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Golden Gate Park's Hippie Hill is famous for the wafting aroma of marijuana just about any day of the week.

Boat Bella, a 42 foot sailboat, had its mast broken off after getting hooked on a channel marker while competing in a casual beer can boat race organized through the Sequoia Yacht Club.

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has named former interim East Palo Alto police Chief Federico Rocha as his new undersheriff.

No American architect is more legendary than Frank Lloyd Wright, and San Francisco has one of his most distinctive urban buildings: 140 Maiden Lane, a shop from 1949 that combines a cliff-like brick exterior with a retail space wrapped in a ramp that predates his Guggenheim Museum.

The Federal Trade Commission is honoring Assistant United States Attorneys Hallie Mitchell Hoffman and Kyle F. Waldinger with its Criminal Liaison Unit's Prosecuting Attorney's Award for their work in combatting consumer fraud.

Easter is just around the corner. If you are looking to out source the fun, and cut down on the chance of finding a wayward egg under the couch three months from now, make your way to the Union Street Easter Parade and Spring Celebration.

The San Francisco Police Department took over as the lead agency investigating the case of a teenage girl who was allegedly kidnapped in the city and found naked and pepper sprayed on a Berkeley street.

San Francisco leaders break ground on the Florence Fang Asian Community Garden. Left to right: Supervisor Malia Cohen, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, SF Environment Commission President Josh Arce, 100,000 Strong Foundation Board of Director Florence Fang, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and AsianWeek Foundation Executive Director ... (more)

The 108th anniversary of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire will be noted Friday with a series of downtown events planned to begin before dawn.

A couple weeks before Passover, Congregation B'nai Emunah hosted an event focusing on the grave issue of human trafficking, or modern slavery.

San Francisco officials today painted two fire hydrants silver that were crucial to putting out fires that raged in the city's Western Addition neighborhood following the 1906 earthquake.

A 16-year-old boy allegedly killed by a 30-year-old Richmond woman had fathered a child with her and reportedly had a spat with her about his new girlfriend just moments before he was killed, a prosecutor said Thursday.

The 57th San Francisco International Film Festival, which opens next week. will include features, shorts and documentaries with Jewish content.

FILE This Sept. 6, 2011 file photo shows Attorney Charles Cooper speaking in a courtroom during a California State Supreme Court hearing in San Francisco.

"Hundreds" of elderly women descended on a San Francisco Walgreens on Tuesday to do battle over deeply-discounted eggs, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

In the heart of the tech boom, where new innovations always hold the promise of the perfect solution, a new private school in San Francisco is prototyping its first class this year.

The Contra Costa Times reports Melinda Gaffney turned herself in at San Francisco police headquarters Monday morning.

For rent and utilities to be considered affordable, they are supposed to take up no more than 30 percent of a household's income.

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