Expect BART delays for evening commute
by Bay City News BART officials are reporting delays of 10 to 15 minutes for trains headed toward San Francisco and Daly City due to police action at the West Oakland station. The police action...
View ArticleSan Francisco families plan vigil for missing men
by Bay City News Five families whose young adult sons have gone missing in San Francisco over the past few years are holding a joint vigil in Golden Gate Park this weekend to call attention to the...
View ArticleSF-based credit union expands to San Mateo County
by Emilie Mutert The San Francisco Federal Credit Union, a not-for-profit financial institution, recently announced that it is expanding its community charter to San Mateo County, opening a branch in...
View ArticleContest to design home out of Bay Bridge pieces launched
by Bay City News A Brisbane man hoping to build self-sustaining structures out of scraps from the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge says he plans to hold a competition for architecture students who...
View ArticleNonprofit group aims to crowd source funds for San Mateo County parks
by Max A. Cherney The San Mateo County Parks Foundation is launching a pilot crowd funding program to raise cash to chip away at $115 million of unfunded capital improvements. The Foundation — a...
View ArticleSmooth sailing so far on Bay Bridge's new bike and pedestrian path
by Jessica Kwong The going has been good for the Bay Bridge's almost two-week-old bicycle and pedestrian path on the new eastern span. Since its ribbon-cutting the morning after Labor Day, the path...
View ArticleMexican Museum brings on Mexican architect to design interior of San...
by Chloe Johnson The Mexican Museum is bringing on a Mexican architect as the institution begins planning for its controversial and long-in-the-works permanent home, which it hopes to open in 2018....
View ArticleSan Francisco property tax take to exceed $2 billion for first time
by Joshua Sabatini The property tax bill for the owner of a median-priced San Francisco home is expected to increase by $305.83 a year, according to a San Francisco budget analyst’s report. The total...
View ArticleCry for help unheeded at CCSF
by Andrea Koskey Three days after receiving word that City College of San Francisco would receive the most severe sanction issued by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges,...
View ArticleSan Francisco Latino Film Festival shines a light on LGBT themes
by Oscar Raymundo Cine+Mas, the presenting organization of the San Francisco Latino Film Festival, kicked off another year of features, documentaries and shorts by Latino filmmakers from all over the...
View ArticleBody pulled from water at pier 30-32
by Bay City News A body was pulled from the water this morning near San Francisco's Pier 30, a fire official said. A call came in about a body in the water around 8:10 a.m. at the pier that juts into...
View ArticleDeveloper hopes to evade San Carlos affordable housing rules
by Max A. Cherney A request to waive an affordable-housing requirement for the Transit Village project in San Carlos has sparked a debate over the viability of such policies. A city ordinance would...
View ArticleHuman foot found on Ocean Beach
by Bay City News A dismembered foot still in a shoe washed ashore at San Francisco's Ocean Beach Saturday morning, a National Park Service spokeswoman said. The foot was found around 11 a.m. near...
View ArticleAmmiano's latest effort for statewide medical marijuana regulations fails
by Chris Roberts Medical marijuana businesses obeying California law will continue to face U.S. Justice Department pressure after a last-minute effort to regulate the cannabis industry at the state...
View ArticleAmerica's Cup fan base full of Kiwis
by Jessica Kwong With the America's Cup's days numbered, the controversial sailing competition could very well have reached its spectator climax over the weekend as tens of thousands of locals and...
View ArticleOpposing sides dig in on fight over immigration holds in San Francisco
by Joshua Sabatini The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association sent a letter Friday to Board of Supervisors members opposing a move to prohibit law enforcement from detaining undocumented...
View ArticleThe trickle-down technology of the America's Cup
by Reuters Oracle Corp. software titan Larry Ellison's decision to race the 34th America's Cup on high-speed 72-foot catamarans, which are harder to build and sail than keelboats, has been criticized...
View ArticleSex offender arrested in Mountain View incident a suspect in San Mateo attack
by Rob Nagle A registered sex offender whom Mountain View police arrested earlier this month for allegedly behaving lewdly toward two young children at a Wal-Mart is also a suspect in a San Mateo...
View ArticleDaly City to help offer sewer repair insurance
by Brendan P. Bartholomew Daly City is about to become one of the first cities in California to offer homeowners a warranty to protect against costly sewer repairs. Homeowners in the city are required...
View ArticleSan Francisco branch of Wells Fargo might have been robbed twice by same suspect
by Mike Aldax Police believe a bandit robbed the same downtown San Francisco bank twice earlier this month. The most recent heist at the Wells Fargo branch at Mission and Spear streets occurred about...
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