San Francisco News

Megan Goldsby came to KFBK from KCBS in San Francisco where she edited and wrote the news, along with reporting on Bay Area traffic.

"Seasteaders" want to populate the high seas with autonomous city-states on oil rig-like platforms.

San Mateo County leaders fought back Friday against a national campaign to defeat three tax measures that would raise nearly $13 million a year for county programs.

Facing $83 million in budget cutbacks from the cash-strapped state government, which could swell to $120 million if California voters fail to pass either of the tax increases being pushed by Governor Jerry Brown and education advocate Molly Munger , SFUSD has looked to decease its operating costs by shedding staff members.

Gov. Jerry Brown today will propose to fast-track the $69 billion high-speed rail project through the courts by easing legal scrutiny under the state's landmark environmental law.

CAL PERFORMANCES Afghan singer Ustad Farida Mahwash, third from right, joins the Homayoun Sakhi in a concert titled Voices of Afghanistan Saturday in Richmond.

San Francisco's new annual city budget will top $7 billion for the first time, a massive figure but one with merit, Mayor Ed Lee said Thursday.

Since becoming director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2002, Neal Benezra has pursued Robert Arneson's potent and controversy-laden bust of Mayor George Moscone, a beaming portrait of the slain politician that sits on a pedestal bearing bloody bullet holes, children's names and other details of his life and death.

It's no secret that you can drop a lot of cash seeing the sights of San Francisco.

Illegal immigrants will no longer have to fear losing their vehicles during routine traffic stops if a bill passed by the Assembly becomes law.

Suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and his wife Eliana Lopez responded sharply today to the release of a video in which a crying Lopez shows a bruise her husband allegedly left on her arm.

Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey is due in a San Francisco courtroom to face allegations of driving drunk while on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Inside the second floor auditorium of the Caltrain administrative offices, theA Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers BoardA listened to the questions and concerns of citizens over several potential changes.

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A man was killed by a train on the Caltrain tracks in San Mateo late Wednesday morning.

For Michael Winters, the revels are far from ended. In fact, they've only just begun.

Conductor David Robertson is music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony.

Two men have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in San Francisco's Western Addition earlier this month, a police spokesman said.

A taxi driver struck a man in the head with a tire iron during a dispute over cab fare in San Francisco early Wednesday morning, a police spokesman said.

A celebration of all Asian and Pacific Islander cultures, the goal of the Asian Heritage Street Celebration is to promote and foster Asian Pacific American identity by bringing together community andA encouraging the sharing of differences and appreciation of diversity.