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A San Francisco man is the latest to fall in a sprawling Bay Area insurance fraud probe, after a federal jury yesterday convicted Colin Jackson of helping rig a crash-and-cash scheme that prosecutors say bled auto insurers out of more than $1.5 million. The case is part of Operation Hammer...

SAN FRANCISCO - Traffic was closed to vehicles and pedestrians on a portion of Church Street in San Francisco's Mission District on Saturday after a tree fell onto power lines. What we know:. The downed tree caused the San Francisco Fire Department to close Church Street between Cesar Chavez Street...

One of the two Californians who were on board the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak has returned home and is staying in touch with public health officials for daily symptom monitoring. [Bay Area News Group]. Two top SF officials have been appointed to California’s High-Speed Rail...

Two Oakland police officers were dragged by a fleeing suspect's car near International Boulevard early Friday morning. The pinned officer opened fire, wounding the driver. Both officers have since been released from the hospital.

California's economic scoreboard just got a dramatic update, and the Bay Area is grabbing the spotlight. Federal and local data show that 16 California counties have seen their economies at least triple in size since 2001, with the biggest percentage leaps clustered around the Bay. The state's overall economy remains enormous, roughly $4 trillion in 2024, yet those statewide headline numbers hide a sharp...

Mayor Daniel Lurie is now using a handful of Marina sidewalk seats as his Exhibit A that City Hall’s permit overhaul is finally loosening up. Today, he pointed to a local bar that got the green light to add two tables and eight chairs outside after a quick sign-off, and said the city had also pulled a $2,500 fee off the books.

It’s fun to go to the theater and hear R&B in a musical. The knockout singers in the North American tour of “Hell’s Kitchen” now onstage in San Francisco thrillingly bring Alicia Keys’ solid songbook to life. It’s no surprise that the show, which premiered...

Two former chiefs of staff for San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will join the High-Speed Rail Authority Board for California’s long-gestating bullet train line.

Twelve miles north of San Francisco, a 554-acre forest grows on the western slope of Mount Tamalpais. The trees here stand taller than anything else alive on the planet. You walk in from a parking lot in Marin County and within minutes, the city disappears. Cool air hits your face, a creek runs beside you, and the canopy blocks out most of the...

The invisible force behind all of this is no mystery to anyone paying attention to the city's tech economy. San Francisco is home to some of the most valuable private companies in the world, and their employees have been quietly accumulating — and, increasingly, cashing out — fortunes.