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The fire was reported at 4:42 p.m. at a building in the first block of Dolores Street near 14th Street.

Students who suggest worthwhile improvements to San Francisco's laws now have a chance to win a $1,000 scholarship and may see their ideas introduced to the city's Board of Supervisors.

Another week, another map showing broad generalizations about who in what part of America likes what kind of music.

In this image provided by Jen Siska, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, is seen posing for a portrait in San Francisco in July 2007.

A woman suspected of shooting and killing a teenage boy near a Richmond apartment complex last week is in jail after turning herself in to San Francisco police on Monday, a police spokeswoman said today.

Every market bodes a different credit risk, and a new product from Collateral Analytics shows just how different each area can be.

Parklets began appearing in former San Francisco parking spaces back in 2011, and since then more than 40 have appeared all over the city from Bayview to North Beach .

A pedestrian hit by a car in San Francisco's Cathedral Hill neighborhood was cited for jaywalking after being taken to the hospital on Sunday afternoon, police said today.

Celebrate Spring and Easter with special menus at San Francisco restaurants. There is so much to choose between with neighborhood favorites as well as elegant hotel dining.

A Las Vegas big rig driver pleaded not guilty Monday to holding hostage and strangling a Berkeley hitchhiker when she refused to have sex with him, prosecutors said.

It's been tough times for the Arnold-Klein family, but in a new episode of TLC's "The Little Couple," the family has some fun as they take a vacation to San Francisco following Jen's final chemo treatment.

It was June, and the Seattle Seahawks were seeing a handful of their players suspended over performance-enhancing drug use.

The Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley. This was simply the result of bad planning and layers of leadership failure — nobody thinks farms literally needed to be destroyed to create the technology industry’s success.

Cementing protection for one of the largest privately owned pieces of land on California's 1,100-mile coastline, a San Francisco environmental group on Monday donated to the public the Coast Dairies property -- a pastoral expanse of rolling meadows, redwood forests and panoramic ocean views north of Santa Cruz.

Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say service is returning to normal after a passenger was rescued alive from underneath a train in San Francisco.

A pilot project to fund healthy fruit and vegetable vouchers for food insecure San Franciscans was proposed at the Board of Supervisors Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee hearing last Thursday.

A San Francisco man was tied up and robbed last week by a man he had invited to his Bernal Heights apartment for sex, police said Monday.

The FBI wants San Francisco city leaders to talk with the agency as part of an ongoing investigation targeting political corruption and an alleged organized crime syndicate in Chinatown.

Lexi Barry arranges chocolate truffles on a plate at Charles Chocolates factory and cafe in the Mission Creek neighborhood of San Francisco.