisorial district boundaries might dilute the voting power of Asians and Latinos, officials redoubled...
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San Francisco real estate market booming with healthy tech industry
by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco's tech industry rush has translated into a golden commercial real estate industry with high office rents and big sale prices, but now there are concerns about where...
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San Francisco Schools get waiver from No Child Left Behind
by Andrea Koskey Eight California school districts including San Francisco have been granted unprecedented waivers to stray from the proficiency standards set by No Child Left Behind and instead...
View ArticleJuvenile escapee turns himself in to authorities
by Bay City News A 16-year-old boy who walked away from a juvenile detention facility in La Honda on Sunday evening has turned himself in, a juvenile probation officer said Tuesday. The boy left the...
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Suspect part of San Bruno crackdown pleads innocent in prostitution case
by Bay City News A 35-year-old man arrested last month in San Bruno as part of a nationwide crackdown on human trafficking has pleaded not guilty to pimping, according to the San Mateo County District...
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Protesters call for boycott of Russian vodka after anti-gay law enacted
by Bay City News A handful of protesters in San Francisco today called for a boycott of Russian-made vodka after that country's lawmakers recently enacted what critics are calling anti-gay...
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Jazz keyboardist George Duke dies at 67
by Staff Report George Duke, the Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer who got his start at an old San Francisco jazz club, has died. He was 67.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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San Francisco 'fountain lady' sculptor Ruth Asawa dies at 87
by Janos Gereben Ruth Asawa, who died Monday at age 87, was a distinguished San Francisco artist, nationally known sculptor and humanitarian who overcame great personal hardship to serve the community...
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Crime victims can hear it through the jail-VINE
by Mike Aldax The victims of crimes in San Francisco can now receive email notifications about offenders' custody status in California jails and prisons as part of a newly available service. On...
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Man visiting Bay Area to sell vintage Rolex is robbed
by Mike Aldax A Washington state man who flew to the Bay Area to sell a high-end watch was assaulted and robbed Tuesday night inside a vehicle near the Alemany Farmers' Market site in Bernal Heights,...
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Woman injured in Western Addition drive-by shooting
by Mike Aldax A 25-year-old woman was wounded in a drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood. About 1:30 p.m., police received calls that several shots had...
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Rising sea levels threaten California's water supply
by Brendan P. Bartholomew Without a coordinated response from public agencies and the private sector, California's economy will be significantly impacted by the rising sea levels that stem from global...
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Amber Alert cellphone notification from Southern California jolts Bay Area
by Wire Report Some Bay Area residents were jolted awake Monday night when they received unexpected Amber Alerts about two siblings who were reported missing out of San Diego County. Just before 11...
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San Francisco schools expanding outdoor classroom program
by Andrea Koskey Thousands of students in 22 San Francisco elementary schools will return to class this fall with a new piece of curriculum: outdoor education. The San Francisco Unified School...
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San Francisco is target city in federal effort to improve pedestrian safety
by Andrea Koskey San Francisco stands to benefit from a campaign launched this week by the U.S. Department of Transportation to reduce risks to pedestrians. "Everybody is a Pedestrian" was created to...
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San Francisco holding Mission district gun buyback event
by Bay City News City officials are holding a gun buyback event in the Mission district tonight to try to reduce the potential for violence in the neighborhood. Supervisor David Campos, who represents...
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BART and its unions can't even agree on math
by Chris Roberts OAKLAND — Labor leaders say BART and its biggest unions could soon agree on a new contract and avoid a second strike, but one observer called that assessment "optimistic" Wednesday...
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San Francisco finds funding to extend drug-disposal program
by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco will continue to operate a medicine-disposal program for at least another year after negotiating a $125,000 donation from a leading drug manufacturing group to pay for...
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Achievement test scores flatten out at San Francisco Unified
by Andrea Koskey More San Francisco students are proficient in math, but standardized test scores in English dipped slightly, leveling out the gains in student progress made in the 11 years since...
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Downtown San Francisco office rents climbed 23 percent in 2012
by Chris Roberts The hard times of the Great Recession are an ever-fading memory in San Francisco's downtown, where a broad economic recovery is fueling sharp commercial rent increases and decreasing...
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