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The executive director of a state pilot commission in San Francisco confirmed today that John Cota, pilot of a ship that spilled nearly 54,000 gallons of oil in the San Francisco Bay last year, will retire as ...

A US citizen has been released from a jail in China after serving 10 years of a 16-year term for violating tax laws, a US official and rights groups said on Thursday.

In an effort to combat the city's youth violence, San Francisco has launched a new campaign in hopes to reduce city crime.

When San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi ascended to speaker of the House 18 months ago, liberals cheered.

Charismatic and politically bold, both San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa seem like naturals to help Democrats reclaim the governor's office in 2010.

Police arrested 12 people in two undercover robbery abatement operations in the past week targeting crime in the city's Tenderloin district and Market Street corridor, police announced Wednesday.

The crash occurred in the area of Monterey Boulevard and Saint Elmo Way, police said.

A man was injured in San Francisco early Saturday morning when a firework went off inside the car he was in, police said.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has issued an executive directive to all city agencies, telling them to stop wasting water.

Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously.

Officials from the Bay Area's three largest cities are hoping to avoid mandatory water rationing by getting people to voluntarily cut their water use.

To run its parks and recreation department, Belmont has turned to a local who grew up with one of the nation's great urban parks as his back yard.

Police are searching today for a 77-year-old woman in the early stages of dementia who has been missing since she left her San Francisco home Tuesday morning.

American rock band The Grateful Dead poses on Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California, 1960s.

The attorney for a suspected gang member accused in the June 22 slaying of a San Francisco father and two of his sons today said he would ask to be removed from the case, citing a conflict.

A civil grand jury report released Thursday claims that inadequate elections facilities in San Francisco, as well as uncertainty about the city's new elections machines state certification, may compromise the ...

Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday.

Under a loophole in the city's sanctuary policy for illegal immigrants, minors who committed crimes were being flown home or housed at the city's expense, Newsom said.

But now, 'if you commit a felony, we will not become a safe harbor for you,' he said.

The former policy came under fire last month after five young drug offenders from Honduras who were convicted in San Francisco escaped from a San Bernardino County group home where they had been sent by the city's juvenile probation department.

Less than a week before a fire damaged an ABX Air cargo plane at San Francisco International Airport, the airline received a threat against an unspecified aircraft, the National Transportation Safety Board ...

Transit officials will step up service with dozens of shuttles this Fourth of July for the thousands of attendees expected at the San Francisco Independence Day fireworks show, according to the San Francisco ...

San Bernardino County officials, incensed over revelations that San Francisco has sent to local group homes some convicted juvenile offenders who are illegal immigrants, said they will announce measures today ...