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Early predictions for this year's Dungeness season were pretty much gloom and doom, but - happily for lovers of local crab - that doesn't seem to be case.

It was a most unusual sight at the Powell Street cable car turnaround in downtown San Francisco Saturday: City street sweepers had to hunt for scraps of litter.

The Planning Department released an ambitious set of proposals today to turn the blocks around the Transbay Terminal into a commercial and transportation centerpiece of the region over the next two decades.

A man suffered a gunshot wound to his hand in an apparent road rage shooting in San Francisco's Bayview District Thursday evening, a police spokeswoman said.

If you find yourself on the wrong side of relaxation, SeeTed might have a prescription for you.

Cable car service on Powell Street will be suspended until the start of regular service Sunday morning, according to a San Francisco Municipal Railway spokesman.

Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Occupation of Alcatraz Coit Tower Video Projection and KPOO Radio Broadcast November 25th and 26th 2009 Alcatraz Remembrance, Ohlone Presence: Indigenous Renewal What : A digital projection & live radio broadcast commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island in ...

Listed as a short sale for $595,000 , the Lower Pacific Heights single-family home at 2874 Bush Street sold for $675,000 in June of 2003.

Share + Nov 20, 2009 3:17 pm US/Pacific SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco's Embarcadero Center lights up for the holidays Friday during theA 23rd-annual building lighting ceremony.

A San Francisco defense attorney's private investigator was arrested Thursday for witness intimidation for allegedly telling a shooting victim and a lead prosecution witness in his attacker's case last month that he would be arrested if he showed up to court to testify.

Police arrested one 20-year-old woman Friday and are searching for another who they say robbed and fatally shot a San Francisco man at the Pittsburg marina earlier this month.

A judge's decision to move Johannes Mehserle's murder trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit police officer charged with gunning down an unarmed man on New Year's Day.

A recent Gallup poll found that 55 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the mass media.

Fifteen people were displaced by a three-alarm fire that damaged three residential buildings in San Francisco's Richmond District late this afternoon, a fire lieutenant said.

San Francisco isn't waiting for Washington, and that's got some lawmakers on Capitol Hill looking to the city as a model for national health care reform.

The Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport hotel successfully completed the American Hotel & Lodging Association Green Guidelines Challenge, in which more than 200 hotels across the country tracked and, in many cases, improved their green business operations via AH&LA's 11 Minimum Green Guidelines, released in November 2008 by the association's Green ...

I always love it when the San Francisco Jazz Festival travels across the Bay Bridge.

For the first time in nearly two years, the median price of Santa Clara County houses is higher than a year ago, a surprisingly strong signal that the battered housing market may be stabilizing.

This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program - seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise afford.

BART will offer $50 free ride tickets to members of the armed services on leave from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.