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Officials in San Francisco say a commuter train line shut down at rush hour as police had to talk down a man with a knife from an overpass.

A standoff between police and a man armed with a knife shut down Caltrain service in and out of San Francisco for one hour during the evening commute Monday, authorities said.

Caltrain service was shut down Monday evening as police talked a man with a knife down from a ledge near Caltrain's 22nd Street station in San Francisco, police and Caltrain officials said.

Edward Snowden's leaks, showing the massive scope of the National Security Agency's surveillance of phone and internet information, covers ground that previous whistleblowers have already trodden.

Yeiner Alberto Perez Garizabalo, 24, was taken into custody in San Francisco around noon by district attorney's investigators with help from immigration officials, said Alex Bastian , a district attorney spokesman.

Drinking will be done at Pier 27 this summer in San Francisco for the America's Cup races, where what is dubbed the "world's largest pop-up bar" will be set up, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

True foodinistas may be quick to say that pop-ups are so 2009, but the fact of the matter is that the nonstaurant scene in San Francisco is still going strong.

You don't have to travel far to taste the creativity that Itani cooks up in his kitchen at Hopscotch, 1915 San Pablo Ave. at 19th Street in Oakland.

The two 22-year-old men killed in a car crash Saturday were friends who grew up playing sports together, family members said Sunday.

While controversy continues over construction of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a group of legislators is working on a new name for the western portion.

San Francisco has one of the hottest food scenes in the US - here are 10 of the top places to snag a table on your next visit, from a creative take on Chinese cuisine to a super-hip bakery and the best spots to sample some Mexican favourites.

KPFA EVENING NEWS, 06.15.2013: Occupiers attempted to save San Francisco's Hayes Valley Farm, renamed Gezi Gardens to invoke the battle for green space in Istanbul, Turkey, but police raided it this week to make way for condo development, in the early morning hours of June 13th.

A washed-out and washed-up county road is about to be remade into a new, $5.5 million regional shoreline trail along the scenic Carquinez Strait, linking Central and West Contra Costa County.

The cities of San Francisco and Zurich , Switzerland just celebrated the tenth anniversary of being Sister Cities, and the relationship is a good.

In San Francisco, the famously kind-to-criminals sanctuary city has released a naked illegal alien who attacked several people in a BART station.

The family of a missing teenager who recently suffered a traumatic brain injury continued their search for him Saturday in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the teen's mother said.

LGBT activists plan to either party in the streets or mobilize protests on the day the U.S. Supreme Court issues its ruling in the Proposition 8 case.

Legislation tucked into the state budget bill would "eviscerate" the public's ability to track tax dollars and hold local officials accountable, open government advocates charged Friday.

San Francisco was named Most Romantic City in North America by MissTravel.com Find out who else made the list on SFWeekly's Exhibitionist .

Living in Marin, I spend a lot of Sundays along the coast: near Sausalito or at Muir Beach or somewhere around Tomales Bay or Point Reyes.