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North Korea deports Palo Alto man
by The Associated Press North Korea says it has deported an elderly U.S. tourist and war veteran detained for more than a month for alleged hostile acts against the country. The North's state media...
View ArticleSF man arrested in connection with Market Street shooting
by Bay City News A San Francisco man has been arrested in connection with a Mid-Market shooting that sent one person to the hospital earlier this week, police said Friday. Keron Lamotte, 19, was...
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SF homes poised to put soil back in front yards to help ease runoff woes
by Jonah Owen Lamb The front yard, if you can call it that, of Jerry Lindner’s yellow stucco Sunset district home looks more like a driveway, or a sidewalk, than anything that might ever sprout a...
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Bayview center pioneers approach to crime prevention by fighting stress in...
by Mike Aldax Police in the Bayview district are getting crime-fighting help from an unlikely source: A pediatrician. Founded by innovative pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the Center for Youth...
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SFMTA issues $75 million bond for infrastructure needs
by Jessica Kwong Last month, Mayor Ed Lee’s 2030 Transportation Task Force recommended a $10.1 billion investment into The City’s transit system over the next 15 years. The San Francisco Municipal...
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Why I signed a contract with Russian television
by Joel P. Engardio While Cher and Elton John debated the best way to protest Russia’s anti-gay laws (she wouldn’t sing there and he was willing), my stand for LGBT equality in Russia was limited to...
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Tech startups show little imagination on board gender diversity
by Reuters At Pinterest, the 4-year-old online bulletin board service that is valued near $3.8 billion, some 70 percent of the users are female. But the company's board of directors is 100 percent...
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US vet Merrill Newman, 85, home from North Korea
by The Associated Press A tired but smiling 85-year-old U.S. veteran detained in North Korea for several weeks has returned home to applause from supporters, yellow ribbons tied to pillars outside his...
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BART trains up to 20 minutes behind schedule due to equipment problem
by Bay City News An equipment problem on BART tracks is delaying trains by up to 20 minutes this afternoon, a dispatcher said. The delay was caused by a switching malfunction on the tracks between...
View ArticleNew Gas Control Center opens to help PG&E monitor pipelines
by Jonah Owen Lamb PG&E announced Friday the opening of its new Gas Control Center, which will aid the utility company in its efforts to increase the safety of its gas pipelines in the wake of a...
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Mountain lion seen along Cabrillo Highway in Half Moon Bay
by Bay City News A mountain lion was spotted in a Half Moon Bay neighborhood early Sunday morning, according to the San Mateo County Office of Emergency Services. The animal was seen in the vicinity...
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SF Main Library implementing new strategies to curb unsavory behavior
by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco is hoping to start a new chapter in the Main Library’s troubled story as it ramps up investment in custodian and security personnel following a string of complaints...
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When LGBT role models get exposed
by Oscar Raymundo Earlier this month we found out that Dustin Lance Black, the 39-year-old Oscar-winning writer of Milk, was dating a 19-year-old diver from Plymouth, England. Literally overnight, it...
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SFMTA proposes incentives for taxis picking up wheelchair users
by Jessica Kwong Among the struggles The City’s taxi industry faces, transit officials say, is a troubling, below-expectations pickup rate for wheelchair customers, a population some of the vehicles...
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PG&E worker injured during Potrero Hill outage
by Bay City News A utility worker was injured while responding to an outage in San Francisco on Sunday morning, a PG&E spokesman said. The outage, which affected approximately 575 customers in the...
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No new parking meter locations allowed in SF under $51 million purchase
by Chris Roberts San Francisco plans to spend $51 million to buy up to 30,000 new parking meters, but on one condition: no meter installations allowed at new locations. All parking meters in The City...
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Peninsula conference focuses on sea level rise
by Brendan P. Bartholomew Information gathered from a series of statewide hearings on rising sea levels and their impact on California’s economy will be presented at a conference in San Mateo this...
View Article2-alarm blaze rages overnight at garbage site
by Bay City News A fire at a San Francisco recycling warehouse was extinguished after burning for more than nine hours overnight from Monday to Tuesday. The two-alarm fire was reported by a building...
View ArticleMenlo Park girl hit in drive-by shooting
by Bay City News Police in Menlo Park are searching for suspects in a drive-by shooting that injured a teenage girl in her home Sunday night. The shooting was reported in the 1300 block of Madera...
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Some SF supervisors push for inmate phone call rates to change
by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco inmates face costly phone calls from behind bars that also help fund jail programs, but some city supervisors want those fees to change. While the Board of Supervisors...
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