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The Golden Gate Restaurant Association says San Francisco's rules on business chains need to be more flexible and are citing the El Farolito case as a prime example as to why.

Hundreds of students from throughout the Bay Area marched up Market Street in San Francisco in the hopes of bringing attention to the environmental crisis. It's a cause they say is far more important than a day in the classroom.

A Palo Alto woman has been blamed for allegedly sparking the Fawn Fire in Shasta County, authorities said.

The city of San Jose and the union representing its police department are in ongoing negotiations to avert a serious shortage of officers. Nearly 150 officers have said they won't comply with the city's new vaccine mandate.

So far this year, someone has launched ball bearings "at potentially lethal" speeds into windows at least 20 times, resulting in more than $500,000 in damages, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

Former Secretary of Defense General James Mattis took the witness stand Wednesday in the federal fraud case against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes.

Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking playwright, musician and movie director whose work ushered in the “Blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s, has died. He was 89. His family confirmed that he passed at his Manhattan home.

Many retired educators in California are finding retirement far less comfortable than they had assumed. That's because by law, they aren't allowed to collect Social Security benefits, though many have paid into the system.

Lisa Chavez says Robert Herron found a way to help others despite his own struggles. In her words, he was a success story with a sad ending. He was one of 100 people killed in Oakland this year.

Evacuations were ordered for a structure fire in Petaluma on Tuesday that also spread to nearby vegetation.

Firefighters in San Leandro faced added danger on Tuesday as they tried to put out a house fire.