Bay Bridge House takes final design to meetings to gain project support
by Jessica Kwong In the shadows of the demolition of the Bay Bridge’s old eastern span, David Grieshaber has been working to get various officials behind his vision to construct a building out of...
View ArticleGoogle expands ferry service trial with East Bay service
by Bay City News Last month, Google started a similar trial ferrying its employees between San Francisco and Redwood City. That five-week trial also ends this Friday.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
View ArticleTwo injured in early-morning stabbings in SF
by Bay City News Two people were stabbed near San Francisco's Embarcadero early Monday morning, San Francisco police said. Officers responded to the incident at The Embarcadero between Piers 5 and 7...
View ArticleGoogle barge must move from island construction site in San Francisco Bay,...
by The Associated Press Google must move a mystery barge from a construction site on an island in the middle of San Francisco Bay because the permits are not in order, a state official said Monday....
View ArticleSF state legislator proposes California minimum wage hike
California workers earning the minimum wage could see pay increases starting in 2015, under legislation announced Monday. Introduced by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, the move follows...
View ArticleWarriors push back proposed arena's opening date
by Bay City News The Golden State Warriors' plans to build an arena on the San Francisco waterfront by 2017 are being pushed back by at least a year, project organizers said today. At the same time,...
View ArticleLow-income San Mateo County youth to receive free dental care on ‘Smile Day’
by S. Parker Yesko Dentists across San Mateo County will offer free services to children from low-income families as part of Give Kids a Smile Day on Friday. For 10 years running, the San Mateo County...
View ArticleSF city attorney alleges lax privacy opens door for sexual predators on MeetMe
by Jessica Kwong The City Attorney’s Office is for the first time pursuing legal action against a meet-up and location-based social-network website and app. In a complaint filed Monday, City Attorney...
View ArticlePresido Trust rejects all three museum proposals, including Lucas Cultural...
by Jonah Owen Lamb The Presidio Trust on Monday announced that it rejected all three proposals for the former commissary site near Crissy Field. The team behind the most prominent of those proposals,...
View ArticleMidtown Park tenants ask Rent Board to explore rent control coverage
by Joshua Sabatini Amid city plans to increase rents at the 139-unit Midtown Park Apartments complex in the Western Addition, tenants fought back Monday by asking the San Francisco Rent Board to...
View ArticleVoter signatures to qualify waterfront height measure on ballot await...
by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco voters could soon become the official guardians of the allowable height limits for The City’s prized waterfront property. It appears more than enough signatures to...
View ArticleSFMTA board to address plan to end pedestrian, cyclist deaths in SF
At an annual budget workshop today, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board members will, among other issues, consider adopting a Vision Zero policy aimed at eliminating pedestrian and...
View ArticleUCSF to study marijuana-based drug for children
by Chris Roberts Children as young as a year old are receiving a marijuana-derived drug at UC San Francisco, where over the next year researchers will conduct the world’s first study of the banned...
View ArticleCanepa joins mayors group targeting gun violence
by Brendan P. Bartholomew Gun violence is rare in Daly City and Mayor David Canepa wants to keep it that way. Backed with unanimous approval from the City Council, he has joined Mayors Against Illegal...
View ArticleSunset district residents point out safety concerns at intersection where...
by Bay City News A 78-year-old San Francisco man was struck and killed by a car as he crossed a busy thoroughfare in San Francisco's Sunset District this morning, and neighbors said afterward that the...
View ArticleSF firefighters battling blaze in Presidio Heights neighborhood
by Bay City News Firefighters are at the scene of a two-alarm residential fire in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. The fire is burning in the 300 block of Walnut...
View ArticlePolice: Slain Napa 3-year-old's body stored in freezer
by The Associated Press Authorities in Northern California said Tuesday that a woman and her boyfriend charged with killing her 3-year-old daughter stored the girl's body in a suitcase and inside a...
View ArticleScott Wiener secures $9M for streetlight upgrades
Supervisor Scott Wiener on Tuesday announced a deal that will add funding for streetlight repairs in San Francisco without amending an upcoming bond measure related to earthquake safety. [jump] Last...
View ArticleSF man indicted on charges related to Silk Road website
by The Associated Press A San Francisco man was indicted Tuesday on charges he was the mastermind behind a secret website that brokered more than $1 billion in transactions for illegal drugs and...
View ArticleSupervisors committee takes on enforcement of building codes
by Bay City News San Francisco’s policies for enforcing city building codes was the topic of a City Hall hearing Monday, where members of a Board of Supervisors committee questioned what they called a...
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