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Immigration advocates are filing suit against the federal government, saying immigration officials are violating their own rules by failing to provide a speedy hearing to some immigrants who face deportation.

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.

It won't fit in your pocket or play on your smartphone. You can't download it, stream it or store it in a cloud file.

If you have visited Dolores Park in the past two weeks, you will have noticed the substantial overcrowding due to half of the park being officially closed for renovations starting March 12. The popular Mission District park is in the first phase of a two-part, $13.2 million makeover that is scheduled to finish by spring 2015.

The presidential search ended last week with the Board of Trustees voting unanimously to elect the Reverend Paul J. Fitzgerald S.J. as the 28th president of the University of San Francisco.

A San Mateo native who for years worked for her hometown transit service in San Mateo County was the bus driver killed Thursday in the horrific crash in Orland that claimed 10 lives.

Nidra Stubbs, 31, of San Francisco, entered a not guilty plea to the charges of felony hit-and-run and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter before San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Shulman.

The case of a former Stanford graduate student barred from returning to the United States since 2005 has taken another twist with a U.S. consulate's decision this week to deny her a visa because of "terrorist activities" - after the government told a federal judge that she posed no threat to national security.

Fish and Game Commission to consider listing the gray wolf as an endangered species after appearance of a lone member of the species entered Northern California for first time since 1920s.