JANE WARNER MEMORIAL PLAZA — San Francisco’s nude activists got naked again Saturday afternoon to celebrate International Women’s Day, and put the city on notice that their federal lawsuit will go forward at last. Photos by Gabriella Gamboa/SFBay…
Death penalty opponents are speaking out against a proposed reform initiative sponsored by three former California governors. The death penalty reform initiative, sponsored by former California Govs. George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis, will…
Smartphone makers may be forced to put a ‘kill switch’ into production by January 2015 or face fines up to $2,500 for each phone sold and shipped in California without the technology thanks to a new bill introduced last week by California lawmakers…
Work went so smoothly on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge that it opened to traffic earlier than expected Monday night, delighting the first drivers to cross the span. Rumors swirled all weekend that the bridge would be open to traffic sooner that…
Watch a video of one of the first passengers crossing the new span of the Bay Bridge, uploaded by YouTube user Hunter Brown on September 3, 2013:
Scam artists posing as animal control officers on the hunt for poisonous snakes have struck again — this time in Napa County. Sheriff’s officials said an American Canyon residence was ripped off Friday evening after a man and woman knocked on the…
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Marin County Parks is spearheading a project that has volunteers donating their weekends to reviving 110 acres of Kent Island and Bolinas Lagoon. The next phase is to strip nonnative plants — which have largely displaced native vegetation — and restore the natural habitat that has been disrupted…
California’s homeless “bill of rights” is one step closer to a full vote after being passed by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, would allow homeless people in California to legally sit, sleep and ask for donations…
