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A recent Gallup poll found that 55 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the mass media.

Fifteen people were displaced by a three-alarm fire that damaged three residential buildings in San Francisco's Richmond District late this afternoon, a fire lieutenant said.

San Francisco isn't waiting for Washington, and that's got some lawmakers on Capitol Hill looking to the city as a model for national health care reform.

The Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport hotel successfully completed the American Hotel & Lodging Association Green Guidelines Challenge, in which more than 200 hotels across the country tracked and, in many cases, improved their green business operations via AH&LA's 11 Minimum Green Guidelines, released in November 2008 by the association's Green ...

I always love it when the San Francisco Jazz Festival travels across the Bay Bridge.

For the first time in nearly two years, the median price of Santa Clara County houses is higher than a year ago, a surprisingly strong signal that the battered housing market may be stabilizing.

This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program - seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise afford.

BART will offer $50 free ride tickets to members of the armed services on leave from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In August, San Francisco supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom agreed on a $6.6 billion budget that closed a $575 million deficit.

Women are making "no progress" cracking the executive glass ceiling in California, according to a just-released study by the University of California, Davis.

Mystic Family Circus presents ANCESTOR'S WISDOM: ancient messages for modern times.

A truck passes through the San Mateo Bridge toll booth in Hayward, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov.

A sexual spark could be driving an arsonist who is setting car fires in the East Bay.

The mayor's budget chief is expected to announce today that the projected deficit for the next fiscal year teeters near $500 million - a more ominous outlook than had been revealed Monday.

So far, Capt. Jackie Smith of the Salvation Army in Antioch has only three turkeys to give out to the nearly 90 families who have requested Thanksgiving food baskets this year, invoking biblical images of feeding multitudes with a mere handful of loaves and fishes.

The film La Mission, with Benjamin Bratt, include scenes filmed inside and outside the house.

State inspectors say an oil spill that sent hundreds of gallons of bunker oil into San Francisco Bay was caused by a fuel tank that overflowed during a morning refueling stop.

If you were to compile a list of threats to San Francisco's public safety, Oscar Martinez probably wouldn't make the cut. The quiet 15-year-old soccer player with a peach-fuzz mustache and adolescent slouch has a demeanor so laid-back it borders on spacey. He admits he gets mediocre grades, he forgets to do his homework, and is often late to class because he has trouble rolling out of bed. So when Martinez says there's an explanation for how another kid's long foldup knife ended up in his backpack at middle school last year, you might believe he wasn't intending any harm. Not that that matters much now.

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley says she has agreed to state Attorney General Jerry Brown's request that her office investigate the secret taping of conversations with reporters by Brown's former communications director.

Travelers prepare their luggage before checking into a flight at San Francisco International Airport December 23, 2008 in San Francisco, California DALLAS a ' It could cost you even more to travel next spring and summer.