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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.

There may be low morning clouds to cause flight delays at San Francisco International Airport, but the clouds won't stay long.

A mother and her 3-year-old child were killed and two others injured when a smoky one-alarm blaze swept through a home in San Francisco's Sunnydale housing project, authorities said.

Police in Northern California have made an arrest in the case of a body found inside a freezer at an auto body shop.

Bay Area apartment rents are rising at nearly double-digit annual rates and have reached record levels, according to a report released Tuesday, prompting some analysts to warn that the region's economic boom could be choked off by the relentless rise.

It follows another celebrity chef takeout spot - Wolfgang Puck Express - out the door, which shuttered in 2011.

At a time when so much attention is focused on the Bay Area's future, Emma Donoghue's new novel Frog Music , set in San Francisco at the tail end of the Gold Rush, looks far back into the city's early history.

The fire was reported at 4:42 p.m. at a building in the first block of Dolores Street near 14th Street.

Students who suggest worthwhile improvements to San Francisco's laws now have a chance to win a $1,000 scholarship and may see their ideas introduced to the city's Board of Supervisors.

Another week, another map showing broad generalizations about who in what part of America likes what kind of music.