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Councilor Albert Vecchia injected a little controversy over recycling into what was otherwise something of a routine Town Council meeting Monday.

Friends and family of a French national stabbed to death in San Francisco in 2007 are asking why an independent medical examiner's inquiry earlier this year that contradicted police findings was not released to the public.

A Burlingame man with eight DUIs still had a valid driver's license when he got his ninth in January because he apparently never hurt or killed anyone and many of his previous convictions were outside a 10-year cutoff period used by the Department of Motor Vehicles to assess drivers, a department official explained Monday.

Blog:Local: In Marin: 51599 : Rowers complete 6-month, 6,000+ mile row for a record Two British rowers who set out from Japan on May 8, 2009 to be the first to row more than 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, have just rowed under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the record books.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a liberal lawmaker from San Francisco, faced some wrenching political choices going into Saturday's vote on a health care reform bill.

A Sunday case described by police as a "suspicious death" at 106 Sixth Street has resulted in a murder arrest a 34-year-old woman, according to the District Attorney's office.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 on Tuesday to override the mayor's veto of a law that would relax the sanctuary city policy on when to report undocumented youth to immigration.

Nationally, the incidence of learning disabilities has been growing at a rate of 10-20% every 10 years since WWII.

La Colectiva de Mujeres in San Francisco has launched a media campaign unveiling striking posters, billboards, bus ads and postcards depicting domestic workers as strong, independent and "green" savvy.

Chrome Bags has undertaken a new initiative to further root themselves in the local bicycle community that affords them much of their customer base: using bicycle couriers to deliver bags in San Francisco.

The problem was reported at about 2:30 p.m. Muni spokesman Judson True said service on the Powell Street portion of the Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason cable car lines has been affected.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 11:52 am US/Pacific SAN FRANCISCO The California Highway Patrol stepped up its enforcement of the speed limit on the Bay Bridge Wednesday night andA Thursday morning in response to a series of accidents on the bridge's S-curve, including a dramatic crash Monday that killed a trucker from Hayward.

Late-night diners are a staple of life in any city, but if you're not a regular it can be hard to know which will be a hit and which a miss.

Twitter is moving on up! The company is moving headquarters this week. But not far -- it grabbed the top floor of a building on 795 Folsom Street in San Francisco's SoMA district, steps from its old office.

Larkin Street Youth Services announced today that it's a new fiscal sponsor of the 3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.

A recommendation on the most cost-effective way to protect two native species struggling to survive in the wetlands of Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica includes keeping an 18-hole golf course, according to a long-awaited report released Friday by San Francisco's Park and Recreation Department.

ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" TV show has launched an explosion of interest in ballroom dancing all over the country and some dancers are hoping the excitement will help them bring the ballroom of out of the closet.

Isaac Hudson of San Francisco was pronounced dead at the scene after his Ford Escort was struck at 12:08 a.m. Wednesday on Alemany Boulevard at Congdon Street, police said.

Traffic flows past the infamous Bay Bridge S-curve where a big rig packed with Asian pears drove off the span at 3:30 am Monday Nov.

The filing Monday came a little more than a month after the upscale company abruptly closed its satellite stores in Mill Valley and Carmel.