San Francisco News

Under intense pressure from the state's media organizations and government watchdogs, California's legislative leaders on Wednesday backed down from proposed changes to a key transparency law that would have restricted the public's access to government records.

Sometimes one's inner dialogue unexpectedly becomes visualized by images on city streets and sidewalks.

For the first time anywhere, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has put on public display the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus - an octopus so rare it doesn't yet have a scientific name.

We know that the phrase "The San Francisco Treat" has already been claimed, but we just can't stress enough that it's being incorrectly applied.

The Colma Bay Area Rapid Transit station was shut down after a body was found on the tracks Tuesday Morning.

A man accused of stripping naked and harassing people while doing acrobatic moves at a BART station in San Francisco last month pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven felony and misdemeanor charges.

About 15 months ago, Paragon created the SF Demographics Analysis . These figures offer a look at who we are, how we live, what we do, and finally, how we rank.

For years, Barbara Stackhouse would go out every spring with her husband, Richard, to pick oranges from three big trees in her backyard in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood.

A motorcycle collision is blocking the three left lanes of U.S. Highway 101 in San Francisco this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.

In the biggest retail failure nationally this year, the Bay Area's Orchard Supply Hardware declared bankruptcy over the weekend, and looks like it's headed into the arms of an out-of-state big box chain.

A taxi driver choked and robbed a passenger in a dispute over a tip near San Francisco's Buena Vista Park early Sunday morning, a police spokesman said today.

Officials in San Francisco say a commuter train line shut down at rush hour as police had to talk down a man with a knife from an overpass.

A standoff between police and a man armed with a knife shut down Caltrain service in and out of San Francisco for one hour during the evening commute Monday, authorities said.

Caltrain service was shut down Monday evening as police talked a man with a knife down from a ledge near Caltrain's 22nd Street station in San Francisco, police and Caltrain officials said.

Edward Snowden's leaks, showing the massive scope of the National Security Agency's surveillance of phone and internet information, covers ground that previous whistleblowers have already trodden.

Yeiner Alberto Perez Garizabalo, 24, was taken into custody in San Francisco around noon by district attorney's investigators with help from immigration officials, said Alex Bastian , a district attorney spokesman.

Drinking will be done at Pier 27 this summer in San Francisco for the America's Cup races, where what is dubbed the "world's largest pop-up bar" will be set up, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

True foodinistas may be quick to say that pop-ups are so 2009, but the fact of the matter is that the nonstaurant scene in San Francisco is still going strong.

You don't have to travel far to taste the creativity that Itani cooks up in his kitchen at Hopscotch, 1915 San Pablo Ave. at 19th Street in Oakland.

The two 22-year-old men killed in a car crash Saturday were friends who grew up playing sports together, family members said Sunday.