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Newsom on Monday plans to propose a new parole board process that could clear a path for more prisoners to have their sentences shortened via a risk assessment investigation similar to the one currently underway for Erik and Lyle Menendez.
Mayor Matt Mahan’s proposal to jail people if they reject three offers of shelter is the latest salvo in an anti-encampment crusade sweeping the Bay Area.
Like many Bay Area cities, Fremont has invested generously in support services for homeless people. Last month, local leaders decided it’s time to be less welcoming.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie this week notched an early victory with the Board of Supervisors in his crusade against the city’s twin crises of homelessness and drug addiction.
California’s Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in fishing gear. With a truncated season and sharp limits on gear, crabbers wonder whether the fishery can survive.
San Francisco, joined by a coalition of jurisdictions, is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its threats to punish sanctuary cities that do not assist in immigration enforcement.
Levi Strauss heir and nonprofit executive Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco. He vowed a “new era of accountability, service and change.”
Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, who represented the East Bay in Congress for over two decades, announced plans to run for mayor of Oakland in a special election.
The wharf reopened to visitors and merchants less than two weeks after a dangerous storm’s crashing waves collapsed more than 100 feet of the pier into the ocean.
At least two people were reported killed and several more injured after a multiple-car collision on the westbound 134 Freeway in Pasadena, authorities said.
